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course outline

Workshop Rules and Regulation
- Safety Practices (Personnel)
- Safety Devices (Preventive and Protective)
- Safety Rules (Machines)
- Workshop Layout
First Aid
- Types of First Aid Materials
- Worksite Aids
Worksite Safety
- Worksite Hazards
- Safety Precautions in Worksite
Tools, Machines and Maintenance
- Woodwork Hand Tools
- Portable Power Tools
- Uses of Hand Tools and Portable Power Tools
- Maintenance and Precautionary Measures for Hand Tools
- Sketches of Hand Tools or Portable Power Tools
- Types and Uses of Machines in Carpentry and Joinery Workshop
Materials: Types and Uses
- Timber: Growth and Structure
- Timber: Conversion, Seasoning, and Uses
- Common Defects in Timber and their Remedies
- Reasons for Seasoning Timber
- Preservation and Preservatives
- Veneer and Manufactured Boards
- Adhesives: Types, Uses, and Characteristics
- Ironmongery: Types
- Fixing Hinges and Locks
Construction Principles and Techniques
- Timber Preparation Sequence
- Sketching and Developing Working Drawings
- Interpreting Simple Working Drawings of Wood Projects
- Common Woodwork Joints: Construction and Uses
- Simple Project with Specified Joint
- Types of Doors and Windows
- Formworks: Types, Identification, Construction, Uses
- Centres for Arches: Identification, Design, Construction
- Purpose of Timbering
- Cost Analysis of Simple Projects
- Stairs, Handrails, and Balusters
- Scaffolding and Ladders
- Estimation and Costing
Finishes and Finishing
- Abrading Tools
- Types and Grades of Abrasives
- Uses of Abrasives
- Selection of Grades of Abrasives
- Types of Finishes
- Characteristics and Application of Finishes
- Finishing Tools - Spray Gun
- Finishing Process
- Simple Project Work with Finishing
Business Opportunities in Carpentry and Joinery Trade
- Furniture Making: Projects with Commercial Value
- Material Supply and Merchandising: Small Scale Workshop Description
- Contract Work: Feasibility Study Reports

Topics

Cost Analysis of Simple Projects
Examples include centre tables and stools; projects may be presented as working drawings

Carpentry

WAEC WASSCE

course outline

Topics

Cost Analysis of Simple Projects