Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan and prepare.
- Work instructions and operational details are obtained using relevant information, confirmed and applied for planning and preparation purposes.
- Safety (OHS) requirements are followed in accordance with safety plans and policies.
- Signage and barricade requirements are identified and implemented.
- Tools and equipment selected to carry out tasks are consistent with job requirements, checked for serviceability and any faults are rectified or reported prior to commencement.
- Material quantity requirements are calculated in accordance with plans, specifications and quality requirements.
- Materials appropriate to the work application are identified, obtained, prepared, safely handled and located ready for use.
- Environmental requirements are identified for the project in accordance with environmental plans and statutory and regulatory authority requirements, and are applied.
- Use a range of methods for splitting stone.
- Alternative methods are identified for drilling and splitting stone.
- Stone is split and squared by drilling and using plugs and feathers.
- Holes are set out to line and spacings and drilled to depths as specified for type and size of stone.
- Guillotine principles are applied and used for splitting various thicknesses of slabbed stone as required by job or organisation.
- Stone is split using natural lines of cleavage.
- Clean up work.