Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan and prepare to erect and dismantle formwork for footings and slabs on ground.
- Review and clarify task to erect and dismantle formwork for footings and slabs on ground.
- Assess work site to determine scope of work.
- Review design of footing and/or slab on ground from job drawings and specifications, and check to make sure it is in accordance with legislation, regulations and codes of practice.
- Review work health and safety (WHS) requirements for the task in accordance with safety plans and policies.
- Identify safety signage and barricade requirements.
- Review environmental requirements for the task in accordance with environmental plans and legislative requirements.
- Select plant, tools and equipment, check for serviceability and rectify or report any faults.
- Erect formwork for footings and slabs on ground.
- Erect identified safety signage and barricades, and fit personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Set out formwork to requirements of drawings and specifications.
- Select fixings and fasteners.
- Construct and erect formwork shutters and/or edge boxing.
- Brace formwork support.
- Install block-outs and cast-in services to specified locations.
- Dismantle formwork for footings and slabs on ground.
- Remove edge boxing and bracing/strutting support sequentially and safely.
- De-nail, clean and store or stack timber components safely for re-use or removal from site.
- Clean and oil steel components, then store or stack to manufacturers’ specifications.
- Discard damaged formwork components safely after stripping.
- Clean up after dismantling formwork for footings and slabs on ground.