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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for work
   • Receive and give shift handover
   • Identify work requirements
   • Identify and control hazards
   • Coordinate with appropriate personnel
   • Check for recent work undertaken on handling and storage facility
   • Note any outstanding/incomplete work
   • Check operational status of handling and storage facility
2. Prepare storage facilities
   • Identify contents of each storage unit/area in the facility
   • Recognise storage types for each product being stored
   • Identify leakage and other problems with storage facility
   • Confirm safety systems are operational, where required
   • Carry out general housekeeping of facility to remove foreign matter or hazards
   • Record and/or communicate identified maintenance requirements
3. Operate conveyor/solids transport systems
   • Describe the type of handling and storage facility, the component plant items and their duties
   • Identify the storage required to supply or store particulates
   • Set up routing of transport systems to meet requirements
   • Complete routine checks, logs and paperwork taking appropriate action on unexpected readings
   • Adjust handling facility and its component plant items as appropriate to their type and duty to maximise performance
   • Convey correct material from and to correct location as required
4. Diagnose and take action on abnormal situations in accordance with procedures
   • Monitor handling and storage facility and its component plant items frequently and critically throughout shift using measured/indicated data and senses
   • Describe impacts of any changes upstream and downstream
   • Recognise actual and developing situations which may require action
   • Apply operational knowledge to resolve problems
   • Take other actions on abnormal situations which cannot be resolved during the shift to ensure safety and the resolution of the situation
   • Follow through items initiated until final resolution has occurred
5. Manage particulates storage facility
   • Monitor quality and quantity of stored solids
   • Identify and deal with product contamination
   • Transfer stock into, out of or between storage units as required
   • Supply customers with correct quality and quantity in a timely manner
   • Make effective use of available storage capacity
   • Monitor storage facility for actual or potential problems likely to affect the efficient operation of the facility
6. Isolate and de-isolate handling and storage facility/equipment
   • Complete any required pre-start checks
   • Start up/shut down handling and storage facility according to the handling and storage facility type and duty in liaison with other personnel
   • Start up/shut down/changeover component plant items within unit according to their type and duty in liaison with other personnel
   • Isolate entire handling and storage facility and/or any component plant item
   • Make safe for required work
   • Check handling and storage facility/plant item is ready to be returned to service
   • De-isolate and prepare handling and storage facility/plant item for return to service

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.
Regulatory framework	The latest version of all legislation, regulations, industry codes of practice and Australian/international standards, or the version specified by the local regulatory authority, must be used, and include one or more of the following: legislative requirements, including work health and safety (WHS) industry codes of practice and guidelines environmental regulations and guidelines Australian and other standards licence and certification requirements All operations to which this unit applies are subject to stringent health, safety and environment (HSE) requirements, which may be imposed through state/territory or federal legislation, and these must not be compromised at any time. Where there is an apparent conflict between performance criteria and HSE requirements, the HSE requirements take precedence.
Hazards	Hazards include one or more of the following: solids falling from conveyors electricity structural hazards structural collapse equipment failures industrial (machinery, equipment and product) equipment or product mass noise, rotational equipment or vibration plant services (steam, condensate and cooling water) working at heights, in restricted or confined spaces, or in environments subjected to heat, dusts or vapours flammability and explosivity hazardous products and materials unauthorised personnel sharp edges, protrusions or obstructions slippery surfaces, spills or leaks extreme weather other hazards that might arise
Situations requiring action	Situations requiring action include one or more of the following: damage to particulates damage to conveyors/storage contamination of stored stock rat holing and bridging in silos/hoppers routing issues, and so on storage vessel/area capacities
Non-routine problems	Non-routine problems are unexpected problems, or variations of previous problems and must be resolved by applying operational knowledge to develop new solutions, either individually or in collaboration with relevant experts, to: determine problems needing action determine possible fault causes develop solutions to problems which do not have a known solution follow through items initiated until final resolution has occurred report problems outside area of responsibility to designated person Operational knowledge includes one or more of the following: procedures training technical information, such as journals and engineering specifications remembered experience relevant knowledge obtained from appropriate people
Start up/shut down	Start up/shut down includes the following: start up and shut down to/from normal operating conditions start up and shut down to/from isolated, cold or empty start up and shut down to/from other conditions/situations experienced on the plant
Procedures	All operations must be performed in accordance with relevant procedures. Procedures are written, verbal, visual, computer-based or in some other form, include one or more of the following: emergency procedures work instructions standard operating procedures (SOPs) safe work method statements (SWMS) formulas/recipes batch sheets temporary instructions any similar instructions provided for the smooth running of the plant
Equipment	Equipments includes, as appropriate to the site, one or more of the following: mechanical conveyors/feeders (including belt, vibrating, screw and flight; and feeders, such as screw, star, slide, volumetric and weight) pneumatic conveyors (including aspects such as dense phase, disperse phase, pressure and vacuum) storage facilities (e.g. silos, hoppers, stock piles and including purging hoppers) ancillary equipment, such as drive motors, hydraulics, coolers, fans/blowers, safety equipment and instrumentation
Operate	Operate is to monitor, adjust/make change to the production unit and/or its component items to meet specifications, by one or both of the following: manually in the plant using local controller in the plant This competency does not require the operation of a central control panel.

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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 includes the ability to:

perform pre-start checks, start-up/shutdown and cleaning procedures, and isolations and de-isolations

set up routing of transport systems

operate and monitor equipment to safely move stock to and retrieve from the appropriate areas

identify hazards and risks and apply risk control procedures

identify early warning signs of equipment/stock needing attention or with potential problems and take action

resolve non-routine problems

manage storage area taking into account quality and quantity of stock, effective use of storage capacity and customer needs

identify hazards and risks and apply risk control procedures.

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence must be provided that demonstrates knowledge of:

all items on a schematic of the system and functions of each

principles of operation of plant/equipment

interactions between plant items/processes

systems’ operating parameters and integrity limits, product specifications and tolerances

impact of external factors (e.g. variations in weather)

function and troubleshooting of major components and their problems and resolution

particulate properties

logistics

forward demand

material storage requirements

compatibility and contamination issues

hierarchy of control

hazards that may arise in the job/work environment, and:

their possible causes

potential consequences

appropriate risk controls.

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