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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 block and shape millinery by hand
   • Confirm blocking and shaping requirements to ensure correct design application
   • Assemble and prepare selected materials ready for preparation process
   • Select block to suit design
   • Adapt block, where necessary, to ensure correct application
3. Block millinery
   • Prepare fibre or material and process over steam vent ensuring safe processes are followed
   • Pre-block hood to pre-stretch the fibres, if required
   • Perform final blocking to shape the secondary components, including brim, collar line or to obtain particular indentation
   • Allow hood to dry on the block, either naturally or by artificial means
   • Add stiffening to the hat, where required, before being removed

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 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
Block machines and equipment include one or more of the following:	block steamer pins cord hot block iron hat stretcher cutting tools

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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

confirming blocking and shaping requirements to ensure correct design application

assembling and preparing selected materials ready for preparation process

selecting appropriate block and adapting, if required, to meet requirements

preparing fibre or material and processing over steam vent and ensuring safe processes are followed, on at least two (2) occasions

operating machines or equipment, including steam equipment, used within the enterprise, on at least two (2) occasions

pre-blocking hood to pre-stretching the fibres, if required

performing final blocking to shape the secondary components, including brim, collar line or to obtain particular indentation on at least two (2) occasions

allowing hood to dry on the block, either naturally or by artificial means

adding stiffening to the hat, where required.

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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)

industry and product processes and equipment

manual use of blocks

workplace procedures

recording and reporting practices.

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