Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare workstation
- Press work
- Work is collected or received and quality checked, and any follow-up action determined.
- Faults, spots and marks are identified and appropriate action taken.
- Appropriate attachments are selected and used.
- Pressing is sequenced.
- Work is positioned on pressing equipment according to product requirements.
- Heat, steam, vacuum, pressure and time are applied according to product requirements and fabric specifications.
- Work is pressed.
- Equipment and work handling are controlled for variations in work type and construction and pressing requirements.
- OHS practices are followed.
- Action is taken according to workplace practices to prevent accidents and to eliminate risks to personal safety.
- Despatch pressed work
- Pressed work is inspected and compared against workplace pressing standards.
- Results of inspection of work are recorded.
- Subsequent action to either reject or correct faulty work is reported andrecorded.
- Preventative action taken to avoid any recurrence of faulty work is recorded.
- Pressed work is either passed to next operation, hung or packed and directed to required despatch area, despatch storage or packing sections.