AHCWOL404A - Establish work routines and manage wool harvesting and preparation staff
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AHCWOL404A Establish work routines and manage wool harvesting and preparation staff
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Version 1.0 Issue Date: May 2024
This unit covers the functions required for a wool classer to establish shearers' work routines and manage shed staff and clip types.
This unit covers the establishment of work routines and management of wool harvesting and preparation staff and defines the standard required to: allocate and communicate staff roles and responsibilities; provide information on industrial arrangements to staff; perform shed staff duties including pen up, board person, wool handler; explain clip preparation requirements to shed staff; provide training to overcome capability shortfalls in individuals and the team; implement strategies to foster teamwork and trust and deal with conflict; monitor team and individual work performance and provide confirmatory or corrective feedback; implement environmental policies in the shearing workplace.
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Employability Skills
This unit contains employability skills.
Evidence Required
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The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria, required skills and knowledge, range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package.
Overview of assessment
Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit
The evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit must be relevant to workplace operations and satisfy holistically all of the requirements of the performance criteria and required skills and knowledge and include achievement of the following:
allocate and communicate staff roles and responsibilities
provide information on industrial arrangements to staff
explain clip preparation requirements to shed staff
provide training to overcome capability shortfalls in individuals and the team
implement strategies to foster teamwork and trust and deal with conflict
monitor team and individual work performance and provide confirmatory or corrective feedback
implement environmental policies in the shearing workplace.
Context of and specific resources for assessment
Competency requires the application of work practices under work conditions. Selection and use of resources for some worksites may differ due to the regional or enterprise circumstances.
Submission Requirements
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Assessment Tasks
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Required skills
supervise and instruct staff to achieve work activities
delegate and allocate tasks
identify and provide training requirements
plan and monitor ongoing training needs
demonstrate effective time management
demonstrate safe workplace and environmentally responsible practices
solve problems (staffing, resources)
motivate and performance manage staff
pen up sheep
monitor penned sheep
identify contaminants
pick up fleeces
handle non fleece wools
skirt fleeces
operate the wool press
weigh, brand and stack bales safely
record bale details
use oral communication skills/language competence to fulfil the job role as specified by the organisation including questioning, active listening, asking for clarification, negotiating solutions and responding to a range of views
use numeracy skills to estimate, calculate and record routine and more complex workplace measures and data
use interpersonal skills to work with others and relate to people from a range of cultural, social and religious backgrounds and with a range of physical and mental abilities.
Required knowledge
shearing industry Awards and personnel processes
principles of team work, negotiation and time management
instruction and coaching techniques
conflict management
communication for feedback and motivation
enterprise training requirements and processes.
relevant State/Territory legislation, regulations and Codes of Practice with regard to workplace OHS, environmental protection, and the use and control of hazardous substances and machinery and equipment
hazard identification, assessment and control
maintaining records
sheep behaviour
animal welfare
board duties
contamination
parts of the fleece
non fleece wools
wool press operating procedures
bale requirements.
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole.
Clip types may include:
merino
crossbred
other breeds.
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Observation Checklist
Tasks to be observed according to workplace/college/TAFE policy and procedures, relevant legislation and Codes of Practice
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Comments/feedback
Roles and responsibilities of shed staff are clearly defined.
Skills of shed staff are accurately identified and matched with available tasks and duties.
Requirements of job duties and Code of Practice are clearly identified and communicated to shed staff.
Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) policy and procedures are effectively communicated and implemented.
OHS hazards are identified, risks assessed and suitable controls are implemented.
The details of shearing, including flock and mob details, are communicated to staff
New staff are briefed on relevant awards, enterprise agreements, pay rates and related administration.
New staff are advised of terms and conditions and signed on.
New staff are familiarised with the workplace and colleagues.
Enterprise environmental policy and procedures are effectively communicated and implemented.
Board persons' duties are performed including picking up and throwing fleece, sweeping board and preparing non fleece wools.
Wool handlers' duties are performed including skirting and rolling a fleece, preparing non fleece wools and keeping wool area clean.
Pen up duties are performed including keeping mobs separate and monitoring and filling catching pens.
Wool pressers' activities are performed including keeping wool press area clean, pressing, branding, weighing and recording bale details in the wool book.
Individuals are encouraged to self-evaluate performance and identify areas for improvement.
Training needs are determined through appraisal of staff and the monitoring of work performance.
Practical skills are analysed and then explained and/or demonstrated as required.
Workplace learning opportunities are provided, with coaching and mentoring to support learning.
Staff responsibilities are adjusted to allow for practice and skills development where required.
Performance standards for clip preparation are established and communicated to individuals and the team.
Skirting requirements are explained, accurate and efficient technique demonstrated and skirtings ratio is monitored.
Requirements for separating specific parts of the fleece are clearly described to wool handlers and justified by Code of Practice or processor requirements.
Motivation strategies are used for shed staff to maintain a consistent focus on clip preparation standards and timing of operations.
Problems are recognised and addressed through discussion with work group.
Assistance is sought from work group members when difficulties arise in achieving allocated tasks.
Discussion and information sharing is routinely used to communicate requirements of work activities through a participative approach.
Disagreements and conflicts are managed constructively using appropriate conflict management strategies.
Feedback is clear, constructive and provided promptly to individuals to maintain high quality clip preparation.
Confirmatory feedback is provided to emphasise good performance and technique and its importance for clip quality.
Corrective feedback is provided in a constructive way, including an explanation of the effects of poor performance or incorrect technique and strategies for improvement.
Under performance is addressed both on an individual and team basis.
Clip data is used to share feedback on clips prepared with team members.
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