Skills
Protect Self and Others
- Select, wear an adjust safety clothing and equipment
- Perform work in accordance with safety standards
- Identify, isolate and remove potential fire hazards
- Identify and correct potential work hazards
- Inspect and maintain roofing equipment
- Respond to emergency situations and co-worker’s injuries
- Report accidents and complete and submit incident reports
- Install warning o caution barriers
- Drain bitumen from kettles and tankers
- Clean kettles and tankers
- Inspect for and remove moisture from kettles and tankers
- Lift manual load
- Communicate with co-workers, clients and employers
- Practice safe working procedures and apply good housekeeping rules
- Handle, transport, store and use hazardous materials
- Operate fire extinguishing equipment
- Set-up and operate liquid vapour propane tanks and burners
- Install guard rails on perimeter and/or warning barriers
Plan for Installations
- Read and interpret architectural drawings and specifications
- Prepare sketches
- Read and interpret manufacturer’s manuals
- Conduct visual inspection of roof
- Document worn or damaged roof areas
- Conduct examination of roof surface
- Perform cut test on roofing system
- Inform employer/supervisor of roof condition
Prepare for Installations
- Load trucks with tools, materials and equipment
- Unload trucks
- Place and cover all materials
- Inspect Site
- Set-up kettles and tankers
- Perform pre-operational checks of kettles and tankers
- Take corrective action to pre-operational checks
- Fire up kettles and tankers
- Set-up compressors, pumps and spray equipment
- Set-up ladders and scafolds
- Set-up garbage chutes, disposal bins, hoppers, outriggers an required counterweights and tie backs
- Install interior and exterior protection
- Plug and unplug drains, power and intake vents and ducts
- Protect skylights and windows
- Arrange for dis- and re-connection of building services an equipment
- Remove existing flashing
- Remove loose gravel and debris
- Cut and remove roof membrane
- Locate and remove damaged insulation, sections or complete roof
- Check and repair roof condition
- Clean work site
- Clean and dry surfaces
- Prime surfaces
Rig and Hoist
- Tie off material and equipment
- Se-up manual and power hoists and counterweights
- Use hand signals
- Determine and calculate weight of load
- Set-up and operate conveying equipment
Use Hand/Power Tools and Equipment
- Select and use hand tools
- Select an use power tools/equipment
- Set-up, maintain and operate explosive actuated tools and accessories
- Set-up, maintain and operate spray equipment
- Set-up and operate pumps, air compressors and pneumatic equipment
- Set-up & operate internal combustion engines, attachments & components
- Operate manual and self-propelled equipment
- Set-up, operate and maintain torches, tanks, hoses and regulators
Apply water/damp proofing
- Apply enforcing damp and waterproofing membranes
- Apply protection boards
- Perform water and flood tests
Retrofit, Repair and Resurface Roofs
- Scrape and prepare surface
- Perform roof repairs
- Prime old membrane
- Repair or replace damaged roof components
- Apply new roofing surface
- Complete roof repairs
Install Conventional and Inverted Built-Up Roofing Systems
- Apply priming material to roofing surface
- Install acoustic and thermal insulation
- Install air seals, vapour barriers/retardants
- Apply gypsum board to metal or wood deck
- Install cant strips
- Fill containers and transport hot bitumen
- Install fasteners
- Install roofing membranes
- Install membrane flashings
- Floodcoat roof membrane
- Apply mastic
- Install gravel stops and drip edges
- Prepare and install temporary and permanent water cut-offs or tie-ins
- Install separation sheets for inverted roofs
- Install insulation for inverted roofs
Install Single-ply Roofing System
- Lay single-ply membrane
- Install field sheet system
- Seal side laps an end joints of field sheet
- Seal roof perimeters and projections
- Install walkways
- Install protective surface and/or ballast board/insulation, patio stones and aggregate
Install Shingles, Tiles & Preformed Rigid Sheeting Materials
- Install eaves protection under layments, drip edges, starter strips, valleys an saddles
- Fasten, trim, cut and fit shingles, step flashings, ridge and hip caps
- Install strapping and fastening strips
- Install tile, slate, cedar shakes & preformed single & sheet materials
- Caulk and seal
- Perform tie-ins and repairs on shingle, tile, slate, cedar shakes & pre-formed sheets
Install two-ply modified roofing system
- Install base sheet
- Install cap sheet
- Install base and cap flashing
For more information, see Ontario College of Trades Training Standards
