Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for work.
- Work instructions, including plans, specifications, quality requirements and operational details, are obtained, confirmed and applied from relevant information to determine bricklaying and blocklaying tasks.
- Safety (OHS) requirements are followed in accordance with safety plans and policies.
- Signage and barricade requirements are identified and implemented.
- Plant, tools and equipment selected to carry out tasks are consistent with job requirements, checked for serviceability, and any faults are rectified or reported prior to commencement.
- Material quantity requirements are calculated in accordance with plans, specifications and quality requirements.
- Materials appropriate to the work application are identified, obtained, prepared, safely handled and located ready for use.
- Environmental requirements are identified for the project in accordance with environmental plans and statutory and regulatory authority obligations, and are applied.
- Set out brickwork/ blockwork.
- Work platform is erected in accordance with regulatory and workplace requirements and brick and block stair construction requirements.
- Location and relative level of prepared footing are checked from job drawings and specifications.
- Rise and going of flight and individual steps are calculated to codes and workplace requirements.
- Flight and individual steps are set out from calculations and job drawings.
- Lay bricks/blocks forming steps and wing walls.
- Mortar mix is prepared and checked for conformity and bricks/blocks are laid to set out according to specifications, standards and codes.
- Base brickwork is constructed to specifications and requirements of standards and codes.
- Steps are formed square, level, plumb and true and laid to specified bond.
- Profile of steps is constructed to bond and design, aligned and plumb to specifications.
- Parallel wing walls are formed to step alignment in accordance with specifications.
- Jointing is carried out to job specifications.
- Brickwork/blockwork is laid to line and set out with gauge and completed to job drawings, specifications, standards and codes.
- Brick/block faces are cleaned free of mortar.
- Clean up.
- Work area is cleared and materials disposed of, reused or recycled in accordance with legislation, regulations, codes of practice and job specification.
- Plant, tools and equipment are cleaned, checked, maintained and stored in accordance with manufacturer recommendations and standard work practices.