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The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. |
OHS requirements: | are to be in line with applicable commonwealth, state or territory legislation and regulations, and organisational safety policies and procedures, and may include: personal protective equipment and clothing safety equipment first aid equipment fire fighting equipment hazard and risk control fatigue management elimination of hazardous materials and substances safe forest practices, including required actions relating to forest fire manual handling including shifting, lifting and carrying |
Environmental requirements may include: | legislation organisational policies and procedures workplace practices |
Legislative requirements: | are to be in line with applicable commonwealth, state or territory legislation, regulations, certification requirements and codes of practice and may include: award and enterprise agreements industrial relations Australian Standards confidentiality and privacy OHS the environment equal opportunity anti-discrimination relevant industry codes of practice duty of care |
Organisational requirements may include: | legal organisational and site guidelines policies and procedures relating to own role and responsibility quality assurance procedural manuals quality and continuous improvement processes and standards OHS, emergency and evacuation procedures ethical standards recording and reporting requirements equipment use, maintenance and storage requirements environmental management requirements (waste minimisation and disposal, recycling and re-use guidelines) |
Environmental protection measures may include: | ground growth canopy general forest lean wind speed and direction fallen trees density of trees ground slope soil and water protection ground hazards obstacles |
Work order is to include: | details of material to be evaluated, graded and marked and may also include: instructions for the environmental monitoring of work and procedures environmental care requirements relevant to the work |
Appropriate personnel may include: | supervisors clients colleagues managers |
Timber products may include: | poles piles veneer graded sawlogs non-graded sawlogs pulp |
Characteristics may include: | species pipe open pipe discontinuous and irregular shaped pipes loose gum veins gum pockets and rings termites and grubs hearts out of centre brown stain rot punk cork or pith black borer black heart straight shakes shakes in spiral grain overgrowth and doze pockets small log pipe allowance length non-allowable length defects |
Safe working conditions will include: | control of potential and existing risks and hazards ensuring log stability during: evaluation grading marking |
Communication may include: | verbal and non-verbal language constructive feedback active listening questioning to clarify and confirm understanding use of positive, confident and cooperative language use of language and concepts appropriate to individual social and cultural differences control of tone of voice |
Segregating | is the process of locating and removing designated logs from a stockpile or landing to a specified location |
Sorting | is the process of allocating segregated logs into batches, based on: species sizes characteristics |
Measurement may include: | using callipers using other standard measuring tools |
Records and reports may include: | segregating and sorting operations difficulties or issues faced environmental issues recommendations for future work results costs hazards incidents equipment malfunctions and may be: manual computer-based system other appropriate organisational communication system |