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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 manual handling including shifting, lifting and carrying machine isolation and guarding |
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 and 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 sorting of timber and may include: type width length thickness quantity 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 suppliers clients colleagues managers |
Boards may include: | native timber species imported timber species dressed timber in-the-rough timber stress and non-stress graded timber preservative treated timber |
Sorting may include: | classifying timber into lots consisting of the same size and grade dependent on: length width thickness quality of board or sorting for other production lines or waste |
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: | mechanical sorting machines and may include: drop sorters waterfalls unscramblers tray sorters and 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 |
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 body language |
Pre start-up checks | are conducted to ensure: equipment has been set-up correctly systems are performing accurately equipment is operating to optimum performance |
Grading | is the process of: visually evaluating material characteristics and defects for classification into varying strength and appearance grades inspecting timber to classify quality of individual boards |
Size discrimination | is the settings on the mechanical sorting machine which identify and classify the size of boards, determining their allocation to a size category |
Program | is the computer based program which determines sorting of varying sized boards to their allocated storage area |
Visual inspection is to include: | the assessment of timber to determine: finish quality faults |
Disposing of may include: | recycling rejected boards re-using rejected boards |
Records and reports may include: | automatic sorting requirements product type size inspection grading and marking outcomes storage locations quality outcomes hazards incidents equipment malfunctions and may be: manual using a computer-based system or other appropriate organisational communication system |
Photo electric cells and reflectors | are sensory devices which calculate size and tell the computer where to direct the board |