Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify equipment controls and procedures.
- Identify work requirements from workplace approved operating procedures.
- Check operating procedures and controls to identify approved adjustments and operating parameters.
- Establish actions to be used in the event of faulty production from operating procedures.
- Identify procedures for obtaining materials for the process.
- Identify hazards and environmental issue that might surround the operation.
- Get ready for work/job.
- Assemble ancillary tools and equipment.
- Identify inspection procedures.
- Identify any finishing activities.
- Plan to avoid any hazards connected with materials and process by observation of the equipment, workplace reference materials, including materials safety data sheets and equipment instructions.
- Take appropriate measures to minimise risks from the identified hazards.
- Establish the location and function of equipment emergency stops and ensure guards are in place.
- Identify and note requirements for checking:
- - materials inputs and outputs
- - ancillary supplies and equipment
- - product quality requirements for the relevant process stage(s).
- Maintain operations.
- Check process operations, noting product quality, production outputs and waste, in accordance with workplace practices.
- Collect product outputs, check for conformity, make adjustments to the equipment (where appropriate) and store product.
- Collect material which is able to be reprocessed and reused, and deal with waste and scrap in accordance with workplace procedures (where applicable).
- Check readouts against standard statistical process information and enter production data into the control system.
- Clean up equipment and work area and manage waste in accordance with workplace procedures.
- Identify product quality requirements.