Use gardening equipment

Description

Use gardening equipment such as clippers, sprayers, mowers, chainsaws, complying to health and safety regulations.

Alternative labels

using garden tools
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Skill type

skill/competence

Skill reusability level

sector-specific

Relationships with occupations

Essential skill

Use gardening equipment is an essential skill of the following occupations:

Horticulture worker: Horticulture workers carry out practical activities and assist in nurseries or greenhouses for the production of horticultural crops.
Garden labourer: Garden labourers perform simple tasks in cultivating and maintaining flowers, trees and shrubs. This work can take place in either parks or private gardens.
Groundsman/groundswoman: Groundsmen/groundswomen provide landscape and lawn services and maintain grounds for private households, commercial and public facilities, schools, hotels, botanical gardens, golf courses, parks and athletic fields.

Hop farmer: Hop farmers plant, cultivate and harvest hops for the production of commodities such as beer.
Landscape gardener: Landscape gardeners plan, construct, renovate and maintain parks, gardens and public green spaces.

Optional skill

Use gardening equipment is optional for these occupations. This means knowing this skill may be an asset for career advancement if you are in one of these occupations.

Nanny: Nannies provide qualified care services to children on the premises of the employer. They organise play activities and entertain children with games and other cultural and educative activities according to their respective age, prepare meals, give them bathes, transport them from and to school and assist them with homework on a punctual basis.
Building caretaker: Building caretakers maintain and monitor the condition and security of buildings. They clean, assist with minor repairs and ensure that amenities such as heating and hot water are available to the residents. Building caretakers are responsible for the quality of buildings and also serve as a contact person for residents.
Fruit production team leader: Fruit production team leaders are responsible for leading and working with a team. They organise daily work schedules for the production of fruit crops and participate in the production processes.
Domestic butler: Domestic butlers serve at official meals, monitor meal preparations and table setting and manage the household staff. They may also offer personal assistance in booking travel arrangements and restaurants, valeting and clothing care.
Horticulture production team leader: Horticulture production team leaders are responsible for leading and working with a team. They organise daily work schedules for the production of horticulture crops and participate in the production.

House sitter: House sitters move in the house of their employers in order to maintain security of the property during their absence. They monitor entrance areas and prevent unauthorized persons from entering the house, inspect conditions of the facility such as plumbing and heating and contact repairers if necessary. House sitters may also do some cleaning activities, forward mail and pay bills.
Horticulture production manager: Horticultural production managers plan the production, manage the enterprise and participate in the production
Companion: Companions perform housekeeping duties and meal preparation for the people they assist on their own premises such as elderly people or people with special needs or who suffer from an illness. They also provide entertainment activities such as playing cards or reading stories. They may do shopping activities as well as punctual transportation to doctor’s appointments, etc.
Au pair: Au pairs live and work for a host family in another country and are usually in charge of taking care of the family’s children. They are young individuals, seeking to explore another culture while providing child care services as well as other light housekeeping activities such as cleaning, gardening and shopping.
Road maintenance worker: Road maintenance workers perform routine inspections of roads, and are sent out to perform repairs when called for. They patch potholes, cracks and other damage in roads.

 


 

References

  1. Use gardening equipment – ESCO

 

Last updated on September 20, 2022