Elements and Performance Criteria
- Select and use hand tools
- Correct tools are chosen to complete workplace tasks and to ensure efficient and safeworking conditions
- Appropriate personal safety protection is used to minimise personal injury risk
- Maintain hand tools
- Equipment is cleaned and maintained in accordance with manufacturer’s specifications and/or local instructions to ensure correct functionality of equipment
- Unserviceable tools are repaired, replaced or reported to relevant personnel to ensure correct functionality
- Secure and store hand tools
- Tools are transported in a safe, secure, efficient manner to minimise risk of injury to personnel and damage to equipment
- Tools are stored and secured according to manufacturer’s or workplace procedures to prevent damage to, and losses of, equipment