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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Test run floor electrics
   • Set floor electrics according to performance or production requirements
   • Integrate the operation of floor electrics into the technical and creative run-through and advise relevant personnel of issues requiring attention
   • Plot, record, rehearse and execute cues on direction from relevant personnel
   • Set back-up systems for use in the event of equipment malfunction and test to ensure they are in working order
   • Implement necessary changes to cueing and modify cue sheets as required
2. Prepare to operate floor electrics
   • Identify, implement and document changes to floor electrics operation as required
   • Check working order of communication equipment and back-up system and seek assistance if required
   • Confirm supplies of consumables are adequate for performances or productions
   • Place elements of floor electrics in stand-by position for the start of performances or productions according to safety and production requirements and procedures
   • Identify equipment requiring warm-up and turn on at the appropriate time
   • Check elements of floor electrics to ensure they are operating to specifications
   • Identify problems or faults promptly, take safe and appropriate action to rectify or report to relevant personnel
   • Isolate smoke detectors and check changes to air-conditioning as required
   • Check cables are run according to work health and safety (WHS) requirements, and seek assistance if required
3. Operate floor electrics
   • Execute floor electrics changes on cue, in line with safety procedures and according to running sheets, directions and requirements of the performance or production, and/or venue
   • Check cables to ensure correct setting
   • Modify floor electrics cues if required, to cater for unexpected contingencies, and inform relevant personnel
   • Identify problems or faults promptly, and take safe and appropriate action to rectify or report to relevant personnel
   • Use back-up systems correctly when required
4. Shut down and disassemble equipment
   • Turn off power to floor electrics elements or set to standby as required
   • Reset smoke detectors and air-conditioning as required
   • Prepare and position elements of floor electrics ready for use as required, or return equipment to standby
   • Note changes to cue sheets and update and file other documentation as required and according to enterprise procedures

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

set, operate and power off floor electrics and associated equipment safely and effectively according to production documentation, performance requirements, enterprise instructions and safety procedures

collaborate with production team, designers and performers during process, responding to the artistic and technical elements of a production, including cues, directions and performance requirements, in a timely and efficient manner

demonstrate different technical techniques in responding quickly and effectively to unexpected contingencies during performance

set, check functionality, and use back-up systems in conjunction with lighting control when required

identify and rectify problems or faults with elements of floor electrics during pre-production and production according to enterprise procedures and with minimum disruption to work flows, and inform relevant personnel of ongoing or complex problems as required

produce and adjust documentation throughout process according to enterprise procedures and using appropriate lighting and floor electrics terminology.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:

describe the roles and responsibilities of lighting designers and technicians, particularly floor electrics operators, in the creative arts industry

describe the key features and operations of the main types of floor electrics equipment and describe their uses in different production contexts

describe the key features of different elements of floor electrics

explain the relationship between floor electrics and other lighting and staging effects

discuss the impact of technology used in floor electrics on production operations

broadly outline the artistic and technical elements of productions

identify typical problems that may arise in the context of setting and operating floor electrics and briefly describe solutions

explain duty of care for the safety of colleagues and the general public while performing floor electrics work, especially when on location

discuss work health and safety procedures that apply to testing, installing and operating floor electrics.

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