Skills Proficiency awards in Basic Fabrication ... - City & Guilds

1.6 Types and applications of lifting aids and accessories.
Lifting aids: block and tackle, pull lifts, rope, wire and chain slings, lifting
clamps and dogs, eyebolts and shackles, jacks, trestles and stands
1.7 Dangers of using faulty/misusing lifting aids and techniques.
Dangers: knots in slings, damaged slings, loads with sharp corners, loose
and swinging loads, wrapped and greased loads, handling materials under
adverse conditions
1.8 Precautions to be taken when transporting/using ladders.
1.9 Dangers associated with the use of electrical equipment.
Dangers: electric shock, fire, damaged equipment, explosion
1.10 How the human body can become part of an electrical circuit.
1.11 Procedure to be adopted when a person is in contact with a live single phase
electrical supply.
1.12 Types and applications of firefighting equipment.
Firefighting equipment: extinguishers (ie water, powder, foam, gas,
vaporizing liquid), sand/water bucket, fire blanket, water hose
1.13 Purpose of evacuation procedures.
Procedures: fire drills, escape routes, assembly points
Materials
1.14 Basic properties of engineering materials.
Properties: ductility, malleability, strength (ie compression, tension, shear),
elasticity, toughness, brittleness, hardness, electrical and heat conductivity,
machinability
Materials: carbon steels, cast irons, aluminium, copper, brass, austenitic
stainless steel
Hand and Machine Tools
1.15 Basic hand tools and their uses.
Hand tools: vices, .les, hammers, chisels, screwdrivers, pliers, wire cutters,
punches, drifts
1.16 Defects in the hand tools mentioned in 1.15 and methods of rectification.
1.17 Effects of pitch and set of hacksaw blade teeth and the point angle of chisels.
1.18 Angles of wedge-shaped cutting tools, their terminology and meaning.
22 Skills Proficiency awards in Basic Fabrication, Welding and Pipework