This unit of competency specifies the outcomes required to erect and dismantle slip form formwork to form wall structures where the formwork process is continuous. It includes curved or straight slip form formwork.

Unit details

Study level:
Vocational and further education (TAFE)
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Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines. Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills: - communication skills to: determine requirements; enable clear and direct communication, using questioning to identify and confirm requirements, share information, listen and understand; follow instructions; - read and interpret: documentation from a variety of sources; plans, specifications and drawings; - report faults; - use language and concepts appropriate to cultural differences; - use and interpret non-verbal communication, such as hand signals; - numeracy skills to apply measurements and make calculations; - organisational skills, including the ability to plan and set out work; - teamwork skills to work with others to action tasks and relate to people from a range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds and with varying physical and mental abilities, and; - use a range of mobile technology, such as two-way radio and mobile phones; voice and hand signals to access and understand site-specific instructions.Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge: - common formwork faults, problems and suitable rectifications; - concrete properties; - construction terminology; - electrical/hydraulic jacking systems; - formwork materials and techniques; - hydraulic pressures applied to formwork; - job safety analysis (JSA) and safe work method statements; - material safety data sheets (MSDS); - materials storage and environmentally friendly waste management; - plans, specifications and drawings; - plant, tools and equipment types, characteristics, uses and limitation; - processes for the calculation of material requirements; - quality requirements for slip form formwork, and; - workplace and equipment safety requirements.

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