Lantra Awards
Level 2
QN: 603/2166/0
Curriculum Active
Lantra Awards Level 2 Certificate in Highway Electrical Work
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by Lantra Awards. Classified as a Vocationally-Related Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 568 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 2
Awarding Body
Lantra Awards
Syllabus Units
24 Units
Guided Hours
568 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Basic Electrical Theory and Practice in the Highway Electrical Sector
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand electrical terminology and electrical and electronic items used in highway electrical works.2.
- Know how to comply with the Electricity at Work Regulations and guidance.3.
- Know the procedures associated with work on or near DNO or iDNO equipment.4.
- Know how to carry out a safe isolation.
2
Communications/VMS - Installation of Non-Infrastructure Equipment
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the required steps to install a generic set of typical non-infrastructure equipment used for communications in accordance with manufacturing and/or organisation and legislative policies.2.
- Understand the required steps to install a generic set of typical non-infrastructure equipment used for variable message signs in accordance with manufacturing and/or organisation and legislative policies.
3
Communications/VMS - Reactive Maintenance Techniques
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the required steps to commission and carry out first-line maintenance key skills on variable message signs equipment as stated, in accordance with manufacturing and/or organisation and legislative policies.2.
- Understand the required steps and principles to facilitate the fundamental common concepts associated with the understanding of cable maintenance in accordance with manufacturing and/or organisation and legislative policies.3.
- Understand the required steps to commission and carry out first-line maintenance key skills on communications equipment as stated above, in accordance with manufacturing and/or organisation and legislative policies.
4
Communications/VMS – Fundamental Principles
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand concepts associated with communications operations and to maintain a combination of cabinet types in accordance with manufacturing and/or organisation and legislative policies.2.
- Understand the principles of communications detection necessary to facilitate the fundamental common concepts associated with the understanding of installation, commissioning and first-line maintenance key skills in accordance with manufacturing and/or organisation and legislative policies.
5
Health, Safety & Environmental Implementation for Highway Electrical Work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand individual and organizational responsibilities and safe working practices in relation to HASAWA.2.
- Understand safe working practices in respect of hazardous substances.3.
- Understand the causes, results and prevention of electrical injuries.4.
- Understand the causes, results and prevention of manual handling injuries.5.
- Understand responsibilities and actions arising from health and safety legislation and guidance (other than Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 (EAW)).6.
- Know appropriate actions to take in emergency situations.7.
- Understand the responsibilities and appropriate working practices for compliance with environmental requirements.
6
Highway Cameras - Routine Maintenance Techniques
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to ensure routine optical maintenance in accordance with manufacturing/customer requirements and/or organisation and legislative policies.
7
Highway Cameras – Installation Techniques
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Describe and demonstrate how to ensure cable installations are installed to specification in accordance with manufacturing/customer requirements and/or organisation and legislative policies.2. Terminate a range of cable types in accordance with manufacturing/customer requirements and/or organisation and legislative policies.3.
- Describe and demonstrate how to install a range of non-infrastructure equipment to specification in accordance with manufacturing/customer requirements and/or organisation and legislative policies.
8
Highway Cameras/Detector - Reactive Maintenance Techniques
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Describe and demonstrate how to carry out non-routine maintenance on camera head assemblies in accordance with manufacturing/customer requirements and/or organisation and legislative policies.2.State the principles necessary to facilitate the fundamental common concepts associated with the understanding of cable maintenance in accordance with manufacturing and/or organisation and legislative policies
- Describe and demonstrate how to commission and carry out first-line maintenance key skills on detector equipment in accordance with manufacturing and/or organisation and legislative policies (specific to equipment types).
9
Public Lighting - Specialist Techniques – Surface Protection
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know how to prepare surfaces ready for protective coats to be applied.2.
- Know how to identify different surface protection systems and how these are applied
10
Public Lighting – Installation Techniques
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to install lighting columns.2.
- Understand how to install lighting pillars.3.
- Understand how to install lighting bollards.4.
- Understand how to install and connect luminaires and control gear
- Understand how to install and connect underground cables.
11
Public Lighting – Reactive Maintenance Techniques
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know how to define reactive maintenance and how to carry out planned reactive maintenance on lighting units.2.
- Know how to define reactive maintenance and how to carry out planned reactive maintenance on underground cables.3.
- Know how to deal with unplanned reactive maintenance safely.
12
Public Lighting – Routine Maintenance Techniques
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know how to identify the different types of routine maintenance.2.
- Understand how to carry out routine maintenance.
13
Public Lighting – Specialist Techniques
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know how to carry out the recording of results from electrical inspection and testing data collection
- Understand how to identify and locate simple faults on underground cables.
14
Public Lighting Awareness
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know how to identify public lighting and traffic sign equipment and highway boundaries
- Know how to identify public lighting circuits.
15
Safe Working Practices within Highway Electrical Sector
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the principles of hazard identification and risk assessment.2.
- Understand the hazards that may occur as a result of using tools.3.
- Know how to load, transport and remove materials from vehicles.4.
- Know how to identify and avoid danger from services on-site.5.
- Know how to identify equipment for working at height and work safely at height.6.
- Know how to identify, inspect and use relevant Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) / Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE)
- Know how to identify and use equipment for safety at street and road works.8.
- Know how to identify and respond to hazards and risks on-site.
16
Slot Cutting – Access to Cabinets Through Ducts
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the required steps to access cabinets for the connection of road loop cables, whilst identifying the electrical hazards and reducing the associated risk to ensure the safety of the individual and to the integrity of the equipment.
17
Slot Cutting – Cable Laying and Sealing
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the required steps to install and seal to the required specification for mode of operation, in accordance with manufacturing and/or organisation and legislative policies.
18
Slot Cutting – Cutting to Specification
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the required steps to cut appropriate road slots to the required specification for mode of operation, in accordance with manufacturing and/or organisation and legislative policies
19
Slot Cutting – Testing and Repair of Cables
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the required steps to test and repair detection cables to the required specification for mode of operation, in accordance with manufacturing and/or organisation and legislative policies.
20
Traffic and Pedestrian Signal Awareness
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the equipment and common methods of traffic control.2.
- Understand the drawing symbols, equipment and concepts of traffic and pedestrian controls.
21
Traffic Signals – Installation Techniques
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to install poles, brackets and heads in accordance with manufacturing and/or company and legislative policies.2.
- Understand how to install cabinets in accordance with manufacturing and/or company and legislative policies.3.
- Understand how to install a combination of detection equipment
- Understand how to install and connect underground cables, supply tails and earth bonding.
22
Traffic Signals – Reactive Maintenance Techniques
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the common concepts associated with traffic controller operations so as to maintain a combination of cabinet types.2.
- Understand the principles of vehicle and pedestrian detection necessary to facilitate installation, commissioning and first-line maintenance key skills
- Understand the principles and common concepts associated with the understanding of underground cable maintenance
- Understand supply tails and earthing to accepted commissioned standards.5.
- Understand what is required to commission and carry out first-line maintenance key skills on specified pedestrian-crossing controller equipment
- Understand what is required to commission and carry out first-line maintenance key skills on specified junction controller equipment.7.
- Understand what is required to commission and carry out first-line maintenance key skills on specified detector equipment
23
Traffic Signals – Routine Maintenance Techniques
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to carry out routine maintenance, including lamp changing and cleaning.2.
- Understand how to maintain poles, brackets and lantern types in accordance with manufacturing and/or company and legislative policies.
24
Traffic Signals – Specific Techniques
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to inspect non-energised installations to ensure installations are in accordance with manufacturing/customer requirements and/or organisation and legislative policies.2.
- Understand the procedures to be used on highway electrical equipment when carrying out non-energised testing.
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 603/2166/0
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- Lantra Awards
- Qualification Type
- Vocationally-Related Qualification
- Operational Start
- Sept 2017