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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) |
Flitch | is a large piece of sawn log section cut longitudinally, sawn on at least two surfaces at ninety degrees and intended for further cutting |
Cant | is a thick piece of timber with two or more surfaces cut longitudinally on the angle (obliquely) sawn from a log section and intended for further sawing |
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 size 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 such as 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 |
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 |
Log sections | are large sections and lengths of timber available for further processing as a result of breaking down logs |
Dogs | are the carriage devices which support 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 |
Defects may include: | defects arising from a change in moisture content warp wane curvature shakes insect defects knots and resin pockets sweep taper end splits shape |
Disposing of may include: | recycling timber sections with defects and sawn edges re-using timber sections with defects and sawn edges |
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 other appropriate organisational communication system |
Dealing with may include: | repair of damaged saws and blunt or damaged saw blades disposing of saws and saw blades that cannot be repaired |