Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify industry structure, occupations, job roles and work conditions.
- Describe the scope and nature of the construction industry and its national economic importance.
- Describe construction job roles, occupations and trade callings of the construction industry and relate them to direct and indirect employment opportunities.
- Identify and evaluate trends in technology, work processes and environmental issues that are likely to impact on the construction industry in terms of employment options.
- Describe construction employment conditions, organisational requirements, responsibilities and duties and how they relate to jobs and career paths.
- Describe safe work methods and practices that meet Australian government and relevant state/territory work health and safety (WHS) legislative requirements, including use of personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Take responsibility for own workload.
- Plan work activities and establish priorities and deadlines with work group members and communicate them to others whose own work plans and timelines may be affected.
- Identify variations and difficulties effecting performance or quality requirements of own work and report these issues to appropriate personnel using appropriate communication techniques.
- Request additional support, from appropriate personnel, needed to achieve or improve work outcomes or quality.
- Work in a team.
- Identify site goals and the contributions made by teams to a construction activity.
- Identify individual contributions to team activities and confirm them with others in the team.
- Provide assistance and encouragement to other team members wishing to perform or enhance their role and the role of the team.
- Initiate team improvements and encourage other team members to do the same.
- Refer causes of disharmony and other barriers to achievement to the appropriate party for resolution.
- Identify own development needs.
- Identify the skills and knowledge necessary to work effectively in the construction industry.
- Consult with appropriate personnel to determine own learning needs for future work requirements.
- Determine and evaluate appropriate opportunities to learn and develop required skills and knowledge for future construction industry work opportunities.
- Identify current workplace resource use and opportunities to improve resource efficiency.
- Identify and describe workplace environmental and resource efficiency issues and the resources used in own work role.
- Identify and report work site environmental hazards relating to the use of resources.
- Follow enterprise plans to improve environmental practices and resource-use efficiency.
- Make suggestions for improvements to workplace practices in own work area.
- Report breaches of workplace environmental practices.