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The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. |
OHS requirements: | are to be in line with applicable Commonwealth, State or Territory legislation and regulations, and organisational safety policies and procedures, and may include:personal protective equipment and clothingsafety equipmentfirst aid equipmentfire fighting equipmenthazard and risk controlfatigue managementelimination of hazardous materials and substancessafe forest practices including required actions relating to forest firemanual handling including shifting, lifting and carryingmachine isolation and guarding |
Environmental requirements may include: | legislationorganisational policies and proceduresworkplace practices |
Legislative requirements: | are to be in line with applicable Commonwealth, State or Territory legislation, regulations, certification requirements and codes of practice and may include:award and enterprise agreementsindustrial relationsAustralian Standardsconfidentiality and privacyOHSthe environmentequal opportunityanti-discriminationrelevant industry codes of practiceduty of care |
Organisational requirements may include: | legal organisational and site guidelinespolicies and procedures relating to own role and responsibilityquality assuranceprocedural manualsquality and continuous improvement processes and standardsOHS, emergency and evacuation proceduresethical standardsrecording and reporting requirementsequipment use and maintenance and storage requirementsenvironmental management requirements (waste minimisation and disposal, recycling and re-use guidelines) |
Work order is to include: | instructions for the screening of chips and the chip size and may include:feed rate quantityinstructions for the environmental monitoring of work and proceduresenvironmental care requirements relevant to the work |
Appropriate personnel may include: | supervisorssuppliersclientscolleaguesmanagers |
Wood chips | are the output product of converting wood into chip material which is then used to produce other products |
Screening | is the process of sorting wood chips into categories of species, size, moisture content and contamination issues associated with selected wood such as logs, billets, off-cuts, waste timber, down grade timber, residue, chips or reject boards |
Equipment may include: | mechanicalautomateddigitised computer assisted screening systems mechanised feed systemsand is to include:procedures for equipment lock-out, ie protecting operators and co-workers from accidental injury by isolating the machine from the power source |
Communication may include: | verbal and non-verbal languageconstructive feedbackactive listeningquestioning to clarify and confirm understandinguse of positive, confident and cooperative languageuse of language and concepts appropriate to individual social and cultural differencescontrol of tone of voicebody language |
Pre start-up checks | are conducted to ensure:equipment has been set-up correctlysystems are performing accurately equipment is operating to optimum performance |
Feed systems may include: | conveyors, chutes or track systems moving processed wood chips from the chipping machines to the screening system |
Removal may include: | recycling oversized materialre-using oversized material |
Disposing of may include: | recycling wood chips that do not conform to quality specifications and organisational requirementsre-using wood chips that do not conform to quality specifications and organisational requirements |
Contamination may include: | barkcharcoalrock and metalprocess of moving wood chips to the screening system and from the screening system to the transfer process |
Records and reports may include: | product typesizeinspectiongrading and labelling outcomesstorage locationsquality outcomeshazardsincidentsequipment malfunctionsand may be:manualusing a computer-based system or other appropriate organisational communication system |