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Fencing installer (level 2)

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Information about Fencing installer (level 2)

Installing different types of fences, gates and barriers, across a broad cross-section of different environments.

Knowledge, skills and behaviours
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Knowledge

  • Awareness of health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance and impact on role. Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (CoSHH). Fire safety. First aid at work. Health and Safety at Work Act. Asbestos awareness. Manual handling and lifting operations and lifting equipment regulations (LOLER). Provision and use of work equipment regulations (PUWER). Fire extinguishers. Safety signage. Situational awareness. Slips, trips, and falls. Working in confined spaces. Working at height. Electrical safety. HSG47 safe digging practices.
  • Safety control equipment and how to use personal protective equipment (PPE), respiratory protective equipment (RPE), dust suppression
  • Safe systems of work: Site inductions, method statements, risk assessments, hazard identification in the work area
  • Standards, regulations and specifications associated with fencing activities BS1722
  • Installation techniques: Fence components and systems and manufacturer’s instructions
  • Fencing and fixing foundation requirements
  • Characteristics and use of fencing materials: Wood, Plastic and Steel
  • Principles and application of measurement techniques
  • Limits of authority, when to escalate tasks and issues and to whom
  • Methods of interpreting and extracting relevant information from drawings plans and specifications; paper based and digital
  • Setting out: Correct lines and levels for fences, access and egress
  • Methods of locating and identifying underground services
  • Methods of repair and reinstating defective or faulty fencing
  • Hand tool use, maintenance and storage
  • Power tool and mechanical plant use and limitations
  • Moving, handling and storing of all materials
  • Site documentation requirements: Fencing records, quality control, site records, accident reporting and permits
  • The importance of working to a work schedule and record keeping
  • Principles of good team working
  • Techniques for verbal communication, giving and receiving information, matching style to audience
  • Written communication techniques. Plain English principles. Construction and fencing terminology
  • Impact of the sector on the environment: Efficient use of resources, surface water contamination, recycling, reuse of materials, safe disposal of waste
  • Inclusion, equity and diversity in the workplace
  • Well-being: Mental and physical health considerations in self and others and how to access support

Skills

  • Comply with health and safety regulations, standards (BS1722), and guidance
  • Identify and use safety control equipment including RPE, dust suppression and PPE
  • Comply with safe systems of work and control measures
  • Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal
  • Interpret and extract information using paper based or digital techniques from drawings, plans and specifications
  • Select required resource for task
  • Select and use hand-held tools
  • Maintain safe working area
  • Maintain and store hand tools
  • Check, use and store power tools and mechanical plant
  • Move, handle and store materials
  • Locate and identify underground services to support fencing installation
  • Establish fencing lines and levels
  • Escalates issues and tasks
  • Set out posts and fixings ready for fence installation
  • Construct foundations ready for fence installation
  • Identify faults and carry out a repair or reinstate defective or faulty fence: For example replacing damaged posts, infills or fence panels
  • Applies team working principles to their own and the wider build team
  • Complete documentation - paper based or digital for example fencing records, quality control, site records accident reporting and permits
  • Communicate with others verbally, for example colleagues, other tradespeople, managers and customers
  • Install fencing material

Behaviours

  • Put health, safety and wellbeing first
  • Consider the environment and sustainability when using resources and carrying out processes
  • Take ownership of given work
  • Contribute to an inclusive and diverse culture
  • Seeks to maintain and enhance competence of self through Continuous Professional development (CPD)
  • Team-focus to meet team goals including, considering the wider build team
Apprenticeship category (sector)
Construction and the built environment
Qualification level
2
Equal to GCSE
Course duration
18 months
Maximum funding
£7,000
Maximum government funding for
apprenticeship training and assessment costs.
Job titles include
  • Fencing installer

View more information about Fencing installer (level 2) from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.