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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) |
Breaking down logs | is the process of cutting a log into flitches, cants or slabs, taking into account the characteristics of the log, such as regrowth logs, and processing requirements and may include: assessment of diameter range curvature faults species |
Work order is to include: | instructions for the sawing logs and despatch of flitches or cants from the work site to down-stream processing and may include: treating species diameter length 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 |
Equipment may include: | circular saws bench saws overhead frame saws or band saws (single, twin, single edges and twin edges) mechanical feed conveyors standard three headed dog carriages flat top carriages with head rigs and is to include: procedures for machine lock-out, i.e. protecting operators and co-workers from accidental injury by isolating the machine from the power source |
Optimising includes: | planning the cutting of a log to achieve the most from it ensuring environmental requirements are central to this planning process |
Sawn recovery | is the volume of timber sawn from a resource compared to the volume of that resource is expressed as a percentage - sawn timber volume/initial log volume x 100 maximises the value of the resource |
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: saw has been set-up correctly blades are installed accurately machinery is operating to optimum performance |
Dogs | are the carriage devices which clamp logs during break down |
Feed rate is to include: | rate of speed the material is passed through the machine affecting the sharpness of the blades finish of the material production output |
Records and reports may include: | the sawing procedures product type size inspection grading and labelling outcomes storage locations quality outcomes hazards incidents equipment malfunctions and may be: manual using a computer-based system or another appropriate organisational communication system |
Disposing of may include: | recycling sub-standard material re-using sub-standard material |
Dealing with may include: | repairing blunt or damaged saws and saw blades disposing of saws and saw blades that cannot be repaired |