ORAL QUESTIONING TOOL

Questions to probe the candidate’s underpinning knowledge Satisfactory

response

Extension/Reflection Questions Yes No

1. How will you secure and interpret work instruction
given to you?
2. If you are going to produce work plan, why should it be
in line with work instruction?
3. How are you going to check the area to be tiled?
4. What will you do if you were asked to lay-out tiles?
5. In preparing and dry-laying tiles, what are the things
you need to consider?
6. Give one bedding type for tiles?
7. How will you prepare and apply tile adhesive?
8. What are the things you need to consider when
installing tiles?
9. How will you prepare regular and special cut tiles?
10. How will you prepare and submit environmental and
safety reports?

Safety Questions
1. Can you give at least three personal protective
equipment necessary in tile setting and how to use it.
2. Identify safety and quality requirements in line with
Occupational Safety and Health Standards (OSHS)
3. What will you do if someone in your workmates
accidentally cut himself?
4. How will you ensure you are complying with OSHS
while working?
Contingency Questions

1. What will you do if you noticed that the miter cut you
will doing is no longer uniform?

2. What are you going to do if you noticed a dry tiling

adhesives when cleaning and preparing joints for
grouting?
3. What will you do if at the moment, the electric mixing
paddle is not available and you need to mix grout?
4. What are you going to do if after sealing the surface and
tile grout, it fails the water drop test?
Job Role/Environment Questions
1. What will you do before tiling?
2. How will you use surface treatment method?

3. What is the best way in order for you to complete the

required output?

4. Explain the importance of 3R and 5S when working.

5. How will you arrange pattern tiles?

6. How will you install cut tiles?

7. How will you clean and seal tile surface?

8. How will you ensure to maintain a uniform gap in

between tiles?

9. What will you do to the excess materials after usage?

10. What will you do to the tools and equipment

after usage?

Rules and Regulations

1. What does PD 1152 tell us and what is the importance
of adopting the said law?
2. What does the DOLE Department Order No. 13 series
of 1998 is telling?
3. Is Reporting waste materials following Occupational
health and safety/ environmental management plans
important?
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Questions to probe the candidate’s underpinning knowledge

Extension/Reflection Questions
1. Approach your supervisor and ask for the work instruction. As the
work instruction was given to you, you can jot it down to your book or
notes. Or if the work instruction was in written form, you can secure
it to a safe storage area. Then Look at it and identify the salient part
of the work instruction. If there are unclear features, ask your
supervisor for clarification.
2. The work instruction is based to the clientele’s request following rules
and laws related to building and construction. Therefore, anchoring
your work plan to work instruction will ensure that you are doing the
right thing and making your future work strong and stable.
3. Approach the area, assess it and have an ocular visit.
4. Prepare all the tools and materials needed then wear PPE. After that
proceed in lay-outing by starting on determining the highest surface.
5. Right tools and materials to be used and proper mixture of the dry
pack.
6. Ply wood, cementitious, polymer based
7. Use right tool for mixing tile adhesive, then with the use of notched
trowel, spread it in the surface where the tile will be installed. Used
rubber mallet to ensure that surfaces are properly aligned.
8. Alignment, mixture of tile adhesive, right tools and, materials, safety
and health of the worker.
9. Use the right tile cutter in cutting. Remove excess parts if there is.
10. Assess the working area and input all the necessary information and
make sure to double check it before submitting to the concern
personnel.
Safety Questions
1. Safety goggles – to protect the eyes from splashes of chemicals. Put
it in your eyes.
Face mask – put it in your face covering the nose, mouth and chin.
To protect the nose, from inhaling dangerous substances. And to
protect the mouth and part of the face on getting dirt.
Safety gloves – wear it in the hands to avoid skin burns, and cuts.
High visibility vest – wear it in your body for you to be easily seen
by your workmates.
Knee pads – put it in the knees to protect it from sand and
pebbles.

2. Correct use of appropriate PPE, follow SOP, no horse playing, and

use the right tool for the right job.
3. Report immediately to the trainer. Apply first aid if possible.
4. By checking all the actions if it is right and anchored to safety and
health at work.

Contingency Questions

1. Stop and then re check your measurement.

2. Apply grout remover and remove the grout using grout rake. After
that, brush it and use hot water.

3. You can manually mixed it inside the bucket.

4. Re apply the seal then wait for it to dry before doing the test again
J1. Clean the working area or the tiling area with the appropriate
tool. Also prepare the tools and materials to be used for tiling.
Job Role/Environment Questions
1. Prepare all the materials needed and then clean the working area.
2. Treat the surface by removing all the unnecessary things such as
loos plaster, nails, screw photos and the like. Sand the surface if
necessary then wipe off the dust. Then soak the surface with water.
 3. Do time management and focus on your work while constantly
referring to the work instruction in order for you to be productive
and complete the required output.

4. With the use of 5S, the working are became safe and good for working
making the workers productive. And with the use of 3Rs, we can help
the environment be sustainable.

5. Always be aware of the pattern. In this case, you may first discover
the pattern by laying the tiles in any surface before laying it to the
designated place.

6. Put a tile adhesive in the surface, make the tile wet, then install it
using a level bar.

7. According to standards and specification

8. Always use the recommended tile spacer.

9. Clean and return it to the warehouse

10. Clean and return to the ware house

Rules and Regulations

1. It gives provision of act to protect the environment. The importance
of adopting the law is to ensure that our environment will still be safe
for living and is sustainable.
2. It govern the guidelines to govern occupational safety and health in
the construction industry
3. Yes. In order to ensure that our environment will still be safe and in
good condition for the future inhabitants of the world