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Customised Training Modules

The Asphalt Academy can create customized and bespoke courses that cater for any and all of your business training requirements. The following NQF 1 – 4 current asphalt related courses can be structured according to your organisation’s needs.

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Normally split into 2 sessions of 2 days each to facilitate site production

  • General Road construction terminology and plant identification
  • HMA Manufacture, transportation, lay and compactions
  • Asphalt versus Granular materials
  • Paving versus Patching
  • Layerwork classification including stabilization and granular material tests
  • Bitumen introduction and Bituminous materials
  • HMA material tests
  • Overview/intro into HSE, First Aid and fire fighting
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  • Introduction 
  • Health Aspects
  • Glossary 
  • Precautions
  • Hazards
  • Environmental aspects
  • Personnel protection
  • Legal responsibilities
  • First Aid
  • Procedures
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  • Spade and Rake work
  • Rideability 
  • Joint preparation 
  • Effects of solvents and cleaning aids
  • Compaction aspects
  • HSE
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  • The need for compaction
  • Effects of temperature variations
  • Risks
  • Effects of weather
  • Tack and prime
  • Roller types and different effects/actions
  • Lab versus field densities
 
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  • Temperature
  • Overloading effects
  • Speed and tyres
  • Truck numbers required/day
  • Release agents
  • Loading of mix
  • Road safety
  • Discharging mix
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  • Dipping the road
  • Conversions using relative densities
  • Units
  • Ordering the materials
  • Area Calcs
  • Recording asphalt usage – tally clerks
  • Volume calcs
 
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  • Road networks – Road classes
  • Lane closure
  • Intro to signs, flashing lights
  • Stop/Go
  • Effects of speed
  • Temporary closures
  • SSD and Decisions
  • Residential Setups
  • Flag men duties
  • Bus routes and main distributor setups
  • Components of road closures
  • Provincial and national road setups
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  • Manufacture & properties of bitumen
  • Hazards
  • Types and grades of bitumen
  • Precautions
  • Bitumen Test methods
  • First Aid
  • Guidelines for safe handling of bitumen
  • Health and the environment

Once all the delegates have met the specific qualifying criteria (if any), we are able to create an agenda based on your training requirements and needs.

Please contact us should you have any further enquiry.

Contact
+27 21 531 2718

SABITA, Pinelands, Cape Town, 7405

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