VU22099 - Recognise and interpret safety signs and symbols

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Unit code: VU22099 | Study level: TAFE
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Footscray Nicholson
Footscray Park
St Albans
Sunshine
Werribee
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge to recognise and interpret safety signs and symbols commonly found in workplace and community settings.

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:

  • literacy skills to identify and interpret key words regularly used in common safety signs and symbols;
  • numeracy skills to recognise and interpret the meaning of shapes in safety signage, and;
  • problem solving skills to distinguish between different types of commonly used safety signs and symbols using shapes, colours and words.

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.

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