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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 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 and maintenance and storage requirements environmental management requirements (waste disposal, recycling and re-use guidelines) |
Work order is to include: | instructions for coordinating hook tender operations from the work site and may include type size length quantity grade instructions for the environmental monitoring of work and procedures environmental care requirements relevant to the work |
Appropriate personnel may include: | supervisors suppliers clients colleagues managers |
Cable recovery equipment may include: | yarders spars rigging equipment cables |
Environmental protection measures may include: | ground growth canopy general forest lean wind speed and direction fallen trees density of trees ground slope soil and water protection ground hazards obstacles contingencies for modifying operations during wet or other adverse weather conditions |
Equipment is to include: | refer to cable recovery equipment procedures for equipment lock-out such as protecting operators and co-workers from accidental injury by isolating the machine |
Hooker (hook tender) | is the cable logging team leader who decides which method of logging will be the fastest and most efficient, and also designs, plans and coordinates the establishment of cable recovery systems (the higher the hooker can get the logs off the ground means fewer broken logs, hang ups and snags) |
Cable operations may include: | activities covering a full range of species, log sizes, falling and retention densities, slope, other environmental conditions the use of cable systems including high lead (no skyline), standing skyline and a running skyline with hauling both uphill and downhill logs attached optimising payload without exceeding the lift or haul capacity of the system |
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 body language |
Landing | is the location where the yarder is positioned to receive the logs |
Hauling boundaries | are designated forest coupes owned privately, by Government or by the forestry organisation with boundaries which fall within survey pegs for the land allocated for logging |
Topography | is a map of the designated area showing terrain levels |
System design additions are to include: | multispans blind leads bridling other techniques potentially reducing extraction efficiency |
Yarder | is the crane-like vehicle which winches the timber from the felling site to the landing using a cable system |
Lines are to include: | mainlines haulback lines skylines strawlines extensions guylines |
Components may include: | carriages jacks butt rigging chokers grapples blocks sheaves ropes shackles pins tail rope straps intermediate supports |
Anchors are to include: | anchors tailholds block stumps mobile backstops |
Extractionsequence | is the method of removing the log from the work site with mechanical equipment and cables, considering site conditions and specific log location, in a way which minimises downtime and risk of snags, breakage and hang ups |
Obstructions may include: | standing trees stumps rocks ground projections |
Line shifts | are the moving of rigging lines from one area of operation to a new area |
Support trees | are trees (with heads removed) which can act as spars and be rigged accordingly |
Spars | are out-posted erections which provide elevation for the cables some distance from the yarder tower |
Towers | are the crane like raised towers which the cables operate from to provide height for extraction of logs. |
Guylines | support the tower or spar and other rigged erections to provide stability and strength during operation |
Climbing and pass line equipment | are lines linked to the drum line for the purposes of climbing trees and spars |
Guys | refer to guylines |
Records and reports may include: | cable recovery operations extraction methods hazards incidents equipment malfunctions and may be: manual using a computer-based system or another appropriate organisational communication system |