Phase 1 Assessments Coming Up? Here's Exactly What 9289 Covers

🔧 Got your Phase 1 assessments coming up? Or just starting the 9289 and want to know exactly what Phase 1 covers? This is the episode. In Episode 2 of The Copper Connection Podcast, host Chris Bailey breaks down every unit assessed in 9289 Phase 1 — from the standalone Health and Safety exam right through to system layouts, scientific principles, and the practical assignment. This isn't a lecture. This is a real tutor talking directly to learners — in plain English, connecting the classroom to the workshop and the real world of building services. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 WHAT'S COVERED IN THIS EPISODE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 — Introduction & emotional hook 02:00 — Phase 1 assessment overview: 9289-001, 9289-011, and 9289-012 04:00 — Unit 301 Health & Safety — all 8 Learning Outcomes → LO1: Health & Safety legislation (HSWA 1974, COSHH, PUWER) → LO2: Hazardous situations, COSHH labels, asbestos awareness → LO3: PPE — what, when, and why → LO4: Responding to accidents and RIDDOR → LO5: Electrical safety and safe isolation → LO6: Heat producing equipment and the fire triangle → LO7: Working at height and access equipment → LO8: Excavations and confined spaces 05:00 — How to revise Unit 301 — 20 questions, 30 minutes, closed book 05:30 — Unit 302: Pipework, jointing methods, site prep, clips & brackets 06:30 — Unit 303 Scientific Principles (Phase 1): SI units, materials, mechanical principles 07:00 — Unit 304: The construction team, communication, responsibilities 08:30 — Unit 305: Cold water supply, fluid categories, and Water Regulations 09:00 — Unit 306 System Layouts — 12 questions, 30% of the exam, how to revise it 10:30 — Phase 1 practical assignment: what to expect, how to prepare 11:00 — The Unit 317 Work Log — start it now, not later 12:00 — Outro and Phase 2 teaser ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎓 WHO IS THIS FOR? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Plumbing and Domestic Heating Apprentices beginning Phase 1 (ST0303 Level 3) ✅ Level 2 Plumbing students progressing to Level 3 ✅ T-Level Building Services Engineering — Year 1 Core & Year 2 Occupational Specialism ✅ Learners who've sat Phase 1 and want to consolidate their understanding ✅ Tutors and assessors supporting 9289 delivery ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔑 KEY UNITS COVERED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Unit 301 — Health and Safety Systems Unit 302 — Common Installation Processes and Techniques Unit 303 — Scientific Principles (Phase 1: LO1, LO2, LO5) Unit 304 — Planning and Supervision (Phase 1) Unit 305 — Cold Water Treatment and Routing Unit 306 — Plumbing and Domestic Central Heating System Layouts Unit 317 — Work Log / Portfolio of Evidence (Phase 1 contribution) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Revision resources, episode notes & study materials: 👉 https://www.thecopperconnectionpodcas... 📌 Follow The Copper Connection on Spotify: 📌 Follow The Copper Connection on Apple Podcasts: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 MORE FROM THE COPPER CONNECTION — 9289 SERIES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶️ Episode 1 — Your Journey Starts Here: The Full 9289 Course Guide ▶️ Episode 3 — Phase 2: Systems, Science, and Getting It Installed Right ▶️ Episode 4 — Phase 3: The Final Core Phase — Commissioning to Completion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 ABOUT THE COPPER CONNECTION PODCAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Copper Connection is the UK podcast for plumbing and building services learners. Hosted by Chris Bailey, every episode is built to help apprentices, students, and trade learners understand their qualification, pass their exams, and build a career in the trade. Plain English. Real trade knowledge. No fluff. New episodes drop regularly — subscribe so you never miss one. #Plumbing #9289Phase1 #PlumbingRevision #HealthAndSafety #CityAndGuilds #PlumbingApprentice #BuildingServices #TLevel #Apprenticeship #Unit301 #Unit306 #SystemLayouts #CopperConnectionPodcast #PlumbingUK #ST0303 #TradeEducation #PlumbingExam #DomesticHeating