Manual Heating and Cutting Skills for Fabricators is a beginner-level course designed to equip learners with the essential knowledge and techniques to perform safe and effective manual heating and thermal cutting tasks. Whether you're starting out in fabrication or need to enhance your oxy-fuel cutting skills, this course builds confidence in handling heating and cutting tools to work with ferrous and non-ferrous metals in a workshop environment.

What You Will Learn:
• Understand the purpose and applications of manual heating and thermal cutting in metal fabrication
• Identify job requirements from specifications, drawings, and work instructions
• Follow Work Health and Safety (WHS) procedures and use appropriate PPE
• Select, inspect, and assemble heating and cutting equipment including cylinders, hoses, regulators, and flashback arrestors
• Adjust gas pressures and safely operate oxy-fuel systems
• Perform manual heating and cutting operations with correct technique and allowances
• Identify and correct common cutting defects and minimise material wastage
• Inspect the final product to ensure it meets specified size and quality standards