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The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. |
OHS requirements: | are to be in line with applicable commonwealth, state or territory legislation and regulations, and organisational safety policies and procedures, and may include: personal protective equipment and clothing safety equipment first aid equipment fire fighting equipment hazard and risk control fatigue management elimination of hazardous materials and substances safe forest practices, including required actions relating to forest fire manual handling including shifting, lifting and carrying |
Environmental requirements may include: | legislation organisational policies and procedures workplace practices |
Legislative requirements: | are to be in line with applicable commonwealth, state or territory legislation, regulations, certification requirements and codes of practice and may include: award and enterprise agreements industrial relations Australian Standards confidentiality and privacy OHS the environment equal opportunity anti-discrimination relevant industry codes of practice duty of care |
Organisational requirements may include: | legal organisational and site guidelines policies and procedures relating to own role and responsibility quality assurance procedural manuals quality and continuous improvement processes and standards OHS, emergency and evacuation procedures ethical standards recording and reporting requirements equipment use, maintenance and storage requirements environmental management requirements (waste minimisation and disposal, recycling and re-use guidelines) |
Boards may be produced by: | resawing larger boards, for example, recovering boards from one edge at each pass splitting a larger board into two or more sections |
Timber may be: | solid manufactured by lamination of boards or veneers |
Work order is to include: | details of material to be resawn special client requirements production timelines instructions for the environmental monitoring of work and procedures environmental care requirements relevant to the work |
Appropriate personnel may include: | supervisors clients colleagues line management |
Equipment may include: | simple saw benches necessitating significant manual handling, to more complex handling arrangements using conveyor systems to transfer and position material circular or band saws single or multiple saws |
Communication may include: | verbal and non-verbal language constructive feedback active listening questioning to clarify and confirm understanding use of positive, confident and cooperative language use of language and concepts appropriate to individual social and cultural differences control of tone of voice |
Cutting processes involve: | adjusting saws, carriage and feeds to suit dimensions and cutting sequence selected |
Regularly clearing work area may include: | area around equipment and conveyors clearing timber scraps around equipment and conveyors regularly monitoring conveyors for material flow problems |
Problems may relate to: | equipment faults and malfunctions quality of product and machine settings transfer and flow of material routine sawing problems feed rate and product finish infeed and outfeed systems damage to sawn board damage to saw blade timber positioning |
Disposing of may include: | recycling damaged sawn material re-using damaged sawn material redirecting damaged sawn material for energy recovery |
Faults may include: | blunt or damaged saw blade problems with the carriage or feeds inadequate supply of materials disruption to continuity of flow sub-optimal production rate and finish |
Maintenance may include: | cleaning the machine of wood chips and sawdust replacing blunt cutters or saw blades inspecting machine parts for wear or damage (including guards) greasing and lubricating moving parts checking the operation of emergency stop buttons and lock-out systems |
Dealing with may include: | repairing or sending for repair blunt cutters or saw blades recycling blunt cutters or saw blades that cannot be repaired sending blunt cutters or saw blades that cannot be repaired to landfill |
Records and reports may include: | tally sheets quality sheets and forms production sheets and downtime sheets and may relate to: production details maintenance details breakdowns or equipment faults computer problems interruptions to production and may be: manual computer-based system other appropriate organisational communication system |