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DEFINITION

Nearly everything we use in our daily life is welded or made by equipment that is welded. Welders help build metal products from furniture to buildings. The use of welding is practically unlimited and there is no lack of variety of the type of work that is done.

Welding is defined as a process for joining similar metals. Welding joins metals by melting and fusing:

1. the base metals being joined and
2. the filler metal applied.

Welding employs pinpointed, localized heat input. Most welding involves ferrous based metals such as steel and stainless steel.

PURPOSE

The Basic Welding and Metalwork qualification is to provide learners with the standards and the range of skills required to work effectively in the welding industry and to meet the challenges of the welding and metalwork environment in South Africa.

This Qualification recognises the basic skills, knowledge and values acquired by learners to do welding. The purpose of this Qualification is to develop learners who, after completion, demonstrate the ability to: 

• Use and apply basic mechanical and welding technology, techniques, processes and skills, as applied in the manufacturing and welding industry, using appropriate tools and measuring equipment.
• Use and apply a variety of basic fillet welding, oxy-fuel cutting and oxy-fuel joining processes.
• Demonstrate basic knowledge of welding and its productive requirements, by applying appropriate work-procedures safely.

Communicate (speak and demonstrate) effectively in order to achieve personal, business and organizational objectives by reading of basic words and understanding pictures and interpreting basic work instructions and drawings, maintaining effective relationships; exploring options for further learning. (These functions may require mediation).

UNIQUE FEATURES AND SCOPE

The Basic Welding and Metalwork qualification gives learners the opportunity to:

• develop basic skills and knowledge necessary to begin a career in the welding industry
• produce products that will meet a wide variety of exacting customer and consumer requirements
• join material that is subjected to considerable stress using consistent and accurate welding processes.
• develop, a career path with greater security of employment within the welding industry.
• obtain Recognition of Prior Learning for the basic skills and knowledge gained to be used for further qualification when employed in the welding industry