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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Start up ancillary equipment
   • Check production requirements at start of shift and plan daily work activities in line with organisational safety and standard operating procedures.
   • Remove isolations and prepare ancillary equipment for startup.
   • Start up ancillary equipment and confirm operational settings to required specification
2. Monitor and control ancillary equipment
   • Monitor ancillary equipment to ensure operations are within parameters.
   • Identify, rectify or report routine variations from specification.
   • Complete routine preventative maintenance in line with maintenance schedules.
3. Shut down ancillary equipment
   • Use maintenance schedules or work area instructions to co-ordinate planned shutdown of ancillary equipment.
   • Follow organisational safety and standard operating procedures to initiate appropriate isolations and shut down equipment as planned.
   • Respond to unplanned shutdown immediately.
   • Initiate appropriate isolations, identify and locate cause of unplanned shutdown.
   • Assess effects of unplanned shutdown to determine impact on operations.
   • Rectify equipment and restart or report to relevant personnel for restart action.
4. Record and report equipment and process data
   • Interpret equipment and process data and enter into recording system.
   • Communicate problems or variations with equipment or process to relevant personnel.

Range Statement

Not Applicable

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Performance Evidence

A person demonstrating competency in this unit must satisfy all of the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, and must be able to provide evidence that they can:

operate ancillary equipment within a pulp and paper manufacturing facility, at least twice in line with required enterprise intervals, across different operational periods

across operational periods, start up ancillary equipment and monitor that equipment to ensure operations are within parameters

complete routine maintenance on ancillary equipment

co-ordinate one planned shutdown of ancillary equipment

complete accurate basic records for processes, equipment startup, shutdown and problems.

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Knowledge Evidence

A person competent in this unit must be able to demonstrate knowledge of:

system layout for ancillary equipment

purpose, features and operation of ancillary equipment, operating parameters and allowable variations

operation and application of electronic and other control systems

stages involved in starting up ancillary equipment with particular emphasis on pre-startup safety checks

methods used to monitor ancillary equipment operations against specified system parameters

types, causes and effects of, and required emergency and other responses to, unplanned ancillary equipment shutdowns including:

power outage

mechanical breakdown

blockages

jamming

air supply

control system failure

responses to unplanned or emergency shutdowns that are appropriate to the cause

methods used to test ancillary equipment and diagnose faults

organisational procedures:

standard operating procedures specific to operating ancillary equipment

workplace health and safety with particular emphasis on equipment lock out and use of personal protective equipment

communication reporting lines

recording and reporting processes, equipment startup, shutdown and problems.

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