Qualification details

Employability skill 

Industry/enterprise requirements for this qualification include: 

Communication 

• Communicates with clients, colleagues and others using effective and appropriate communication techniques, including:

• Clear and direct communication
• Active listening
• Verbal and non-verbal language
• Questioning to identify and confirm requirements
• Language and concepts appropriate to cultural differences

• Follows instructions from supervisor and other relevant persons
• Understands, interprets and applies information as required from:

• Regulatory, legislative, licensing and organisational requirements
• Environmental and OHS requirements, including material safety data sheets (MSDS)
• Codes and standards
• Plans, drawings and specifications
• Schedules
• Load tables
• Designs
• Safety signs and symbols
• Organisational policies and procedures

• Understands relevant definitions, terminology, symbols, abbreviations and language
• Uses industry-accepted visual communications, including hand signals
• Reports and records routine workplace and regulatory information including test data
• Applies measurements and calculations using appropriate equipment, formulas and records as required
• Reports and records hazards and risks
• Produces drawings and sketches

Teamwork 

• Works as part of a team
• Provides assistance and encouragement to other team members
• Initiates and encourages improvements in team performance
• Works with others to plan and sequence tasks
• Identifies and utilises the strengths of other team members
• Relates to people from diverse social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds and with varying physical and mental abilities
• Participates in workplace meetings

Problem solving 

• Responds effectively to hazards, risks, emergencies and first aid situations
• Examines tools and equipment prior to use for damage, missing components or other defects
• Identifies typical faults and problems and takes remedial actions and/or reports to supervisor
• Rectifies simple faults with tools and equipment
• Test systems and components
• Calculates ventilation requirements and gas storage capacity
• Locates and repairs gas leaks
• Assesses roof work site safety

Initiative and enterprise 

• Maximises use of resources by recycling, re-using or using appropriate disposal methods
• Responds to change and workplace challenges
• Determines requirements for heating system installations, appliance installations, flue installations and gas piping system purging

Planning and organising 

• Prepares work area
• Identifies and obtains necessary documentation
• Collects, analyses and organises workplace information
• Selects and uses appropriate materials, tools and equipment
• Carries out site inspections
• Determines material quantity requirements and conformity to requirements
• Coordinates delivery of materials
• Determines installation requirements
• Fabricates, sets out, installs and commissions components, equipment and systems
• Prioritises and sequences tasks
• Applies time management skills to ensure work is completed to time requirements

Self management 

• Recognises obligations and accepts responsibility for own work and safety
• Recognises quality requirements and completes work to expected standard
• Identifies personal career development needs and sets own and team work goals
• Participates in workplace induction
• Cleans up work area, including tools and equipment
• Seeks support to improve work performance

Learning 

• Identifies own learning needs and seeks skill development as required
• Is open to learning new ideas and techniques
• Participates in workplace induction

Technology 

• Uses electricity and electrical equipment safely
• Uses and operates a range of tools and equipment correctly and safely
• Properly starts up, operates and shuts down equipment
• Identifies technological trends that may affect the plumbing and services sector
• Carries out pre- and post-operational checks on tools and equipment
• Performs tool and equipment maintenance as required

To achieve this qualification, the candidate must demonstrate competency in:

• 32 units of competency:

• 26 core units
• 6 elective units.

Some units in this qualification may have prerequisite requirements, which must be met when packaging the qualification. Users are referred to the list of CPC08 units with prerequisite unit requirements available in this Training Package for this purpose.

Core units 

CPCPCM2039A

Carry out interactive workplace communication

CPCPCM2040A

Read plans and calculate plumbing quantities

CPCPCM2041A

Work effectively in the plumbing and services sector

CPCPCM2043A

Carry out WHS requirements

CPCPCM2045A

Handle and store plumbing materials

CPCPCM2046A

Use plumbing hand and power tools

CPCPCM2047A

Carry out levelling

CPCPCM2048A

Cut and join sheet metal

CPCPCM2050A

Mark out materials

CPCPCM2052A

Weld using oxy-acetylene equipment

CPCPCM2053A

Weld using manual metal arc welding equipment

CPCPCM2055A

Work safely on roofs

CPCPCM3021A

Flash penetrations through roofs and walls

CPCPGS3046A

Install LPG systems in caravans, mobile homes and mobile workplaces

CPCPGS3047A

Install LPG systems in marine craft

CPCPGS3048A

Install gas pressure control equipment

CPCPGS3049A

Install Type A gas appliance flues

CPCPGS3051A

Purge consumer piping

CPCPGS3052A

Maintain Type A gas appliances

CPCPGS3053A

Disconnect and reconnect Type A gas appliances

CPCPGS3054A

Calculate and install natural ventilation for Type A gas appliances

CPCPGS3056A

Install gas piping systems

CPCPGS3057A

Size consumer gas piping systems

CPCPGS3058A

Install and commission Type A gas appliances

CPCPGS3059A

Install LPG storage of aggregate storage capacity up to 500 litres

HLTFA211A

Provide basic emergency life support

Elective units 

CPCCCM2008B

Erect and dismantle restricted height scaffolding

CPCCCM2010B

Work safely at heights

CPCCCM3001C

Operate elevated work platforms

CPCCRI3001A

Operate personnel and materials hoists

CPCCST2005A

Carry out load slinging of off-site materials

CPCPCM2049A

Cut using oxy-LPG-acetylene equipment

CPCPCM2054A

Carry out simple concreting and rendering

CPCPCM3022A

Weld polyethylene and polypropylene pipes using fusion method

CPCPCM3023A

Fabricate and install non-ferrous pressure piping

CPCPGS3050A

Install Type B gas appliance flues

CPCPGS3055A

Install gas sub-meters

CPCPGS3060A

Install LPG storage of aggregate storage capacity exceeding 500 litres and less than 8KL

CPCPMS2021A

Assemble mechanical services components

CPCPMS3031A

Fabricate and install steel pressure piping

CPCPMS3033A

Install small bore heating systems

CPCPMS3035A

Install and test ducting systems

MEM05049B

Perform routine gas tungsten arc welding

MEM05050B

Perform routine gas metal arc welding

RIICCM210A

Install trench support