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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for agricultural crop harvesting operations
   • Instructions about crop harvesting activities are interpreted and clarified with the supervisor.
   • Machinery, equipment and tools are selected and prepared for the task being undertaken.
   • Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) hazards are identified, risks assessed and reported to the supervisor.
   • Suitable personal protective equipment is selected, used and maintained.
2. Prepare harvesting machinery and vehicles for crop harvesting operations
   • Harvesting machinery and vehicles are fuelled and routine checks are made for oil levels, tyre pressures, and water levels and greasing points.
   • Instructions are received concerning location of the day's harvesting program, special operating instructions or work procedures.
3. Complete harvesting operation
   • Harvesting machinery and vehicles are cleaned according to enterprise procedures and the manufacturer's specifications.
   • All containers, leftover fluids, waste and harvest debris is disposed of safely and appropriately.
   • All required workplace records are completed accurately and promptly in accordance with enterprise requirements.

Required Skills

Required skills

identify hazards and follow safety directions participate in teams and contribute to team objectives read and interpret a range of workplace information calibrate equipment measure quantities of treatment operate machinery to manufacturers specifications and enterprise procedures use literacy skills to follow sequenced written instructions and record information accurately and legibly use oral communication skillslanguage competence to fulfil the job role as specified by the organisation including questioning active listening asking for clarification and seeking advice from supervisor use numeracy skills to estimate calculate and record routine workplace measures use interpersonal skills to relate to people from a range of social cultural and ethnic backgrounds and with a range of physical and mental abilities

Required knowledge

harvesting machinery and equipment basic maintenance harvesting machinery and equipment servicing hazard identification and safe work practices in harvesting types of crops and their characteristics crop hygiene requirements OHS requirements environmental impacts and procedures for crop harvesting

Evidence Required

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 prepare harvesting machinery and equipment to harvest crops operate vehicles and machinery safely and as directed to support the harvesting team carry out routine checks and refuelling of harvesting vehicles and machinery dispose of waste liquids and harvest debris according to environmental procedures record information as requested
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

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Range Statement

The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole.
Agricultural crops may include:	canola wheat hay barley oats rice triticale maize millet chickpeas cotton faba beans lucerne lupins pigeon peas sorghum soybean sugar sunflower other crops grown as part of a broadacre mixed farming enterprise not specifically named as horticultural crops.

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