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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Operate spray equipment
   • Operate spray equipment in accordance with workplace requirements and manufacturer's specifications.
   • Maintain and clean spray equipment in accordance with workplace requirements and manufacturer's specifications, where required.
2. Spray skins and prepare them for sweating
   • Lay skins out for chemical treatment in accordance with workplace requirements.
   • Apply acid solutions to skins in accordance with workplace requirements.
   • Spread acid solution evenly over pelt (including points) in accordance with workplace requirements.
   • Fold skins in accordance with workplace requirements.
   • Keep skins in their mob batches for identification purposes.
   • Identify workplace health and safety hazards and take preventative measures.
   • Identify environmental hazards and take preventative measures.

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must apply chemicals to skins in a fellmongering process.

The candidate must:

spray skins with chemicals in accordance with workplace health and safety requirements and workplace and customer specifications

operate spraying equipment to workplace and workplace health and safety requirements

cite and locate the safety data sheets for the chemicals used and explain how they relate to the use and disposal of the chemicals

apply relevant regulatory requirements.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:

environmental risks and controls related to the use of chemicals

protective equipment to be used for each chemical and relevant emergency procedures

purpose of chemically treating skins in fellmongering

relationship between concentration of chemicals and different types of skins

relevant regulatory requirements.

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