Produce guidance for putting retail display layouts together

URN: PPL.C342
Business Sectors (Suites): Retail
Developed by: People 1st
Approved on: 2025

Overview

This standard is about producing guidance that will allow staff to put retail display layouts together. It involves working out what is involved in putting display layouts together and giving instructions using schematic drawings and detailed written specifications.

This standard is for staff who put retail display layouts together.
When you have completed this standard you will be able to demonstrate your understanding of and ability to:

  • Produce guidance for putting retail display layouts together

Performance criteria

You must be able to:

  1. draw retail display layouts accurately following your workplace procedures
  2. follow your workplace procedures to use accepted drawing techniques, graphic conventions and coding conventions to provide information
  3. accurately specify the dimensions and orientation of retail display layouts and the required standards for the finished work following your workplace procedures
  4. estimate the quantities and costs of materials required for the design within budget limits following your workplace procedures
  5. estimate costs of materials if there are no existing stocks to be used
  6. recognise when specialist services will be required following your workplace procedures
  7. identify the correct methods for putting retail display layouts together and any risks to health and safety involved in putting the display layouts together and using them following workplace procedures and relevant legislaton
  8. provide adequate information to allow staff to put retail display layouts together efficiently following workplace procedures and relevant legislation
  9. produce guidance for putting retail display layouts together in agreed formats and platforms
  10. inform staff clearly and accurately what they must do to protect their own and others' health and safety while they are putting retail display layouts together following workplace procedures and relevant legislation

Knowledge and Understanding

You need to know and understand:

  1. why specifications, drawings and supporting information are required for putting retail display layouts together
  2. how to produce specifications and drawings to the technical standards required
  3. how to estimate quantities and costs
  4. how to specify the standard of finished work
  5. how to identify and specify the requirement for specialist services
  6. how to describe methods for putting retail display layouts together
  7. the relevant legislation and how to recognise risks to health and safety arising from putting retail display layouts together
  8. the relevant legislation, how to draw the attention of staff to health and safety risks and the preventative action they must take
  9. how to identify and assess the conditions under which retail display layouts will be put together
  10. who will put together retail display layouts in your workplace and who uses them
  11. the drawing and coding conventions and standards to use
  12. the agreed formats and platforms to be used when producing guidance for putting retail display layouts together and why it is important to follow them
  13. the supporting information needed by staff who will put retail display layouts together

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Version Number

3

Indicative Review Date

2030

Validity

Current

Status

Original

Originating Organisation

Skillsmart Retail

Original URN

SSR.C342

Relevant Occupations

Retail and Commercial Enterprise, Retailing and Wholesaling, Sales and Customer Services Occupations, Sales Assistants and Retail Cashiers

SOC Code

7111

Keywords

Retailing; retailers; produces; producing; provides; providing; guidelines; instructions; guides; guiding; instructs; instructing; notes; puts; displays; assembles; assembling; visual merchandising