Move, handle and store resources

Install | FS001

This activity is about handling, moving and storing the resources required for firestopping, including sheet material, loose material, bagged or wrapped material, fragile material, tools and equipment, components and liquids. This includes checking information relating to storage and movement of materials, following safe and health working practices, selecting and using aids and moving equipment, and moving handling and storing resources.

Culture & behaviour

Core abilities

Culture & behaviour
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Effective working behaviours

You must:

  • Work within limits of own capability and know when to seek advice from others
  • Manage own time effectively
  • Work effectively individually and as part of a team
  • Communicate effectively
  • Undertake personal development activities to maintain currency of competence
Culture & behaviour
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Passive fire protection installation behaviours

You must:

  • Use organisational processes to flag up non-compliant works
  • Challenge unsafe behaviours and activities, and report where necessary
  • Identify and manage risks to self and others
  • Keep own work area clean and tidy
  • Work in accordance with quality requirements and challenge where they are not being met
Currency of competence
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Experience moving, handling and storing resources

You must have:

  • 1 satisfactory instance of moving, handling and storing resources every year
Core abilities
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Safe working practices for ancillary activities

You must:

  • Know the purpose and importance of risk assessment
  • Know what the accident reporting procedures are and who is responsible for making the report
  • Know why and when personal protective equipment (PPE) should be used
  • Know organisational procedures for resolving or reporting problems
  • Know how to protect work from damage, and the purpose of protection being used
  • Know why waste should be disposed of safely and how this is achieved
Specific abilities
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Safe practices for manual handling

You must:

  • Know the types of products used for firestopping
  • Understand the importance of moving, storing and securing firestopping products correctly
  • Know the types of information that you might receive relevant to moving, handling and storing resources, their source, and how they should be interpreted
  • Know where to find information on storage and handling of firestopping products
  • Know where to find information on using and storing lifting aids and equipment
  • Know the uses and limitations of equipment used to move and secure firestopping resources
  • Know why it is important for work to be carried out to time, and why deadlines should be kept
  • Know where to find information on hazards associated with movement and storage of firestopping products
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Moving, handling and storing resources

You must:

  • Know organisational procedures for moving, handling and storing resources

You must be able to:

  • Check project specification, drawings & verbal information relating to movement, handling and storage of resources, to determine their relevance
  • Follow method statements, risk assessments and work instructions, either verbal or in written format
  • Select equipment for the safe movement, positioning and storage of resources for firestopping
  • Identify appropriate storage locations for firestopping resources
  • Move, position, store and secure resources
    • To include three of the following: sheet material, loose material, bagged or wrapped material, fragile material, tools and equipment, components, liquids.
  • Use and maintain lifting equipment
  • Use required PPE

Currency of competence

Specific abilities

Culture & behaviour

Core abilities

Currency of competence

Specific abilities

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