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National Certificate:
Welding Application and Practice
NQF Level 2

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ABOUT THIS PROGRAMME

The purpose of the qualification is to provide students, education and training providers and employers with the standards and the range of learning required to work effectively in various industries making use of Welding Application and Practices skills and to meet the challenges of the welding industry and related environments.

Minimum Admission requirements

General Education and Training Certificate at NQF Level 1 or Grade 9 Certificate. Preference will be given to Grade 12 candidates.

CAREER opportunities

People who have achieved the skills and knowledge outlined in this qualification are normally employed in the following positions:

Fabrication Industry
Metal and Steel Industry
Manufacturing Industry
Cargo Ship Building Industry
Construction Structures (Steel)
Self-Employment

Duration

1-year full-time
6 months at College and 6 months in the workplace.

Course content

Core Unit Standards

Apply work site practices
Braze metals using the oxy-fuel brazing process
Cut materials using the oxy-fuel gas cutting process (manual cutting)
Describe the welding industry’s composition, its productivity requirements and communication techniques
Identify and select material to specification
Select, use and care for engineering hand tools
Select, use and care for engineering measuring equipment
Select, use and care for engineering power tools
Use welding definitions and symbols
Weld carbon steel workpieces using the shielded metal arc welding process in the downhand position.
Weld carbon steel workpieces using the cored-wire welding process in the downhand position
Weld carbon steel workpieces using the gas metal arc welding process in the downhand position
Weld workpieces using the oxy-acetylene gas welding process in the downhand position
Weld carbon steel workpieces using the gas tungsten arc welding process in the downhand position

Fundamentals

Access and use information from texts
Apply basic knowledge of statistics and probability to influence the use of data and procedures in order to investigate life related problems
Demonstrate understanding of rational and irrational numbers and number systems
Maintain and adapt oral/signed communication
Measure, estimate and calculate physical quantities and explore, describe and represent geometrical relationships in two-dimensions in different life or workplace contexts
Use language and communication in occupational learning programmes
Use mathematics to investigate and monitor the financial aspects of personal and community life
Work with a range of patterns and functions and solve problems
Write/present for a defined context

Electives

Describe chemical process operations and related process chemistry and technology used in the chemical industry
Managing files in a Graphical User Interface (GUI) environment
Operate a personal computer system
Use generic functions in a GUI
Assemble work pieces in jigs (minor amendments include the use of manipulators)
Deal with safety, health and environmental emergencies in the workplace
Draw and interpret simple plate, pipe and structural steel plate, pipe and structural steel drawings
Erect and dismantle scaffolding
Form and shape sheetmetal using hand or power operated machines
Join sheetmetal with resistance arc welding process
Operate a pendant controlled overhead crane
Perform basic fire fighting
Perform basic first aid
Perform basic rigging procedures
Prepare and secure work pieces for welding (includes the use of manipulators)
Weld carbon steel components, using the submerged arc welding process in a downhand position
Weld carbon steel workpieces, using the shielded metal arc welding process in all positions
Weld carbon steel workpieces, using the gas metal arc welding process in all positions