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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare and use tools, equipment and machinery
   • Identify required materials, tools and equipment according to lists provided and supervisor's instructions
   • Check all materials, tools and equipment and inform supervisor of insufficient or faulty items
   • Use correct manual handling techniques at all times
   • Use suitable personal protective equipment selected as directed by supervisor and ensure correct fit
   • Inform supervisor if any risks are identified
   • Clarify channels for communicating with workers
2. Maintain a clean and safe workplace
   • Locate services using site plans and clarify with the supervisor
   • Sweep, wash and treat floors, benches and other flat work surfaces to minimise nuisance level environmental disturbance
   • Store tools, equipment and materials not in use neatly and remove waste and used materials and place in disposal containers as instructed
   • Identify potential hazards, assess risks and implement control measures
   • Apply sustainability practices relative to workplace and activity
3. Maintain structures and workplace surroundings
   • Identify maintenance requirements of structures and workplace surroundings and clarify with supervisor
   • Maintain structures and workplace surroundings as instructed
   • Identify structural damage and deterioration in the workplace and inform supervisor

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:

follow safe work practices

participate in teams and contribute to team objectives

understand instructions

read labels, site plan measurements and work health and safety symbols

communicate effectively with team members and supervisor

tally work hours, calibrating tools and equipment, measuring volumes to apply cleaning agents, measuring quantities of materials and estimating areas

minimise noise, dust and water run-off to prevent nuisance-level environmental disturbance

use industry standard terminology.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

enterprise standards for presentation of buildings, structures and surroundings

the effect of outdoor climatic conditions (including rain, hail, extreme heat and wind, and very high ultraviolet radiation), which may prevent or impede maintenance activities, or influence the selection of tools, equipment and safety equipment to minimise the hazards presented

the relationship between specific maintenance activities and the external environment, and reasons for procedures that help to minimise the impact that these activities may have on the environment

workplace hazards and work health and safety symbols, signs and practices in the context of own work

sustainability practices in the context of own work.

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