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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) |
Work order is to include: | instructions for the mechanical stress-grading of material and may include: type width length thickness quantity instructions for the environmental monitoring of work and procedures environmental care requirements relevant to the work |
Appropriate personnel may include: | supervisors suppliers clients colleagues managers |
Timber may include: | native timber species imported timber species dressed timber in-the-rough timber preservative treated timber |
Stress-grading includes: | mechanical methods of testing board strength and durability marking and classifying timber to a grade of quality |
Storage locations may include: | storage racks storage bays bins stacks pallet boxes modularised storage components temporary stacking bays (stand, frame or ground) and may be divided into: standard product classification product designation size dimension stack number weight grade shelf life stock rotation position |
Equipment is to include: | procedures for equipment lock-out, such as protecting operators and co-workers from accidental injury by isolating the machine from the power source and may include: mechanical stress-graders or high speed mechanical graders spray guns branding rolls |
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 |
Pre-startup checks | are conducted to ensure: equipment has been set up correctly systems are performing accurately equipment is operating to optimum performance |
Spray guns and branding rolls | are used to mark timber automatically with grade-related dyes |
Calibration | is the setting of the machine to the desired stress grade level using verification boards in line with industry standards |
Verification boards | are used to ensure the calibration is correct have been previously assessed as being accurate |
Grade thresholds | are the variations between one grade level and another determining if a board is considered in the higher or lower grade |
Independent testing | is the process of randomly selecting stress graded boards for independent testing, ensuring that enterprise calibrations and grade thresholds are accurate and that grades follow industry standards |
Records and reports may include: | stress-grading requirements product type size inspection information grading and marking outcomes storage locations quality outcomes hazards incidents equipment malfunctions and may be: manual a computer-based system other appropriate organisational communication system |
Photo-electric cells and reflectors | are sensory devices that calculate stress levels of boards |