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

Skills Proficiency Certificate (Basic Fabrication,
Welding and Pipework)
Introduction
The aim of this module is to enable the candidate to:
a maintain safe working conditions
b mark out, cut to size, hole, bend and assemble, plate, sections of tube
c develop patterns
d lift and move loads, use scaffold platforms and ladders
e join metal by soldering and welding
f cut metal by the oxy-fuel gas process
g carry out the inspection and testing of welds and identify possible causes of defects
h produce pipelines and pipe branches
i construct curves of intersection and surface developments
j extract details from drawings and prepare working sketches.
The use of national/local regulations and working practices must be included in all
practical competences.
Practical competences
The candidate must be able to do the following:
Health and Safety
2.1 Select, use, clean and store personal safety equipment.
2.2 Carry out safe working practices to prevent hazards and to ensure the safety of
working personnel and members of the public.
2.3 Use and store materials in a safe manner.
2.4 Apply good housekeeping practices at all times.
Practices: eg clean tidy work areas, removal/disposal of waste products, no
overhanging sharp edges, no unmarked hot objects left on bench, gangways
free from obstruction
Fabrication
2.5 Use measuring and marking out equipment appropriate to fabrication, welding
and pipework.
Equipment: scriber, straight edge, chalk and chalk line, dividers, trammels,
engineers and flat squares, hammers, punches, tapes, flange and web gauges,
backmark gauges
2.6 Mark out
a squares, rectangles; checking cross corners for accuracy
b circles, arcs
c shapes, tangents
d pipes, flanges
e simple structural details including back marks, cross centres, edge distances.
2.7 Produce and use templates.
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