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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. Confirm custom-made footwear requirements
   • Review and confirm client requirements and design specifications
   • Determine materials required for production, confirm availability and order special or one-off materials from appropriate suppliers
   • Review pattern to ensure compliance with design requirements
   • Clarify design features with patternmaker, if required, and identify technical aspects of production
3. Prepare shoe last
   • Construct an original last from selected materials to produce a last with the desired shape and dimensions
   • Make inside build-ups (additions), form to the last and shape to comply with design specifications
   • Trial fit build-up components to review fit and function, modify if required, and attach
   • Check the last and any build-up components, and make adjustments and refinements, if necessary, in line with design requirements and established production standards
   • Check shoe last for construction faults and compliance with design specifications
4. Prepare and make components
   • Prepare components according to workplace procedures
   • Correct size cut pieces, mark, count and stamp according to work ticket and to workplace specifications
   • Prepare components using appropriate method and equipment and according to workplace requirements
5. Cut or click leather
   • Cut parts manually or by machine to enterprise quality standards in relation to material flaws and individual pairs selected
   • Click pairs and cut manually or by machine to achieve best yield according to appropriate allowance
   • Check work against pattern and design requirements
6. Prepare and make the upper
   • Prepare upper according to workplace procedures
   • Process upper manually or by machine
   • Machine seams and trim threads to achieve specified results
   • Check upper against pattern and design requirements
7. Conduct final quality check for operations
   • Check final product meets workplace quality requirements
   • Deal with production faults in accordance with workplace procedures
   • Bundle uppers and component parts, stack, store or despatch in accordance with workplace procedures
   • Document process and faults

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
Last includesone or more of the following:	slip on court boot sandal inner shoes
Tools and equipment includeone or more of the following:	knives and cutting tools stamps sewing machines threads needles hand tools machine tools computers mechanical duplicators

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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

clarifying design requirements and cutting leather and other materials

Operating appropriate tools and equipment used in the production of custom made shoes

constructing an original last from selected materials to produce a last with the desired shape and dimensions

shaping and modifying lasts to meet specifications

checking the last and any build-up components, and making adjustments and refinements, if necessary, in line with design requirements

preparing components using appropriate method and equipment

cutting parts manually or by machine to enterprise quality standards

preparing and sewing the upper manually or by machine

dealing with production faults in accordance with workplace procedures

checking final product meets workplace quality requirements

maintaining accurate records of faults, products and processes

applying all the relevant work health and safety (WHS) practices when working in the leather goods production industry.

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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

anatomy of foot and ankle

characteristics of last:

slip on

court

boot

sandal

inner shoes

last-making methods and materials

shoe construction methods

design requirements:

colours

quantities

quality requirements

size

componentry

measurements

style

characteristics of typical leathers, fabrics and other materials used in shoe production

operating procedures for cutting and machining leather

tools and equipment:

knives and cutting tools

stamps

sewing machines

threads

needles

hand tools

machine tools

computers

mechanical duplicators

quality standards and leather handling procedures

material flaws of leather, including veins, growth marks, tick and scars

WHS and environmental aspects of relevant workplace activities

workplace procedures

processes for communicating with clients and other personnel

WHS practices, including hazard identification and control measures

practices for recording and reporting outcomes.

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