Apprenticeship training course
Steel fixer (level 2)
Assembling and installing steelworks required to strengthen reinforced concrete structures.
- Qualification level
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2
Equivalent to GCSE. - Typical duration
- 18 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Construction and the built environment
- Maximum funding
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£18,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Select and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Protect others within the working vicinity through the use of barriers, signs, and bar protectors.
- Comply with industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
- Move, lift and handle materials.
- Work at height and use access and fall protection equipment.
- Interpret information from drawings and specifications.
- Plan order of works and carry out pre-work checks.
- Use and store hand tools and power tools.
- Apply processes and techniques to install a range of in-situ steel reinforcing structures, for example, columns, walls, pile caps and slabs.
- Measure and mark out reinforcing steel.
- Cut and bend reinforcing steel.
- Produce and install supports, for example, L bars, U bars, splay bars and chairs.
- Join and tie reinforcing steel.
- Use temporary construction bars.
- Install bracing within steel reinforcement.
- Communicate verbally with colleagues or customers using industry terminology.
- Complete post build checks.
- Follow equity, diversity and inclusion legislative guidance and principles.
- Apply ethical principles.
- Follow environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Use processes and techniques to build reinforcing steel assembly with a: step, penetration or upstand feature.
- Follow work instructions - verbal or written.
- Applies team working principles.
- Follow quality assurance procedures.
Full information on Steel fixer (level 2) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.