Course structure

• Apply health and safety to a work area.
• Apply quality principles on a construction site.
• Establish and prepare a work area.
• Handle, transport, store and utilize hazardous materials on a civil construction site.
• Identify describe and use materials in civil engineering construction.
• Implement roadside safety procedures.
• Maintain records on a construction site.
• Render basic first aid.
• Work in confined spaces on construction sites.
• Calculate construction quantities to develop a work plan.
• Interpret the composition, construction sequence and processes of the construction industry.
• Procure materials, tools and equipment.
• Read and interpret construction drawings and specifications.
• Access and use information from texts.
• Maintain and adapt oral communication.
• Use language and communication in occupational learning programmes.
• Write for a defined context.
• Accommodate audience and context needs in oral communication.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the use of different number bases and measurement units and an awareness of error in the context of relevant calculations.
• Describe, apply, analyze and calculate shape and motion in 2-and 3-dimensional space in different contexts.
• Interpret and use information from texts.
• Investigate life and work related problems using data and probabilities.
• Use language and communication in occupational learning programmes.
• Use mathematics to investigate and monitor the financial aspects of personal, business and national issues.
• Write texts for a range of communicative contexts.
• Develop and use keyboard skills to enter text.
• Conduct a bituminous seal operation.
• Erect and maintain guardrails on a road construction site.
• Install manholes and chambers on a civil construction site.
• Install precast concrete pipes.
• Install road studs.
• Maintain and repair bituminous road surfaces.
• Operate a personal computer system.
• Set out control point for center line and edge line marking for road marking.
• Construct precast kerbs and concrete channels on a roadworks construction site.
• Erect directional signs overhead < 10 m2.
• Erect fencing.
• Erect palisade fencing.
• Organize and control the compaction of hot mix asphalt.
• Plan to conduct, repair and maintain work on un-surfaced road shoulders.
• Demonstrate an understanding and implement environmental initiatives on a construction project.