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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for paving project
   • Clarify the requirements of the paving project
   • Select and use tools, equipment and machinery and check for serviceability
   • Identify workplace health and safety hazards, assess risks and implement controls
   • Identify and ameliorate environmental impacts of proposed works
   • Select, use and maintain personal protective equipment (PPE)
   • Organise delivery of materials to site according to workplace priorities
2. Set out and prepare the site
   • Erect site bunting, control pedestrian access and place safety signage
   • Locate services
   • Make provision for irrigation lines to cross paved areas
   • Mark out the paving pattern according to plans and specifications
   • Place and compact sub-base material to the required finished levels
   • Incorporate surface drainage as specified
3. Implement paving project
   • Construct paving
   • Install appropriate drainage
   • Use tools, equipment and machinery safety in accordance with enterprise safe operating procedures and work health and safety requirements
4. Check quality of work and clean-up site
   • Inspect the quality of finished works to ensure they have met the required drawings and specifications standards
   • Clean work-site and dispose of debris in an environmentally safe and sensitive manner
   • Clean, maintain and store tools and equipment

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must be assessed on their ability to integrate and apply the performance requirements of this unit in a workplace setting. Performance must be demonstrated consistently over time and in a suitable range of contexts.

The candidate must provide evidence that they can:

determine project requirements from plans

calculate material and resource requirements

organise work and use tools and equipment

use tools and equipment to construct paving

clean up, store and maintain tools, machinery and equipment

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

the principles and practices of paving

landscape paving materials

methods and practices for maintaining and repairing paved areas

methods of work schedule programming

set-out techniques

the range and use of required materials, equipment and machinery

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