Service, maintain and repair operable partition wall systems
Overview
This standard is about servicing, maintaining, and repairing operable partition wall systems to ensure they operate safely, interpreting information, adopting safe, healthy, and environmentally responsible work practices, selecting and using materials, components, tools, and equipment. This standard is for people working in the occupational area of operable partitions and can be used by operatives, supervisors, and managers.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
P1: Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources to confirm its relevance.
P2: Comply with the given, relevant legislation and official guidance to carry out your work and maintain safe and healthy work practices.
P3: Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work.
P4: Comply with organisational procedures to minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area.
P5: Comply with the given contract information to carry out the work efficiently to the required specification.
P6: Complete the work within the allocated time, in accordance with the programme of work.
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
​Performance Criteria 1
Interpretation of information
K1: The organisational procedures developed to report and rectify inappropriate information and unsuitable resources, and how they are implemented.
K2: The types of information, their source, and how they are interpreted.
K3: The organisational procedures to solve problems with the information and why it is important they are followed.
Performance Criteria 2
Safe work practices
K4: Current legislation and official guidance and how it is applied.
K5: The types of fire extinguishers and how and when they are used.
K6: How emergencies should be responded to and who should respond.
K7: The organisational security procedures for tools, equipment, and personal belongings.
K8: What the accident reporting procedures are and who is responsible for making the report.
K9: Why, when, and how health and safety control equipment should be used.
K10: How to comply with environmentally responsible work practices to meet current legislation and official guidance.
Performance Criteria 3
Selection of resources
K11: The characteristics, quality, uses, sustainability, limitations, and defects associated with the resources and how defects should be rectified.
K12: How the resources should be used and how any problems associated with the resources are reported.
K13: The organisational procedures to select resources, why they have been developed, and how they are used.
K14: The hazards associated with the resources and methods of work and how they are overcome.
Performance Criteria 4
Minimise the risk of damage
K15: How to protect work from damage and the purpose of protection.
K16: Why disposal of waste should be carried out safely and how it is achieved.
Performance Criteria 5
Meet the contract specification
K17: How methods of work, to meet the specification, are carried out and problems reported.
K18: How maintenance of tools and equipment is carried out.
Performance Criteria 6
Allocated time
K19: What the programme is for the work to be carried out in the estimated, allocated time and why deadlines should be kept.
Scope/range
Scope Performance
Performance Criteria 1
- Interpret drawings, specifications, schedules, method statements, risk assessments, and manufacturers' information related to the work to be carried out.
Performance Criteria 2
- Avoid risk by complying with the given information relating to at least four of the following: 2.1. Methods of work 2.2. Safe use of health and safety control equipment 2.3. Safe use of access equipment 2.4. Safe use, storage, and handling of materials, tools, and equipment 2.5. Safe use of lifting equipment, accessories, and props 2.6. Specific risks to health
Performance Criteria 3
- Select resources associated with own work: 3.1. Materials, components, and fixings 3.2. Tools and equipment
Performance Criteria 4
- Protect the work and its surrounding area from damage.
- Maintain a clear and tidy workspace.
- Dispose of waste in accordance with current legislation.
Performance Criteria 5
- Demonstrate work skills to lubricate, adjust, level, plumb, align, operate, dismantle, replace, and assemble.
- Use and maintain tools and equipment.
- Service, maintain, and repair operable partition wall systems, including manual and/or automatic and/or semi-automatic, to given working instructions for at least two of the following: 9.1. Sliding and/or folding wall 9.2. Operable wall 9.3. Non-acoustic glass wall 9.4. Vertically rising wall 9.5. Accordion wall
Performance Criteria 6
- Complete own work within the estimated, allocated time to meet the needs of other occupations and/or client.
Scope Knowledge
Disposal of waste
1. Environmental responsibilities, organisational procedures, manufacturers' information, statutory regulations, and official guidance.
Emergencies
2. Operative's response to situations in accordance with organisational authorisation and personal skills when involved with: 2.1. Fires, spillages, injuries 2.2. Emergencies relating to occupational activities
Fire extinguishers
3. Water, CO2, foam, powder, and their uses.
Hazards
4. Those identified by risk assessment, methods of work, manufacturers’ technical information, statutory regulations, and official guidance.
Health and safety control equipment
5. Identified by the principles of prevention for occupational use, types and purpose of each type, work situations, and general work environment: 5.1. Collective protective measures 5.2. Local exhaust ventilation (LEV) 5.3. Personal protective equipment (PPE) 5.4. Respiratory protective equipment (RPE)
Information
6. Drawings, specifications, schedules, method statements, risk assessments, manufacturers' information, official guidance, and current regulations associated with the installation, servicing, maintenance, and repair of operable partition walls.
Legislation and official guidance
7. Operative's responsibilities regarding potential accidents, health hazards, and the environment whilst working in the workplace, below ground level, in confined spaces, at height, with tools and equipment, with materials and substances, with movement and storage of materials by manual handling and mechanical lifting.
Maintenance
8. Operative checks and care of tools and equipment.
Methods of work
9. Application of knowledge for safe and healthy work practices, procedures, and skills relating to the method and area of work and materials used to: 9.1. Identify system and source service, maintenance information, parts manuals, guides, electronic data, and cross reference 9.2. Identify requirements of periodic, scheduled, and event-based servicing methods for partition systems 9.3. Secure components and ensure systems are safe for ongoing service, maintenance, and repairs 9.4. Use lifting equipment and accessories 9.5. Control and guide lifting appliances 9.6. Dismantle partition systems, parts, and components 9.7. Recognise parts and components of operable partition wall systems 9.8. Recognise and confirm manufacturer systems 9.9. Store, protect, and secure removed materials, parts, and components 9.10. Clean parts and components 9.11. Diagnose and identify faults 9.12. Repair and replace faulty, damaged, worn, and unserviceable parts and components in compliance with manufacturers' specifications 9.13. Repair and/or replace damaged materials 9.14. Assemble operable wall systems 9.15. Check power sources and supplies, as applicable to the isolator 9.16. Complete running and safe operation checks 9.17. Recognise and determine when specialist skills and knowledge are required and report accordingly 9.18. Complete reports and debrief client 9.19. Identify and follow the installation quality requirement 9.20. Work with, around, and in close proximity to plant and machinery 9.21. Use tools and equipment 9.22. Work at height 9.23. Use access equipment
10. Teamwork and communication.
11. Needs of other occupations associated with servicing, maintaining, and repairing operable partition wall systems.
Problems
12. Those arising from information, resources, and methods of work: 12.1. Own authority to rectify 12.2. Organisational reporting procedures
Programme
13. Are estimated.
14. Organisational procedures for reporting circumstances which will affect the work programme.
Protect work
15. Protect work against damage from general workplace activities, other occupations, and adverse weather conditions.
Resources
16. Materials, components, and equipment relating to types, quantity, quality, sizes, and the sustainability of standard and/or specialist: 16.1. Measuring and levelling equipment 16.2. Materials 16.3. Adhesives and fillers 16.4. Fittings and fixings 16.5. Consumables 16.6. Tools and/or portable powered tools and equipment
17. Confirm resources and materials conform with the specification.
18. Methods of calculating quantity, length, area, and wastage associated with the method and procedure to service, maintain, and repair operable partition wall systems.
Security procedures
19. Site, workplace, company, and operative vehicles.