New Entrant Gas Training Package 1

What You’ll Learn:

You will learn the skills that are required for you to eventually be in a position to register with Gas Safe. This package of learning is devised to take you step by step through the various training in the essential skills required to become a safe and competent Gas Engineer.

This 7 week Bpec Domestic Gas Managed Learning Programme will include:

• Safety, legislation and standards

• Gas emergency actions and procedures

• Products and characteristics of combustion

• Ventilation for domestic gas burning appliances

• Installation of pipework and fittings (including copper/low carbon steel bending and jointing)

• Tightness testing and purging

• Checking and setting appliance burner pressures and gas rates

• Checking and/or setting meter regulators

• Re-establish existing gas supply and re-light appliances

• Operation and positioning of emergency isolation controls and valves

• Operation and checking of appliance gas safety devices and controls

• Chimney standards, installation, inspection and testing

• Unsafe situations, emergency notices and warning labels

Examples of what will be taught across this Domestic Gas Managed Learning Programme are:

• Cutting and measuring copper tube accurately

• Pipe-work preparation for soldering

• Soldering techniques / Practicing soldering / soldering assessments

• X and Z dimension calculations

• Cutting assembling and soldering practice frames to specific dimensions

• How to assemble compression fittings / compression fitting assessments

• The use of different types of jointing pastes for compression jointing

• Cutting assembling and jointing compression fittings frames to specific dimensions

• Cutting and treading low carbon steel pipe

• Jointing steel pipe

• The use of different fittings on steel pipe

• Heating Controls – theory

• Different types of heating systems

• Different types of heating controls and their functions

• Legislation

• Tightness Testing

• Pipework requirements

• Pipe sizing

• Gas rates / Heat inputs

• Gas safety controls

• Combustion Performance Analysis

• Flueing

• Appliance installation and servicing

• Ventilation

• Unsafe situations

There will be written exams and practical assessments throughout the training period. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be provided with a Bpec Foundation Portfolio and guidance for completion.