Fundamental Skills for Construction Health and Safety
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Fundamental Skills for Construction Health and Safety

This course equips learners with essential skills to navigate the complexities of health and safety regulations, focusing on practical applications such as permit requirements for various work scenarios, effective communication strategies, and critical reading and writing techniques tailored for diverse audiences and contexts.
Agricultural Unit Standards

120359 – Permit to Work Requirements

This unit standard will enable the learner to describe the requirements applicable to a permit to work in terms of hot work; cold work; confined space entry and lockout systems in a work area.

Persons accredited with this unit standard will be able to:

  • Describe the requirements for hot and cold work permits.
  • Describe the requirements to apply a lock-out system.
  • Describe the requirements to apply a confined space entry permit.

119472 – Oral/Signed Communication

Learners at this level are aware of their audiences and purposes for communication. They adapt their style and language register to different situations and are able to listen and speak/sign confidently in both formal and familiar settings.

Persons credited with this unit standard are able to:

  • Interact successfully in oral/signed communication
  • Use strategies that capture and retain the interest of an audience
  • Identify and respond to manipulative use of language

119457 – Reading and Viewing for Understanding

Learners at this level are able to read and view a variety of text types with understanding and justify their views with evidence. They evaluate the effectiveness of texts for different audiences and purposes using analysis criteria.

Learners credited with this unit standard are able to:

  • Use a range of reading and viewing strategies to understand the literal meaning of specific texts
  • Use strategies for extracting implicit messages in texts
  • Respond to selected texts in a manner appropriate to the context
  • Explore and explain how language structures and features may influence a reader/viewer

119467 – Learning Strategies and Context

This unit standard is designed to help learners cope with learning in learnerships, skills programmes, and similar contexts, especially for adults returning to learning.

Persons credited with this unit standard are able to:

  • Access and use suitable learning resources
  • Use learning strategies
  • Manage occupational learning program materials
  • Conduct basic research, analyse and present findings
  • Function in a team
  • Reflect on how characteristics of the workplace and occupational context affect learning

119465 – Writing for Purpose and Audience

Learners at this level write or present texts with complex subject matter using appropriate levels of formality. They select style, content and structure to suit the purpose, audience and context.

Learners credited with this unit standard are able to:

  • Write/sign for a specified audience and purpose
  • Use language structures and features to produce coherent and cohesive texts for a wide range of contexts
  • Draft own writing/signing and edit to improve clarity and correctness
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