Fitting & Safe Use of Hand Tools
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£1,200 + VAT (Per person)
Location - StockportFitting & Safe Use of Hand Tools
Objectives: To provide delegates with the necessary knowledge, skills and safe working practices to enable them to safely undertake a range of fitting tasks in an industrial environment.
Course duration: 5 days
Pre-course requirements: Delegates should have a basic understanding of the use of hand tools, along with an understanding of workplace health and safety.
Programme Overview
Safety
• Workshop safety and preparing to work in an engineering workshop.
• Protection clothing and associated equipment.
Marking Out and Measuring
• Reading and interpreting engineering drawings with particular reference to
• mechanical maintenance requirements
• Use of common marking out tools used in the production of basic profiles
• Demonstration & individual practice in the following:
• Micrometers, Verniers, Callipers, Digital Block Slip Gauges (metric & imperial)
Hand Tools and Machinery
• Demonstration and practice of the correct and safe use of files, chisels, hammers, saws, spanners, wrenches.
• Demonstration and practice exercises on pillar drills, band saws, pedestal grinders and any relevant machinery.
Materials
• Description of the basic characteristics of materials:
• Ferrous and non-ferrous
• Non-metallic (plastics & fibres) and their application for given conditions