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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 communication systems hazard and risk control fatigue management elimination of hazardous materials and substances safe forest practices including required actions relating to forest fire awareness of danger zone for kickback manual handling including shifting, lifting and carrying erection of warning signs potential falling objects procedures for cutting on slopes location of other workers |
Legislative requirements: | are to be in line with applicable Commonwealth, State or Territory legislation, regulations, certification requirements and codes of practice and may include: Australian Standards OHS the environment equal opportunity relevant industry codes of practice award and enterprise agreements industrial relations confidentiality and privacy duty of care heritage and traditional land owner issues |
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 fire prevention procedures communication systems recording and reporting requirements equipment use and maintenance and storage requirements environmental management requirements (waste disposal, recycling and re-use guidelines) access and equity principles and practices |
Trees may include: | hardwood trees softwood trees for production purposes |
Environmental protection measures may include: | action to limit the impact of noise, wind speed and direction, fallen trees, ground slope, ground hazards and obstacles, general forest lean action to limit the impact to ground growth, canopy, density of trees and may relate to: soil and water protection, contingencies for modifying operations during wet or other adverse weather conditions the safe disposal of waste material |
Job requirements: | may be determined by a coupe plan, operation plan or cutting schedules and may include: environmental and safety silviculture instructions for the trimming, cutting and despatch of harvested trees from the work site type, size, length, quantity and grade of product planned standard tolerances for length and angle relative to the log centre line minimum diameter, damage, shape and known length requirements maintenance of sharpened equipment |
Trimming may relate to: | branches burls and other small growths delimbing |
Tools and equipment may include: | chainsaws Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) maintenance tools fuel and oil containers chainsaw maintenance kit and may include ancillary equipment such as: hammer axe wedges cant hook or breaking bar first aid kit fire control equipment tool belt loggers tape warning signs chainsaw maintenance kit |
Communication may include: | verbal and non-verbal language hand or other agreed signals eye contact with other operators or personnel use of electronic devices |
Environmental requirements | may be assessed in relation to: ground growth ground slope ground hazards and obstacles |
Defects may include: | shakes insect defects knots and resin pockets pipe branches lumps bumps drysides |
Grade may include: | an evaluation of the log for defects, quality and size of log return |
Extraction refers to: | methods of removing the log from the worksite with mechanical equipment and cables, considering site conditions and specific log location |
Cutting pattern refers to: | the plan of cuts to optimise time and recovery of product from the tree |
Sequence of cuts refers to: | the order in which individual cuts are made to address issues of compression and tension and product quality and may include single or multiple cuts |
Pre start-up checks | may include checking: equipment has been set up correctly the systems are performing accurately equipment is operating to optimum performance |
Cutting technique may include: | bridging cuts swinging cuts side bind cuts delimbing boring wedge cut use of wedges |
Capping and splitting refers to: | defects caused by cutting activities |
Head of tree refers to: | the waste section of the tree containing the smaller branches and heavy foliage |
Records may include: | quality outcomes; hazards, incident reports, equipment malfunctions and damage may be compiled using a computer-based system or other appropriate organisational communication system to record and report |
Maintenance must include: | sharpening and may include: refuelling inspection, identification and replacement of bar, chain, drive sprockets bar oil checks and top up air filter check, clean and replacement cleaning of saw body, air intake vents and cooling fans fitting spare chain and tension chain |