Spectacle maker / Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Training

Health & Security

• how to adjust to present well being & security at work laws and rules together with COSHH, PPE within the work setting.
• secure dealing with of supplies and work processes that guarantee the security of self and others, together with strategies for the secure and sustainable disposal of waste supplies.

Materials

• the properties, makes use of and limitations of supplies used for spectacle making together with forms of resin, plastics, glass and metals.
• methods for safeguarding, transferring, dealing with and storing supplies.

Instruments

the important thing optical instruments and tools used, the rules of how they work, and the way they’re ready, maintained and safely used, together with:

• hand instruments similar to precision screwdrivers and optical pliers.
• checking instruments together with focimeter, lensmeters, calipers and base clocks.
• course of instruments together with Laps and pads.
• slicing, planing and sprucing tools, drills, tinting baths and coating machines.

High quality

• the appliance and monitoring of the employer’s high quality requirements together with strategies of recording work.

Building of spectacles

• the method of spectacle making and the weather and rules for the development of spectacles.
• typical development of spectacles and work observe and any restrictions positioned on the development together with availability of lens varieties / body limitations.

The manufacture, service and restore of spectacles

• the right way to diagnose, analyse and assess for restore or manufacturing choices.
• the right way to assess and advise on the suitable degree of intervention that could be required.
• costings and the method of searching for approval for work.
• the right way to apply arithmetic and the optical science mandatory for the manufacturing of prescription and non-prescription lenses.
• attainable manufacturing issues which can happen and the way to reply to them.

Well being & Security and dealing setting

• preserve good requirements of well being and security for self and for others, utilizing secure working practices.
• put together and preserve a secure working setting, the place each hand instruments and mechanical instruments are prevalent.
• determine and minimise hazards and dangers within the working setting.

Technical interpretation and understanding

• create and interpret technical optical specs, drawings, and different written and verbal directions for the manufacture and restore of spectacles, together with the identification and acceptable response to issues, together with testing and adjustment, searching for recommendation and steerage as acceptable.

Manufacturing and restore processes

• choose and use the suitable processes, methods, supplies, instruments and tools for manufacture or restore of spectacles and undertake the spectacle making course of from inception to realisation.
• take away and dismantle elements and merchandise, correcting faults and re-assembly of spectacles to the suitable customary.

Instruments and tools

• perform testing and adjustment of spectacles, together with lens conformity, body set-up and beauty checks.
• preserve supplies and tools as acceptable, together with grinding and sprucing tools, meeting instruments, (precision screwdrivers, optical pliers, routers), measuring gadgets (focimeters and lensmeters, base clocks and calipers).

High quality

• work to the suitable optical high quality requirements and techniques, with environment friendly use of time, supplies and assets.
• document work and both self-evaluate or get hold of suggestions from others to enhance work and dealing observe.

 High quality focussed

• comply with insurance policies and procedures, have a robust consideration to element and apply high quality assurance checks by the spectacle restore or manufacturing course of.

 Professionalism

• have a robust skilled work ethic together with delight in your work and a spotlight to element.
• plan and handle time successfully.

Self- growth

• hold updated with finest observe and rising applied sciences inside the optical sector.
• get hold of and provide constructive suggestions to others, and develop and preserve skilled relationships.

Safety oriented

• concentrate on and undertake the processes and procedures for the secure manufacturing or restore of spectacles for each self and others.