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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify and confirm maintenance requirements
   • Confirm work instructions with supervisor
   • Identify hazards and report to supervisor
   • Select and fit appropriate personal protective equipment
   • Inspect structures and facilities to locate and evaluate defects, deterioration and impending defects
   • Check property infrastructure and resources for correct operation, minor maintenance needs and damage
   • Confirm maintenance plan
2. Select and prepare tools, equipment and materials
   • Select and check tools, equipment and materials for serviceability
   • Identify and segregate for repair or replacement faulty or unsafe tools
   • Identify, assess and report existing and potential hazards to health and safety
   • Select and fit personal protective equipment
3. Carry out routine maintenance
   • Carry out routine maintenance to infrastructure, structures and facilities
   • Carry out minor repairs to building cladding and paint
4. Complete maintenance activities
   • Clean, maintain and store worksite, tools and materials
   • Collect, treat and dispose of or recycle unwanted materials and waste from maintenance activities
   • Complete workplace records

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must be observed and repairing properties and structures, in a situation that does not require the specialist skills of another trade.

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 that they can:

identify hazards and following safe work practices

interpret and apply task instructions

communicate with work team and supervisor

select, prepare and safely use of a broad range of tools

carry out routine maintenance to infrastructure, structures and facilities

store or dispose of unused or waste materials

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

characteristics, capabilities and limitations of materials, equipment and tools

operation of water taps and reticulation systems

types of building cladding and finishes, purpose and use

identification of defects and appropriate repair methods

appropriate selection of repair materials

work health and safety legislative requirements and Codes of Practice

relevant Codes of Practice and procedures with regard to protection of the environment

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