This course involves the skills and knowledge required to prepare and connect refrigeration and air conditioning piping/tubing and fittings.

It includes cutting, bending and connecting copper tubes to copper tubes and to brass and steel fittings by flaring and swaging using compression fittings and silver brazing.

The skills and knowledge in this unit will be applied by refrigeration and air conditioning technicians during the installation, service and repair of refrigeration and air conditioning systems.

To undertake this unit, the learner must have a Trainee Refrigerant Handling Licence as it includes work on refrigeration and air conditioning equipment that carries the risk of a fluorocarbon refrigerant being emitted.

The skills and knowledge described in this unit require a national Refrigerant Handling Licence as it includes work on refrigeration and air conditioning equipment that carries the risk of a fluorocarbon refrigerant being emitted while decanting the refrigerant or manufacturing, installing, commissioning, servicing, maintaining or decommissioning refrigeration and air conditioning equipment.

The skills and knowledge described in this unit may, in some jurisdictions, also require a licence or permit to practice in the workplace subject to regulations for undertaking refrigeration and air conditioning work.

Practice in the workplace and during training is also subject to work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) regulations.