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Prepare the School Lane footpath repair site

You are a Works Crew Leader at the Kellerton depot.

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The situation

What has happened

A raised concrete slab outside Marlow Flat Primary School has caused a child to trip. The slab has been ground and coned as a temporary measure and works order WO-26-0415 is open to replace three slabs before Friday. School drop-off runs from 8:15 am to 9:00 am and the footpath is the main route for walking students. Two houses share the footpath frontage. Last week a crew member strained his back lifting a slab without the vacuum lifter, and the manual handling refresher has not yet run. Hemi Tauroa has allocated the footpath truck and a two-person crew but the vacuum lifter is booked on another job on Wednesday.

Your brief. Prepare the site and the crew for the footpath replacement so the job starts safely on Thursday: complete the job safety analysis, arrange traffic and pedestrian management, notify the school and residents, confirm plant and materials, and update the works order.
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Tasks

Deliverables

  • Completed job safety analysis
  • Pedestrian and traffic management sketch
  • Notification letters to the school and residents
  • Updated works order record

Documents to use

Systems to use

Works and Asset Maintenance Orders

Schedules and records every road, footpath, drainage and building maintenance job allocated to the depot crews.

Incident and Hazard Register

Records every injury, near miss, hazard and aggressive customer event across the shire and tracks corrective actions.

For trainers and assessors

Units of competency

Current on training.gov.au for the Local Government as at 10 September 2026.

LGAOPS001Prepare for operational works
LGAOPS002Prepare site for new operational works
LGACOR001Work in local government

Qualifications

LGA20120Certificate II in Local Government
LGA30120Certificate III in Local Government
Assessor notes

What to look for

Evidence guide

The job safety analysis must identify the real hazards of the task and specify controls, including the vacuum lifter as mandatory. Check that the pedestrian route works during school peak times, that the notifications give the required notice, and that the works order shows the preparation steps completed before the status changes to Scheduled.

The student's evidence summary lists every record they created or changed in the systems named above, their notes and the tasks they ticked. Verify it against the deliverables and your own assessment tool.