National Precast Micro-Credentials
- Smarter Skills for You and Your Team
Available Australia-wide - Online, Flexible, Job-Ready Training
Whether you’re a worker building your skills, a manager strengthening your team, or a professional working with precast, these micro-credentials are the smart way to upskill in precast.
- Open to anyone working in or with precast, across Australia
- 100% online, flexible, self-paced — fit it around your job
- Earn an industry-recognised Certificate: Fundamentals of Precast Concrete when all 10 are completed
- Job-ready skills — improve safety, quality, and productivity
- Great for CVs, team morale, and career progression
- Proudly supported by the Queensland Government
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MC1: Working With the Precast Industry
- Precast basics — what it is, where it’s used, benefits and the science of concrete
- Types of precast elements in building and infrastructure
- Precast’s role in sustainability
- Design and manufacturing
- Factory safety, quality, environmental systems
- Key rules, codes, standards
- Reinforcement basics — why, types, placement
- Precast plant and equipment
- Teamwork and communication
- Industry associations
MC2: Safety and Environmental Management in Precast
- Safety, environment, and sustainability essentials
- Safety laws(including Chain of Responsibility), codes, standards
- Hazard management, signage, PPE
- Environmental laws, codes, standards, guides
- Environmental management
- Emergency response
MC3: Quality Management in Precast
- What quality means and why it matters
- Systems, what is checked and when, technologies, audits
- QA vs QC
- Quality standards, codes, guides
- Quality processes, tolerances, testing
- Quality documentation
- Outcomes and audits
MC4: Interpreting Precast Plans and Documentation
- Why plans and documents matter
- Laws, codes, standards and specifications
- Reading drawings, specs, schedules
- Understanding shop drawings, ITPs, safety docs, transport plans, site plans etc
MC5: Precast Tools, Plant, and Equipment
- Tools, plant, equipment for mould assembly, casting, vibrating, finishing
- Safety, environmental, quality tools
- Reinforcement, moulds, casting, curing, finishing, handling gear
- Licensing, training
- Storage, maintenance
MC6: Reinforcement and Cage Assembly
- Role, types, materials
- Australian standards
- Plans and schedules
- Assembly of reinforcement
- Prestressing
- Safe handling, storage
MC7: Mould Assembly, Casting and Finishing
- Mould materials, types, components, tools
- Preparations for assembly
- Assembly
- Pre-pour checks, placing, finishing
- Classes of finish
- Post-pour checks
- Curing
MC8: Curing, Demoulding, Post-cure Finishing and Remedial Work
- Sustainable curing and finishing
- Curing processes, controls, advanced technologies
- Demoulding
- Post-cure finishes – architectural and newer finishes
- Surface defect identification, repairs
- Structural defect identification, repairs
MC9: Lifting, Handling, Storage and Transport of Precast Elements
- Lift design, planning
- Laws, standards, codes, guides
- PPE
- Lifting and handling machinery
- Lifting equipment, componentry
- Safe Working Loads, Working Load Limits
- Storage, maintenance
MC10: Prestressed Precast
- What prestressing is
- Types of elements
- Laws, standards, codes, guides
- Safety
- Impact of concrete types
- Prestressing methods
- Moulds, materials
- Components
- Prestressing by element type
- Typical prestressing process