mechanical rail signalling equipment and infrastructure maintenance requirements and techniques, safe working practices and relevant standards, codes and regulations, including: basic rail operations encompassing: rail terminology train dynamics essentials of safe movement of trains purpose of rail signalling rail signalling, regulations and codes encompassing: codes - philosophy and format how to read and apply a code codes that apply to rail signalling - relevant to a rail network technical manuals and catalogues encompassing: typical format how to read and apply information environmental and heritage awareness encompassing: purpose of environmental and heritage regulation typical issues affecting electrotechnology services and systems meeting requirements enterprise work activities records encompassing: purpose and extent of maintaining work activities records in an enterprise types of records for maintaining work activities in an enterprise methods for recording and maintaining work records work records required by regulation requirements electrical safe working practices encompassing: risk management and assessment of risk principle and purpose of risk management processes for conducting a risk assessment hazards associated with low voltage (LV), extra-low voltage (ELV) and high currents arrangement of power distribution and circuits in an electrical installation parts of an electrical system and equipment that operate at LV and ELV parts of an electrical system and equipment where high currents are likely safety, selection, use, maintenance and care of test equipment safety characteristics of electrical testing devices safe use of electrical testing device checks and storage methods for maintaining the safety of testing devices rail safe working practices encompassing: rail enterprise safety standards and procedures rail safe working requirements possessions protection and management rail signalling, drawings and diagrams drawing types and applications encompassing: drawing layouts and conventions drawing symbols cable and equipment schedules rail signalling principles - mechanical encompassing: overview of mechanical rail signalling purpose of elements of a mechanical rail signalling system - signals, point actuating systems, locking and train detection systems, control input devices, indicators, diagrams and monitors, interlocking and safe working systems rail signalling - mechanical equipment encompassing: equipment and their components operating principles servicing procedures rail signalling - point actuating devices encompassing: equipment and their components - point machines, detectors, claw/clamp locks, swing nose mechanisms and in-bearer mechanisms operating principles servicing procedures rail signalling - interlocking systems - mechanical encompassing: equipment and their components operating principles and parameters servicing procedures rail signalling - electro-pneumatic equipment encompassing: equipment and their components - compressors, air lines and control valves operating principles and parameters servicing procedures safe working practices and relevant standards, codes and regulations relevant manufacturer specifications relevant WHS/OHS legislated requirements relevant workplace documentation relevant workplace policies and procedures. |