For this unit, you will be taking on the role of a Tiler. You work for a company called Tiling Innovations that services new residential homes, retiling of older homes, and some commercial buildings. You are responsible for ensuring that you provide quality Tiling work, using only the best materials for your clients. You will also need to ensure that your work meets requirements of federal and state legislation and regulations (such as OHS).

Assessment 1: Help other members of the work team. Your company has recently hired an apprentice named Haden. He has been asked to tile a wall in a new residential home. Haden has prepared a plan of the materials that he will need, and the steps involved in completing the task.

Haden has asked you to look at his plan, and make sure that he hasn't missed anything. To do this, you will need to use Haden's documents (refer to appendix A and B) and prepare a new plan that shows:

a) Correctly sequenced steps that will result in a high-quality results

b) Which tools and materials will be needed for each step

c) Safety requirements for each step

d) How to protect the area that you will be working in

Assessment 2: Meet with Haden. Meet with Haden (who will be played by your assessor) to talk about his plan, and the changes that you have made (in assessment 1). During this meeting you will need to talk about the task that Haden is going to complete and explain what changes you have made to his plan and why. This is to ensure that Haden will complete the task both correctly, and safely.

Your meeting should discuss:

a) The task to be completed

b) Safety requirements of the task

c) The appropriate order of steps to complete the task

d) Why the materials that you have listed are required

As this meeting is at your workplace, and not a social setting, you will need to ensure that the verbal and body language that you use is appropriate for work.

Assessment 3: Evaluate planning using a workplace document. Your workplace requires you to complete a document to evaluate your planning of tasks after each job has been completed. A copy of the form has been attached as appendix C.

In completing the form, you will need to consider:

a) How effective was your planning process?

b) What improvements could be made in future to make processes more efficient?

You will need to complete this form and submit it to your assessor. This assessment has no word limit, as a template has been provided to you. Your answers should fit into the spaces provided.

Note:

The work you submit must be your own. Students have the responsibility to maintain the highest ethical standards of academic integrity in their work. Academic misconduct by students in examinations or in other forms of assessment is unacceptable.

Prior to submitting an assessment, each student will be required to complete an assessment cover sheet which will ask them to sign a declaration to say they have not plagiarised and that they have read and understood the UED's Plagiarism policy.

All work submitted will be checked to ensure authenticity

Students found to have plagiarised will be forced to re-submit the assessment and be required to pay the re-submission fee of $350 per unit of competency and may be subject to disciplinary action.

Appendix A: List of materials required

Materials that I will require to complete this task:

Manual Tile Cutters

Electric Cutters

Diamond Blades

Diamond Drill Bits

Electric Mixer

Rubber Bucket

Tile Trowels

Rubber Grout Floats

Tile Levelling System

Tile Spacers

Appendix B: Steps involved in the task

Steps involved in completing the task:

1. clean the floor of dust and debris

2. measure to find the centre of the room, and snap two chalk lines that intersect exactly in the centre of the floor

3. dry run - lay out the tiles and the spacers.

4. Snap an additional chalk line the width of a tile out from each wall. Continue laying out tiles and spacers until placement is correct.

5. Use a self-mix thin-set mortar for the tile installation.

6. Spread the mixture on a section of the floor and use a notched trowel to obtain an even layer of mortar

7. Put the tiles in place

8. mark and make cuts with a standard tile cutter for sections close to wall

9. Use trowel to spread the grout across the tiles 10. when the grout is in place, wipe away the excess with a damp sponge or cloth

Appendix C: Evaluation form

Briefly describe the task you were working on:

What planning was undertaken?

What could be done to improve future planning processes?