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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 hand last shoe
   • Receive and check work bundle against ticket information, assess quality of component parts and take any follow-up action according to workplace procedures
   • Set up workbench and seating to achieve operator comfort and minimise fatigue
   • Lay out work pieces in correct sequence and check tools
   • Check last or foot form before attaching insole and check upper for sizes
3. Hand last shoe
   • Attach insole to last by hand, positioning it to shape of last and to match size and pairs
   • Position toes and upper
   • Position upper precisely and manipulate through lasting process, check for correct operations and adjust, as required, to achieve quality requirements and to reflect construction technique
   • Make adjustments as required to achieve placement
   • Attach shanks and stiffeners and apply staples, as required
4. String last, as required
   • Punch holes in shoe bottom by hand or by machine, as required
   • Place upper on last and secure upper in place by tacks
   • Stitch opposite holes and pull tight by hand or machine using waxed string and remove tacks
5. Check and despatch completed work
   • Assess quality and bundle, stack, store or despatch completed work according to workplace procedures
   • Identify and record production faults and take appropriate action
   • Complete records

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 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
Hand last includes one or more of the following:	techniques for specific requirements of construction technique, including: cement moulded welt Veldtschoen Moccasin Californian slip lasting string lasting

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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 ticket information and workplace procedures

preparing workstation and work before commencing operations

applying hand last processes on at least five (5) occasions appropriate to a range of construction techniques

handling and positioning materials with dexterity and accuracy to match size and pairs

complying with quality specifications

applying workplace procedures

maintaining accurate records.

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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

characteristics of typical leathers and how to minimise stretch and how to make allowances for variations

range of construction techniques

hand last process

quality standards and practices

workplace practices

recording and reporting practices.

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