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Craft painter and decorator (level 3)

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Information about Craft painter and decorator (level 3)

To provide all aspects of painting and decorating.

• Knowledge, skills and behaviours:
  View knowledge, skills and behaviours

  Knowledge

  • Awareness of health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance and impact on role of the team and other construction trades. Employer and employee responsibilities. Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (CoSHH). Fire safety. Health and Safety at Work Act. Asbestos awareness. Manual handling. Signage, Situational awareness. Slips, trips, and falls. Working in confined spaces. Lone working. Electrical safety (electrical equipment and hand soaking) Hand arm vibration (HAVS)and Lead at work. Reporting injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations (RIDDOR), Provision and use of work equipment regulations (PUWER).
  • Safety Control equipment and safety techniques: personal protective equipment (PPE), respiratory protective equipment (RPE) and dust suppression (LEV).
  • Working at height equipment: selection and safe use.
  • Incident management techniques: accidents, near misses, hazards, damage and environmental incidents. Mitigation methods. Reporting methods.
  • Safe systems of work, site specific inductions, risk assessments, method statements, control measures -implementation and monitoring techniques, hazard identification in the work area.
  • Principles of team working.
  • Hand tools and equipment use and maintenance: preparation tools, application tools and equipment.
  • Power tools and equipment: preparation, use and storage.
  • Power tools and equipment: maintenance, fault finding and fault reporting.
  • Spray-painting equipment, components and function: airless, high-volume low-pressure, high-volume low-pressure turbines, high-volume low-pressure compressor and power rollers.
  • Preparation methods of spray painting materials: viscosity, straining.
  • Preparation and use of spray painting equipment: hazards and risks of incorrect use, spray tip and filter selection and air pressure.
  • Spray painting application techniques: pressure, distance, movement, internal and external angles.
  • Cleaning, maintenance and storage of spray painting equipment.
  • Preparation for spray painting internal locations: environment, temporary surface protection, masking materials, powered ventilation; surface conditions, sound and noise levels.
  • Preparation for spray painting external locations: variable climate conditions, environment, temporary surface protection, masking materials.
  • Sustainability and environmental management systems and standards. Environmental Protection Act. Surface water management plans, signage and notices. Types of pollution and control measures: noise, air pollution, smells, spills, waste and disposal of hazardous waste. Segregate resources for re-use and recycling.
  • Heritage buildings: principles and considerations of specialist materials and equipment, application techniques, impact assessment, minimum intervention, honest repairs, moisture permeable, breathability, like for like, preservation, reversibility, reinstatement, traditional techniques, conservation, heritage legislation.
  • Standards and regulations associated with painting and decorating activities: British Standards, building regulations and product manufacture guarantees.
  • Interpreting relevant information from drawings, specifications, manufacturer’s safety data sheets and information including, programmes of work and work instructions. Digital and written formats.
  • Costing and pricing principles: budgeting, labour and material costs, VAT, overheads, transport, access and equipment (hire or purchase) and profit.
  • Wallcoverings and their characteristics: patterns, set and off set (drop) match, adhesives.
  • Surface preparation methods and techniques for architecturally complex surfaces: chemical strippers, infra-red paint strippers and abrasives.
  • Application techniques for hanging wallcoverings (foundation papers and matching patterned finishing papers) to surfaces with architectural complexities, including ceilings.
  • Materials and equipment for broken colour paint effects.
  • Characteristics of timbers and marbles for pattern replication.
  • Application techniques for broken colour paint effects: rag rolling, sponge stippling, pre-cut single and multi-plate stencilling, basic straight graining, basic marbling, colour washing, dragging, glazing and wiping.
  • Materials and application techniques for metal leaf: transfer, loose leaf, metallic powder.
  • Water-borne and solvent-borne coatings application techniques and sequencing for spindles and handrails and doors with panels, mouldings, rails, stiles and muntins.
  • Solvent-borne and water-borne coatings application techniques and sequencing for surfaces with architectural complexities: mouldings, decorative architectural features, panels and period windows.
  • Use of colour schemes, colour charts, notations, colour terms for identification and in different environments: domestic, commercial, health and education.
  • Principles of presenting colour schemes: mood boards, digital media.
  • Material quantity calculation, wastage, and recycling allowance: wallcoverings, coatings, sundries.
  • Time management techniques and methods: planning work and resources, scheduling tasks for self and others.
  • Stock control processes: availability, lead times, value, faulty stock and returns process, stock rotation and quality control.
  • Written communication techniques. Plain English principles. Painting and decorating terminology.
  • Verbal communication techniques: Giving and receiving information and adapting style for recipients. Painting and decorating terminology.
  • Defects, causes and remedies: wet and dry coatings, substrates, preparation, materials, application, workmanship, environment.
  • Safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults within the working environment.
  • Wellbeing: mental and physical health considerations in self and others and how to access support.
  • Equity, diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.
  • Preparation materials, characteristics and use: fillers, resin fillers, sealants, stabilisers, caulks, primers, decontaminants, abrasives.
  • Principles of quality assurance.
  • Specialist wallcoverings characteristics, manufacturer’s setting out guidance, application techniques and tools: non-standard widths, murals and digital prints, adhesives.
  • Construction phase plan (CPP): content, management and controls.

  Skills

  • Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
  • Select and use safety control equipment including respiratory protective equipment (RPE), dust suppression (LEV) and personal protective equipment (PPE), when carrying out tasks, including high-volume low-pressure spraying tasks.
  • Apply environmental and sustainable principles in compliance with regulations, standards and systems. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
  • Apply and monitor safe systems of work and control measures. Risk and hazard identification and escalation.
  • Comply with painting and decorating industry standards, regulations and guidance.
  • Select, check and use working at height equipment for example steps, ladders, hop-ups, podiums and mobile towers.
  • Interpret and extract information using paper based or digital techniques from drawings, specifications, manufacturer’s safety data sheets and information and provide work instructions.
  • Calculate material and quantities: wallcoverings, coatings and sundries.
  • Calculate costs for materials and resources: For example, budgeting, labour and material costs, VAT, overheads, transport, access and equipment (hire or purchase) and profit.
  • Apply time management techniques and methods to tasks for self and others.
  • Apply team working principles.
  • Use and maintain hand tools and equipment.
  • Prepare, use and store power tools and equipment.
  • Maintain power tools and equipment, reporting and escalating defects and faults.
  • Prepare architecturally complex surfaces for coating using either chemical strippers, infra-red or abrasives.
  • Apply coatings, water-borne and or solvent-borne to a range of surfaces with architectural complexities: mouldings, decorative architectural features, panels and period windows.
  • Apply water-borne and solvent-borne coatings to spindles and handrails and doors with panels, mouldings, rails, stiles and muntins.
  • Apply broken colour paint effects including rag rolling and dragging.
  • Prepare internal building surfaces and surrounding work area for spray painting.
  • Check and set up spray painting equipment for example, airless, high-volume low-pressure, high-volume low-pressure turbines, high-volume low-pressure compressor or power rollers.
  • Select and prepare spray paint materials.
  • Apply water-borne coatings using spray painting equipment.
  • Clean, maintain and store spray painting equipment.
  • Prepare surfaces with architectural complexities to receive wallcoverings.
  • Prepare and apply specialist wallcoverings, for example non-standard widths, murals and digital prints.
  • Prepare and apply wallcovering to staircase, and behind radiator.
  • Prepare and apply wallcoverings (foundation papers and matching patterned finishing papers) to surfaces with architectural complexities, including ceilings.
  • Applies quality assurance procedures.
  • Manage time and tasks to meet deadlines.
  • Communicate verbally with others, apply painting and decorating terminology.
  • Manage construction phase plan (CPP) identifying and reporting risks to completion, communicating progress, resolving issues.
  • Communicate in writing with others, use painting and decorating terminology. For example, internal and external customers, colleagues.
  • Obtain, monitor and rotate stock and supplies.
  • Apply fault-finding and problem-solving techniques to common painting and decorating problems.
  • Apply the use of colour schemes, colour charts, notations, colour terms for identification and in different environments: domestic, commercial, health and education.
  • Apply the principles of colour schemes: mood boards, digital media.
  • Prepare external locations for spray painting.
  • Prepare internal building surfaces and surrounding work area for water-borne and solvent-borne coating.

  Behaviours

  • Promote environmental and sustainability principles in their work and with others.
  • Take responsibility for health and safety for themselves and others.
  • Take responsibility for the quality of work and encourage others to work to high standards.
  • Collaborate and promote teamwork across disciplines and external stakeholders.
  • Committed to continued professional development (CPD) to maintain and enhance competence in their own area of practice.
  • Support equity, diversity, and inclusivity in the workplace.
• Apprenticeship category (sector): Construction and the built environment
• Qualification level: 3; Equal to A level
• Course duration: 18 months
• Maximum funding: £12,000 ; Maximum government funding for ; apprenticeship training and assessment costs.
• Job titles include:
  • Craft painter and decorator
  • Foreman painter and decorator

View more information about Craft painter and decorator (level 3) from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.