VU20971 - Carpentry hand tools
Overview
The purpose of this module is to provide the participant with the skills and knowledge to select, use and maintain hand tools and equipment used in the carpentry industry.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
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:
- work safely and effectively as an individual and as part of a team;
- communicate effectively by questioning, sharing information and listening;
- select appropriate tools to use with carpentry materials;
- handle/hold materials while using hand tools, and;
- safely and effectively use carpentry hand tools.
Required reading
The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.
As part of a course
This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.