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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify preparation requirements
   • Identify and follow work health and safety, legislative and organisational requirements
   • Read work documentation and identify job and material preparation requirements
   • Confirm details of the site conditions, including safety and security requirements, from reports or physical inspection
   • Identify delivery point, access and storage on site and determine methods for loading and/or hoisting floor coverings
   • Determine any special packaging requirements for transportation to site
   • Select and check tools, equipment and materials for suitability, serviceability and safety prior to use
2. Receive flooring materials
   • Receive and segregate flooring materials into products
   • Check received materials against delivery documentation for type, quantity and production batch
   • Inspect received materials for defects and damage and reject or segregate unacceptable items
   • Accurately complete receipt documentation in accordance with workplace procedures
3. Prepare and package flooring materials
   • Confirm types and quantities of materials required for the work plan
   • Prepare and accurately measure or estimate materials based on job requirements
   • Package materials and equipment for transport to site taking into account potential damage factors
4. Secure and protect load
   • Check distribution to ensure that it is even, meets regulatory loading and transporting requirements and is within safe working capacity
   • Check load to ensure that dangerous goods and hazardous substances are appropriately segregated in accordance with current dangerous goods codes
   • Secure load using the correct load restraint and protection equipment for different loads, carrying and storage conditions
   • Protect load in accordance with legal and workplace safety requirements
5. Load flooring materials on to the worksite
   • Identify roles and related responsibilities for the successful completion of the loading and lifting activity
   • Estimate time requirements to complete the loading and/or lifting of flooring materials based on scope of work
   • Select, access and use materials handling equipment appropriate to the task in accordance with regulatory and/or site requirements
   • Complete movement activities as an individual or working directly with others as required by the work tasks
6. Store flooring materials and accessories on site
   • Observe condition of flooring materials and accessory products on arrival on site, identify any damage and separate for further action
   • Store flooring materials and accessory products on site observing any requirements for protection from potential damage factors
   • Identify and satisfy product and site acclimatisation requirements
   • Stack materials appropriately for weight loading, size and crushability of flooring materials or accessory products
   • Locate required products to enable ready access when required on site
7. Complete housekeeping
   • Store and recycle unused materials in accordance with workplace procedures
   • Check, clean and store tools and equipment in accordance with workplace procedures
   • Clean work area and dispose of rubbish safely
   • Accurately complete required workplace documentation