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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 isolating 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 drying of hardwood and may include: species colour 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 |
Hardwood | usually comes from trees with leaf foliage and has large tube like vessels or pores consisting of short stubby cells varying in size and may include: native timber species imported timber species dressed timber in-the-rough timber preservative treated timber |
Drying | is the process of: placing hardwood in a heat controlled kiln to dry high levels of moisture from timber causing moisture loss from cells followed by humidity generation to recondition timber to its former shape and desired EMC finally kiln drying to required moisture content |
Conversion process is to include: | sawing of logs into flitches conversion of flitches into green boards |
Equipment may include: | low temperature kilns up to 60 to 70 degrees Celsius with a heat source which may be solar, electricity or gas kilns powered by burning wood waste up to temperatures of 90 degrees Celsius vacuum dryers kilns powered by steam producing boilers 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 |
Visually assessed | is the assessment of materials to determine finish quality and faults and may include: stability spacing of strips support to minimise warping |
Moisture content | is the amount of moisture maintained in timber or timber products after drying to avoid cracking and deforming and may include: testing for capacitance resistance oven-dry conditions |
Pre start-up checks | are conducted to ensure: equipment has been set-up correctly systems are performing accurately equipment is operating to optimum performance |
Emergency shut down | is the immediate shutting off of the equipment to prevent an accident or prevent damage to the machine or product |
Kiln | refer to equipment |
Baffles and blankets | assist in the drying process by controlling air flow |
Drying schedule | is the drying times based on moisture content |
Drying end point | is the predicted time when the drying process will be completed and the desired moisture content achieved |
Equilibrium moisture content (EMC) | is the moisture level to be achieved by drying which will be sustainable in the environment after processing thereby retaining its shape and strength without excessive movement |
Moisture probes | are probes pierced into random boards which provide moisture readings on the kiln gauges to assist in modifying the drying schedule |
On-site movement of material may include: | the use of: conveyor belt systems track systems lifting equipment lifting equipment such as: fork lifts slings trolley jacks gantry cranes loaders cross transfer trucks assistance with lifting such as: the involvement of two or more personnel to lift materials manually or to guide the movement of mechanical equipment |
Storage 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 |
Disposing of may include: | recycling sub-standard material re-using sub-standard material |
Records and reports may include: | drying requirements 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 other appropriate organisational communication system |