Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish work requirements and prepare for work
- Work health and safety (WHS) requirements, legislative requirements and workplace practices are observed throughout the work
- Personal protective equipment is selected and used correctly
- Work orders are checked and confirmed
- Material is selected from stock and checked against work order
- Tools and equipment are selected and checked for safe operation
- Hardware is selected and checked against work order
- Lay out, mark and cut materials
- Correct side of materials and pattern direction are identified
- Allowances for hardware, joins and hems are calculated and recorded
- Material is laid out flat and square on a cutting table large enough to take full width of material and marked using chalk, markers or pencil
- Cutting equipment is checked for safe operation
- Material is cut following workplace practices
- Construct blind
- Headline and spline shaft is identified, selected and cut to manufacturer specifications
- Hardware is selected for headrail and assembled to manufacturer specifications
- Slats are finished according to workplace practices
- Finishing hardware is attached according to work instructions
- Child safety mechanisms required by legislation or code of practice are selected and attached
- Apply quality checks
- Complete work
- Completed work is cleaned, protected and stored
- Tools and equipment are cleaned, maintained and stored
- Faulty tools and equipment are reported to appropriate personnel
- Work area is cleaned and waste is disposed of in accordance with workplace practices and environmental legislation covering disposal of industrial waste
- Workplace documentation is completed