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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare site and equipment
   • Determine location of above-and-below-ground services
   • Undertake a site-specific risk assessment by identifying work health and safety hazards and assessing risk
   • Assess site conditions for requirements of equipment, personnel and access
   • Determine appropriate pruning tools, equipment and machinery according to pruning specification and site-specific assessment
   • Record and implement work health, safety, site, environmental and traffic control measures
2. Supervise and monitor tree operations
   • Supervise and confirm site establishment conforms to requirements
   • Confirm toolbox meeting participation and documentation
   • Confirm tree evaluation from hazard evaluation report provided
   • Implement written specification for pruning works
   • Communicate written specification to work team and confirm response
   • Conduct safety audit of personnel, equipment, machinery and documentation
   • Resolve areas of conflict with work team and individuals
   • Monitor safety issues arising from drug and alcohol use
   • Promote work team-building exercises
   • Document areas of improvement in work operations
   • Issue verbal and written improvement notices
3. Audit and report tree operations
   • Monitor pruning techniques for compliance to the written specifications and AS 4373
   • Estimate and record volume of pruning program works
   • Audit quality of pruning works
   • Document and record additional pruning works required
   • Report compliance and audit results

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must be assessed on their ability to integrate and apply the performance requirements of this unit in a workplace setting. Performance must be demonstrated consistently over time and in a suitable range of contexts.

The candidate must provide evidence for and demonstrate:

determining location of above-and-below-ground services

undertaking a site-specific risk assessment by identifying work health and safety hazards and assessing risk

assessing site conditions for requirements of equipment, personnel and access

determining appropriate pruning tools, equipment and machinery according to pruning specification and site-specific assessment

recording and implement work health, safety, site, environmental and traffic control measures

supervising and confirm site establishment conforms to requirements

confirming toolbox meeting participation and documentation

confirming tree evaluation from hazard evaluation report provided

using provided written specification for pruning works

communicating written specification to work team and confirm response

conducting safety audit of personnel, equipment, machinery and documentation

supervising and monitor tree operations

documenting areas of improvement in work operations

issuing verbal and written improvement notices

monitoring pruning techniques for compliance to the written specifications and as 4373

estimating and record volume of pruning program works

auditing quality of pruning works

documenting and record additional pruning works required

reporting compliance and audit results

use of industry standard terminology to describe supervision and audit operations.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

location of above-and-below-ground services

site-specific risk assessment

work health and safety hazards

work health, safety, site, environmental and traffic control measures

site conditions

appropriate pruning tools, equipment and machinery

pruning specification

site establishment

conformance to requirements

toolbox meeting

tree evaluation

hazard evaluation

written specification for pruning works

safety audit of personnel, equipment, machinery and documentation

verbal and written improvement notices

compliance to the written specifications

tree operations

auditing quality of pruning works

compliance and audit results

work health and safety in the context of own work.

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