Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for pressing operation
- Review and check work order, workplace health and safety requirements, environmental protection practices and emergency procedures for pressing operation with appropriate personnel
- Identify and report hazards and use personal protective equipment according to workplace requirements and health and safety legislation to maintain safe work practices
- Select the type and quantity of chips, flakes or fibre to be pressed, from a storage location
- Conduct pre-start checks on equipment according to manufacturer recommendations and site requirements
- Plan pressing process according to site procedures
- Communicate plan with relevant personnel as required, to ensure safety and production requirements are met
- Form, press, test and transfer finished engineered wood panels
- Set and adjust press pressures, temperatures and product parameters according to production requirements
- Check operational condition and set-up of former to confirm mat condition
- Check forming equipment for defects and position to load press according to standard operating procedures
- Press engineered wood panels while monitoring and adjusting the panel position, feed rate, mat condition and press condition
- Plan size changes and line speeds to meet production schedules
- Regularly assess pressed engineered wood panels and thickness changes and make necessary changes to former, press set-up and blending requirements
- Test engineered wood panels samples to confirm adherence to industry standard, and reject defective panels
- Dispose of defective engineered wood panels according to environmental protection requirements
- Transfer finished engineered wood panels for further processing according to site requirements
- Shut down, clean equipment and record information
- Shut down equipment in coordination with designated stop time and other line operators according to site procedures
- Separate and remove engineered wood panel and forming equipment from press using unloading equipment
- Strip and clean blending equipment, press and handling equipment according to standard operating procedures
- Clear foreign material, dust and debris from machine area according to workplace requirements
- Record and report pressing process and equipment faults to appropriate personnel