Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare to stack timber
- Appropriate work/occupational health and safety (WHS/OHS), environmental and organisational policies and procedures relevant to building and maintaining timber stacks are identified and followed
- Work order is reviewed to identify potential timber stack site
- Risk assessment is undertaken and measures adopted in line with site requirements to address hazards and faults and to ensure safety of self, others and proposed timber stack, taking avoidable loss into account
- Traffic management plan is followed
- Required safety equipment is obtained and used in line with site requirements
- Build timber stack
- Timber is checked to ensure it meets labelled or expected content and non-compliant material is reported to supervisor, in line with site and safety requirements
- Appropriate bearers are chosen to create required space for powered mobile plant to lift the stack
- Stack is created, bearers are checked, and timber is restrained in line with site requirements
- Maximum height of stack is managed to suit environment and weather conditions, in line with industry safety standards and site requirements
- Problems and faults are identified and reported to supervisor in line with site procedures
- Maintain timber stack
- Waste material is stored, reused, recycled or disposed of in line with site procedures and environmental requirements