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VET Building and Construction

Unit 1 & 2 VET Building and Construction students have begun their studies by learning about safety in the building and construction industry. The unit focuses on Workplace Health & Safety regulations, the correct use of PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) and the hierarchy of controls when dealing with work place hazards. Students will be required to sit an exam to gain their White Card qualification and complete the first official documentation for the course. Students have also completed their first practical task by creating a container for an Oil Sharpening Stone.

Unit 3 & 4 students have continued on from last year by finishing off their concreting task near the Hall. Students were required to excavate the site and create the form work required to lay the concrete. They had to work together using a range of measurement skills in a real world context and developed their practical skills in forming and levelling concrete forms. They have already completed a unit of work learning about the use of “Platforms” in the industry. The focus of this unit was about how to correctly identify what sort of platform was needed to complete any given task when working at height.

This Unit has both theoretical and practical components with the student’s first learning about all aspects of safety concerning equipment such as ladders, trestle’s and scaffolding. The practical assessment involved students being given both verbal and visual instruction to constructing a particular configuration of scaffold using the equipment provided. The students are able to demonstrate their learning from the theory component and apply it in a practical context, reinforcing their knowledge and understanding of the unit of work and further developing their skills.

Mr D. Cardona

VET Building and Construction Teacher, Cranbourne Campus