Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify required materials and equipment.
- Identify work requirements from production plan
- Identify quantity and quality of product required and any special requirements, including welding specifications.
- Interpret plans, patterns, designs or product specifications.
- Recognise hazards and steps required to ensure safety.
- Plan welding operations for a sequence or continuous process to ensure work follows a logical procedure.
- Examine process requirements to identify suitability of plastic materials for specified welding operations.
- Set up welding equipment and materials for sequence or continuous operation.
- Prepare plastic materials or components for welding in a sequence or continuous operation.
- Weld to specification.
- Anticipate and solve problems.
- Recognise a problem or a potential problem.
- Determine problems needing priority action.
- Refer problems outside area of responsibility to appropriate person, with possible causes.
- Seek information and assistance as required to solve problems.
- Solve problems within area of responsibility.
- Follow through items initiated until final resolution has occurred.