Gas Engineering Operative Apprenticeship

1. Carry out safe isolation essential electrical safety checks
2. Carry out flue testing
3. Undertake the necessary safety checks following gas work on an appliance (regulation 26/9)
4. Work in compliance with statutory and normative documentation including building regulations, water regulations and electrical regulations
5. Access and comply with technical guidance, bulletins and safety alerts e.g. Gas Industry Unsafe Situations Procedures (GIUSP)
6. Demonstrate tightness testing, purging and relight procedures on gas installations
7. Demonstrate pipework installations/pipework skills, pressure and flow/pipework sizing, meter installations
8. Demonstrate ambient air testing/carbon monoxide/dioxide atmosphere testing
9. Identify gas safety controls and prove their safe operation
10. Complete records and maintain records accordingly
11. Identify faults and take the appropriate action
12. Undertake the installation and/or repair and maintenance of four appliances
13. Reinstate following completion of works cleaning up and making good

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Apprentices without level 2 English and mathematics will need to achieve this level prior to taking the end point assessment.