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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 for heat-setting process
   • Make appropriate checks to ensure that textile fabric or web is ready for heat-setting process
   • Prepare work area according to WHS practices and workplace procedures
   • Prepare and adjust heat-setting machine according to specifications required for work
   • Report and record problems according to workplace procedures
3. Prepare technical textile for heat setting
   • Conduct appropriate pre-heat-setting tests on technical textile, as required
   • Fix technical textile into position on heat setting machine or conveyor
   • Check job or batch requirements
4. Operate and monitor heat-setting machine
   • Set temperature to achieve quick and even heat over width of technical textile
   • Set duration of heating process according to job requirements
   • Set other controls, such as conveyor speed, moisture and fans, according to job and process requirements
   • Monitor technical textile and machine during heat-setting process to ensure quality, and safe and efficient operation
   • Identify machine or process faults and take required action
   • Remove technical textile from heat-setting machine and carry out dimensional and other tests, as required
   • Direct technical textile to next operation

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
Machines include one or more of the following:	stenters drying, curing and heating ovens steamers humidifiers similar machines, including associated conveyors
WHS practices	WHS practices must include hazard identification and control, risk assessment and implementation of risk reduction measures specific to the tasks described by this unit, and include one or more of the following: manual handling techniques SOPs PPE safe materials handling taking of rest breaks ergonomic arrangement of workplaces following marked walkways safe storage of equipment housekeeping reporting accidents and incidents other WHS practices relevant to the job and enterprise

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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 and other reference material

applying relevant standards

safely setting up and operating technical textile heat-setting machines and work area on at least three (3) occasions

preparing and adjusting heat-setting machine according to specifications required for work on at least three (3) occasions

monitoring technical textile and machine during heat-setting process to ensure safe and efficient operation on at least three (3) occasions

removing technical textile from heat-setting machine and carrying out dimensional and other tests as required

consistently achieving quality and production output requirements

identifying and responding to machine or process faults

following job specifications and orders

applying workplace procedures

maintaining 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

heat-setting principles, including potential for variation in outcomes caused by temperature, moisture and fibre or yarn stress

heat-setting machines:

stenters

drying

curing and heating ovens

steamers

humidifiers

similar machines, including associated conveyors

machine operations relevant to workplace procedures

process and machine faults

work health and safety (WHS) practices

quality practices

workplace procedures

recording and reporting practices.

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