Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine job requirements
- Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
- Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
- Identify job requirements from specifications, drawings, job sheets or work instructions
- Interpret welding terms and symbols correctly
- Determine the effects of heat treatment on metal in relation to welding
- Apply processes, including pre-heat/post-heat treatment, stress relieving, normalising and annealing, where appropriate
- Plan the logical sequence of welding operations
- Apply principles of planning and setting up welding
- Prepare welds for testing, where specified