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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 use information resources
   • Identify information needs and confirm with appropriate personnel
   • Identify and locate workplace information resources to assist in textile production operations
   • Seek advice from appropriate personnel, where required, to locate and obtain information
   • Check that information resources appropriate to work requirements and/or application are current and authentic
3. Access textile production information
   • Locate relevant information using simple search techniques
   • Interpret symbols, codes, legends, abbreviations and textile production terminology correctly
   • Access and interpret information and apply it appropriately
   • Seek and obtain clarification or further explanation of information where required
   • Note and summarise information, if necessary, for subsequent use
4. Use and store information resources
   • Use information resources to assist in textile production operations
   • Where applicable, undertake work according to acquired information
   • Store information resources appropriately to ensure security, prevention of damage, and retrieval
   • Maintain currency of documentation

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
Australian Standards include:	the relevant industry or Australian Standards that are current at the time this unit is being undertaken
Information resources include one or more of the following:	SOPs safety procedures job lists manufacturer manuals specifications textile production patterns and machine settings international and Australian Standards trade journals quality system documentation customer requirements workplace and site procedures and manuals industry manuals codes of practice awards legislation plans and diagrams log books hard copy or electronic data key personnel, supervisors, trainers and colleagues
Simple search techniques include one or more of the following:	using index, table of contents, numbering and classification systems, computer database search or look-up, questioning and cross-referencing basic techniques to identify relevant information, including skimming and scanning, and identifying key words and ideas

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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

locating relevant standards

locating and accessing sources of information to extend own skills and knowledge of textile production operations on at least two (2) occasions

using a range of at least five (5) information resources

checking currency and authenticity of information resources

applying basic scanning techniques to locate required information

seeking advice from appropriate personnel, where required, to locate, obtain or clarify information

interpreting textile production terminology, symbols, abbreviations, codes and information relevant to work requirements

applying information to own work

storing information resources appropriately for retrieval and to ensure security, and prevention of damage

maintaining currency of documentation.

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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

information resources available in the workplace

range of formats in which information is presented

organisation of information by classification and cataloguing systems

own work role and activities

operating procedures for production machines or processes

expertise of key personnel

location of information resources

quality standards and practices

workplace procedures

recording and reporting practices.

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