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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for maintenance
   • Confirm work with supervisor
   • Select tools and supplies appropriate to job requirements and confirm against maintenance plan
   • Inspect tools for serviceability and prepare for use
   • Identify work health and safety hazards and report safety concerns to the supervisor
2. Perform scheduled maintenance
   • Undertake basic servicing tasks of machinery
   • Adjust equipment appropriately
   • Apply basic diagnostic techniques and identify and fix mechanical faults
   • Report more serious or complex faults for referral
3. Complete maintenance activities
   • Clean and store tools
   • Collect, treat and dispose or recycle waste from maintenance activities according to enterprise environmental requirements
   • Clean, return to operating condition, and maintain work areas
   • Complete enterprise records of machinery maintenance

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 that they can:

identify work health and safety hazards and report to supervisor

select and prepare tools and equipment

carry out lubrication and operational servicing

conduct basic diagnostic tests

report simple faults and report and tag more serious faults

collect, remove and recycle or dispose of wastes according enterprise environmental policies

maintain records of machinery maintenance

follow enterprise work health and safety policies

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

types and uses of lubricants and other commonly used servicing materials

operational principles of machinery including mechanical and auto-electrical systems

servicing characteristics of plant and equipment

types, characteristics, uses and limitations of hand power tools

functions of components of common mechanical and hydraulic systems

different working principles of 2-stroke, 4-stroke, petrol and diesel engines

set-up requirements of plant and equipment, and principles of calibration

basic diagnostic processes and techniques

environmental Codes of Practice with regard to maintenance activities

work health and safety, environmental legislative and enterprise requirements and Codes of Practice

hazard identification procedures

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