Page 5 - The City and Guilds Textbook: Plumbing Book 1 for the Level 3 Apprenticeship (9189), Level 2 Technical Certificate (8202) and Level 2 Diploma (6035)

Contents

About your qualification v
Acknowledgements vii
Picture credits viii
How to use this book x

1 Health and safety practices and systems 1
Health, safety and welfare legislation and regulation 1
Recognising and responding to hazardous situations at work 16
Personal protection 27
Responding to accidents 33
Electrical safety in the workplace 43
Working safely with heat-producing equipment 51
Working safely with access equipment 60
Working safely in excavations and confined spaces 72
2 Common processes and techniques 77
Using hand and power tools 77
Types of pipework, bending and jointing techniques 90
Preparation techniques 117
Using pipe clips and pipe brackets 126
Pipework installation techniques 133

3 Scientific principles 147
Units of measurement used in the plumbing and heating industry: the SI system 147
The properties of materials 150
The relationship between energy, heat and power 166
The principles of force and pressure, and their application in the plumbing and heating industry 173
The mechanical principles in the plumbing and heating industry 178
The principles of electricity in the plumbing and heating industry 183

4 Planning and supervision 197
The role of the construction team within the plumbing and heating industry 197
Information sources in the building services industry 206
Communicating with others 212
The responsibilities of relevant people in the building services industry 217
Work programmes in the plumbing and heating industry 221
Risk assessments and method statements for the plumbing and heating industry 227

5 Cold water systems 238
Sources and properties of water 238
The types of water supply to dwellings 245
The water treatment process and distribution of water 248
Sources of information relating to cold water systems 254
The water service pipework to dwellings 256
Selecting cold water systems 261
The system layout features of cold water systems fed from private water supplies 270
The components used in boosted (pumped) cold water supply systems from private sources
for single-occupancy dwellings 272

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