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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 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) |
Timber conversion | is the process of producing boards by re-sawing green flitches or cants to optimise single boards maximising the amount of boards per flitch or cant |
Work order is to include: | instructions for the cutting and despatch of green timber boards from the work site and may include: type size width angle quantity grade 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 |
Material may include: | hardwood softwood native timber species imported timber species |
Green boards | are those which are still in the rough (not dressed) and have not been seasoned, having just been converted from green timber moisture content is yet to be controlled through air drying or kiln drying |
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 may include: | measuring equipment power operated, automatic feed controlled ripping saws where the cut is controlled relative to the board guides and fence saws with adjustable cant (sloping table) saws with one blade rip saws table saws bench saws and is to include: procedures for saw lock-out such as protecting operators and co-workers from accidental injury by isolating the machine from the power source |
Saw set-up is to include: | setting depth width and cant of cut measured from the fence in line with product order and allowing for kerf (width of saw cut) |
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 and operating to optimum performance |
Ordered sizes may include: | a range of sizes cut to widths usually increasing in 5mm increments |
Tolerances | are a set limit for cutting over or under the required width within a set margin of acceptance usually + or - 0. 5 mm or in line with order or organisational requirements |
Feed rate is to include: | rate of speed the material is passed through the machine affecting the sharpness of the cutting blades finish of the material production output |
Defects may include: | warp wane cupping shakes insect defects knots resin pockets |
Disposing of may include: | recycling material with defects, incorrect cuts and off-cuts re-using material with defects, incorrect cuts and off-cuts |
Records and reports may include: | product type size width cant inspection grading and labelling outcomes storage locations quality outcomes hazards incidents equipment malfunctions and may be: manual using a computer-based system or other appropriate organisational communication system |
Stacking may include: | preparing for transport categorising in common size, length, width and cant marking lots in line with work order and site requirements locating so as not to block access or passage |
Dealing with may include: | repair of damaged saws and blunt or damaged saw blades disposing of saws and saw blades that cannot be repaired |