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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Determine job requirements
   • Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs)
   • Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
   • Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
   • Identify job requirements from specifications, drawings, job sheets or work instructions
2. Prepare to press work
   • Set up work area according to workplace procedures
   • Clean and check pressing equipment
   • Perform routine minor maintenance
   • Collect or receive work, check quality and determine any follow-up action
   • Lay out work in correct proximity and sequence
   • Identify faults, spots and marks and take appropriate action
   • Select and use appropriate attachments
   • Sequence pressing
   • Position work on pressing equipment according to product requirement
   • Apply heat, steam, vacuum, pressure and time according to product requirements and fabric specifications
   • Control equipment and work handling for variations in work type and construction and pressing requirements
   • Position and shape the garment to contribute to the final appearance
3. Despatch pressed work
   • Inspect pressed work and compare against workplace pressing standards
   • Record results of inspection and report and record subsequent action to either reject or correct faulty work
   • Determine and record preventative action to avoid any recurrence of faulty work
   • Pass pressed work to next operation, or hang or pack it and direct to required despatch area, despatch storage or packing sections

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.
Workplace procedures include one or more of the following:	requirements prescribed by legislation, awards, agreements and conditions of employment SOPs work instructions personal protective equipment (PPE) oral, written and visual communication quality practices, including responsibility for maintenance of own work quality and contribution to quality improvement of team or section output housekeeping tasks related to environmental protection, waste disposal, pollution control and recycling WHS practices
Australian Standards include:	the relevant industry or Australian Standards that are current at the time this unit is being undertaken
Fabrics include one or more of the following:	woven cottons denim single knits tricot gabardine cotton drill calico double knit rugby knit poplin
Pressing equipment includes one or more of the following:	irons presses industrial steam irons suction boards sleeve board sleeve roll
Routine minor maintenance includes one or more of the following:	washing out or replacing cover and padding shaking out rubber mat brushing and air blowing wire mesh applying sole-cleaning compounds to hand irons
Report and record includes one or more of the following:	written records shown by the attachment of a ticket oral or written reports

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria, and include:

reading and following work instructions, standard operating procedures (SOPs), safe work practices

applying relevant standards

checking work against work specification or pressing instructions

preparing pressing equipment and work before commencing pressing operations

applying pressing techniques for positioning and shaping of the garment, for a range of different fabric types and at least two (2) work pieces according to workplace procedures and quality requirements

controlling equipment and handling work for variations in work type and construction and pressing requirement, including positioning and shaping the garment to contribute to the final appearance

inspecting pressed work and comparing against workplace pressing standards

recording results of inspection, reporting and recording subsequent action to either reject or correct faulty work

determining and recording preventative action to avoid any recurrence of faulty work

finalising pressing operation for storage, packing or despatch operations, according to workplace requirements.

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence must be provided that demonstrates knowledge of:

safe work practices and procedures and use of personal protective equipment (PPE)

relevant Australian Standards

pressing requirements and characteristics of typical fabrics and other materials used in garment assembly

sewing techniques, such as pleats, tucks, gathers, darts and hems, and how pressing impacts on the finish

quality standards and practices

workplace practices

recording and reporting practices.

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