OS Construction

This unit is designed to provide vocational skills in carpentry and joinery.

This unit includes:

• consideration of health and safety issues with respect to activities in carpentry and joinery;

• consideration of career opportunities related to working with wood in the construction industry;

• an appreciation of environmental issues relating to timber;

• the appropriate use of basic carpentry and joinery hand tools and hand-held power tools;

• construction of a range of carpentry and joinery models relating to site-based activities, incorporating a wide range

of joints and jointing methods; and

• a review and evaluation of performance.

This unit is designed to provide increased vocational skills in bench joinery and associated activities.

This unit includes:

• consideration of health and safety issues with respect to workshop activities in bench joinery;

• consideration of career opportunities related to working with wood in the construction industry;

• an appreciation of environmental issues relating to timber;

• the appropriate use of bench joinery hand tools, and basic hand-held power tools;

• techniques of cutting, jointing, boring, and planing to produce construction related components;

• construction of a range of bench joinery models; and

• a review and evaluation of performance.