South Africa: Standards of Practice Course
Welcome to InterNACHI's free, online South Africa: Standards of Practice course.
Goal:
The goal of this course is to teach the student how to perform an inspection according to InterNACHI's South African Standards of Practice. It covers the various components and systems that should be inspected and those that need not be inspected.
Objectives:
After successful completion of
this course, the student will be able to:
- perform an inspection of a home according to the South African Standards;
- define the systems and components of the Standards; and
- list and describe the systems and components of the Standards.
This class is free to InterNACHI members and non-members alike, and can be taken as often as desired with no penalty for failure. In keeping with our educational policies, this course counts 4 hours toward InterNACHI South Africa’s annual Continuing Education requirements.
Reminder to members:
InterNACHI's Code of Ethics
1.10 requires that you comply with all government rules and licensing
requirements of the jurisdiction where you conduct business.
InterNACHI's courses and Standards generally exceed the Standards of
Practice that you are required to abide by locally.
Topics include:
- Introduction
- Definitions and Scope
- Quiz
- Limitations, Exceptions, & Exclusions
- Quiz
- Roof Inspection
- Quiz
- Exterior Inspection
- Quiz
- Foundation and Structure
- Cellar, Under-floor Spaces & Structure
- Quiz
- Heating Systems
- Quiz
- Fireplace Inspection
- Quiz
- Cooling Systems
- Quiz
- Plumbing Inspection
- Quiz
- Roofspace Inspection
- Quiz
- Doors, Windows & Interior
- Quiz
- 4 CPD (or Continuing Education) credit hours;
- 75 quiz quizzes;
- 100-question final exam (drawn from a larger pool);
- instant grading; and
- a downloadable, printable Certificate of Completion.
Upon completion of this course and passing of
the 100-question final exam (drawn from a larger pool), the student can
download and print their own
Certificate of Completion which is auto-generated in their own name.
The student's (InterNACHI member's) information is recorded on
InterNACHI's servers for membership compliance verification, and
automatically logs completion into InterNACHI's online Continuing
Education log. It counts as four InterNACHI
Continuing Education hours.
Some features which make InterNACHI's courses superior to existing continuing education options:
- The course is free for all InterNACHI members.
- The course is written in pure XHTML code for quick
loading. The course loads fine on old computers and loads fast, even
with dial-up.
- The course is designed using a hierarchal menu
coupled with a sequential page navigation. This provides the student
with the option to easily repeat areas of weakness.
- The course permits the student to start, stop and restart any part of the course as often as desired.
- There are a variety of images within the course, including diagrams, illustrations and pictures of actual roofs.
- The illustrations can be enlarged for clearer viewing by clicking on them.
- The text is integrated into InterNACHI's Inspector Glossary. Rolling over blue-colored terms provides their definition.
- The final exam uses multiple-choice questions that reference the images.
- The course's quizzes and final exam have numerous advantages over traditional exam systems:
- The course, quizzes and final exam incorporate
built-in intelligence which identifies and strengthens each student's
unique subject weaknesses.
- Not only is each question weighted with regard to
score, but each answer is weighted, as well as the correctness of each
answer being weighted.
- Answers to easy questions are weighted such that the
student is penalized, in terms of score, for answering incorrectly, but
rewarded modestly for answering correctly.
- Answers to difficult questions are weighted such that
the student is rewarded, in terms of score, for answering correctly,
but not penalized for answering incorrectly.
- Answers to questions regarding basic safety, or
questions every inspector should know the answer to, are weighted such
that the student is severely penalized, in terms of score, for answering
incorrectly.
- Upon passing the final exam, the student can print out a Certificate of Completion which is auto- generated in their own name.
The student's (InterNACHI member's) information is
recorded on InterNACHI's servers for membership compliance verification,
and automatically logs completion into InterNACHI's online Continuing
Education log.