VU21796 - Use basic electric welding equipment and techniques
Overview
This unit specifies the competency required to use a range of electric welding tools and techniques as part of a variety of plumbing jobs and in accordance with job, organisational and legal requirements.
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:
- speaking and listening, including when using basic electric welding equipment and techniques and when receiving and confirming task instructions and requirements;
- reading and interpreting documents, drawings and specifications;
- secure and brace materials;
- identify distortions and defects;
- clean welds and cuts;
- plan and organise work including to obtain work instructions and sequence tasks;
- use and maintain tools and equipment effectively and safely;
- commission equipment in accordance with manufacturers’ instructions;
- power up and shut down equipment, and;
- work cooperatively as a team member.
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.