Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan and prepare to finish concrete.
- Review and clarify task to finish concrete.
- Review task specifications and check to make sure they are 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.
- Apply concrete finishing techniques.
- Erect identified safety signage and barricades, and fit personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Leave concrete untouched until bleed water has come to the surface and evaporated.
- Assess surface of concrete during curing process and maintain level surface to allow manual and mechanical trowelling to be applied.
- Assess strength of setting concrete using a basic thumb test to ensure weight of mechanical trowel and operator can be accommodated.
- Apply mechanical trowelling in multiple overlapping lines to consolidate and densify the setting concrete surface.
- Install control joints, finish edges, and trowel concrete to specifications.
- Finish concrete in accordance with job specifications.
- Clean up after finishing concrete.