Learning Objectives

ProQual Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Occupational Work Supervision (Construction)

Confirming Work Activities and Resources for an Occupational Work Area in the Workplace

• Identify work activities, assess required resources and plan the sequence of work.
• Obtain clarification and advice where the resources required are not available.
• Evaluate the work activities and the requirements of any significant external factors against the project requirements
• Identify work activities which influence each other and make the best use of their sources available.
• Identify changed circumstances that require alterations to the work programme and justify them to decision makers.

Developing and Maintaining Good Occupational Working Relationships in the Workplace

• Develop, maintain and encourage working relationships to promote good will and trust.
• Inform relevant people about work activities in an appropriate level of detail, with the appropriate level of urgency.
• Offer advice and help to relevant people about work activities and encourage questions/requests for clarification and comments.
• Clarify proposals with relevant people and discuss alternative suggestions.
• Resolve differences of opinion in ways that minimise offence and maintain goodwill, trust and respect.

Confirming the Occupational Method of Work in the Workplace

• Assess available project data accurately to determine the occupational method of work.
• Obtain additional information from alternative sources in cases where the available project data is insufficient.
• Identify work methods that will make best use of resources and meet project, statutory and contractual requirements.
• Confirm and communicate the selected work method to relevant personnel.

Implementing and Maintaining Health, Safety and Welfare in the Workplace

• Allocate and maintain health, safety and welfare equipment and resources to meet project and statutory requirements.
• Encourage a positive health, safety and welfare culture whilst identifying opportunities for improving the health and safety of the work environment.
• Ensure that their team is inducted and suitably competent and monitored whilst at the workplace.
• Monitor health, safety and welfare in the relevant work environment in accordance with statutory requirements.

Co-ordinating and Organising Work Operations in the Workplace

• Provide adequate information about the work, as required, to all people affected.
• Agree a programme and methods of work with the people who will carry out the work.
• Organise the work being done with other operations as required for the overall work being carried out.
• Obtain sufficient resources of the appropriate type to meet the project requirements and timescales.
• Organise and control the work and resources in order to keep the workplace safe and tidy
• Identify, record and pass on information on any special considerations to people who could be affected.
• Organise the work area layout for operational purposes and communicate to the people involved with the work.
• Organise the storage and use of materials and components so that materials handling and movement is efficient and wastage is minimised.

Allocating and Monitoring the Use of Plant, Machinery or Equipment in the Workplace

• Confirm the plant, machinery or equipment for the workplace and allocate it to the operations.
• Identify and assess health and safety risks and implement working practices and other safeguards to minimise risks involving the use of plant, machinery or equipment.
• Inform decision makers where plant, machinery or equipment is unsuitable for use in the workplace when allocating and monitoring
• Provide accurate instructions for the use of plant, machinery or equipment to operators when allocating and monitoring and ensure safe use.
• Inform decision makers promptly when plant, machinery or equipment is no longer required.

Monitoring Progress of Work Against Schedules in the Workplace

• Identify and inform decision makers of inappropriate specified resources and suggest suitable alternatives.
• Identify and quantify deviations from planned progress which have or may occur, and which could disrupt the programme.
• Confirm the circumstances of any deviations, and agree and implement appropriate corrective actions.
• Identify options which may produce savings in cost and time and help the contract progress, and pass options onto decision makers.
• Inform decision makers about progress, changes to the operational programme and resource needs.

Confirming Work Meets Quality Standards in the Workplace

• Identify quality standards from available information and clearly specify to the people responsible for their implementation.
• Regularly check that work conforms to the design requirements and the specified quality standards.
• Identify work that fails to meet the requirements and quality standards, and implement corrective action.
• Regularly inform decision makers about significant variations in quality standards.

Implementing Procedures to Support the Team’s Performance in the Workplace

• Identify performance and bring directly to the attention of the team member concerned.
• Provide team members with the opportunity to discuss actual or potential problems affecting their performance
• Agree with team members a course of action which is appropriate, timely and effective
• Ensure team members are aware of information regarding disciplinary and grievance procedures.

Co-ordinating and Confirming Dimensional Control Requirements of the Work in the Workplace

• Co-ordinate with and communicate accurate work information to work colleagues.
• Confirm and measure dimensional controls and maintain them to the specified work requirements.
• Check and adjust measuring and recording equipment to the specified accuracy.
• Identify any deviations in dimensional controls and ensure they are corrected in accordance with work requirements.
• Identify circumstances and conditions that require revision of work practices.