1. Describe the health and safety requirements of the area in which they are carrying out the fault diagnosis activities, and the responsibility these requirements place on the learner 2. Describe the specific safety precautions to be taken when carrying out fault diagnosis of the specific piece of equipment 3. Describe the isolation and lock-off procedure or permit-to-work procedure that applies 4. Describe the importance of wearing protective clothing and other appropriate safety equipment (PPE) during the fault diagnosis activities 5. Describe the hazards associated with carrying out fault diagnosis on mechanical equipment (such as moving machinery, handling oils and greases, stored pressure/force, misuse of tools, using practices or procedures that do not follow laid-down procedures), and how to minimise these and reduce any risks 6. Explain where to obtain, and how to interpret drawings, specifications, manufacturers' manuals and other documents needed in the fault diagnosis process 7. Describe the procedure to be adopted to establish the background of the fault 8. Explain how to evaluate various types of information available for fault diagnosis (such as operator reports, monitoring equipment, sensory information, machinery history records and condition of end product) 9. Describe the various fault finding techniques that can be used, and how they are applied (such as half-split, input/output, emergent problem sequence, six point technique, function testing, unit substitution, injection and sampling techniques, and equipment self diagnostics) 10. Explain how to use a range of fault diagnostic equipment to investigate the problem (such as measuring devices, torque and run-out devices) 11. Explain how to use various items of test equipment, and how to calibrate it and check that it is free from damage and defects 12. Explain how to evaluate sensory information (sight, sound, smell, touch) 13. Describe the procedure(s) to be followed for investigating the faults, and how to deal with intermittent faults 14. Explain how to analyse and evaluate possible characteristics and causes of specific faults/problems 15. Explain how to relate previous reports/records of similar fault conditions