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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) |
Saws may include: | circular saws hot saws cold saws |
Work order is to include: | instructions for the sharpening of tipped circular saw blades in designated equipment and may 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 |
Tipped circular saw blades may include: | tipped circular saw blades used for cutting timber and tips may include: tungsten carbide satellite other alloyed materials such as high speed steel |
Sharpening is to include: | face gullet pitch profile angle depth of cut speed the blade passes over the grinding wheel to obtain a sharp edge |
Equipment may include: | manually or automatically adjustable grinding machines abrasive wheels measuring tools equipment and is to include: procedures for equipment lock-out, i.e. 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 |
Cutting performance may include: | length of production time achieved by the blade whether the blade performed with site tolerances of allowable deviation whether the surface finish was in line with site quality requirements |
Teeth are to include: | sharpness of each tooth damage to teeth pitch number of teeth per metre |
Straightness | is assessment of the entire blade to ensure it has not bent out of shape or warped in any way |
Dressing | is the process of cleaning or shaving the top surface of the grinding wheel to remove the build up of old sharpening metal and coolant |
Geometry | is the pitch and angle that a blade is sharpened at, allowing for the material they will be cutting |
Profile | is the shape of the teeth in line with the timber being cut usual direction of cutting, crosscut across the grain and ripping with the grain |
Pre start-up checks | are conducted to ensure: machine has been set-up correctly systems are performing accurately machinery is operating to optimum performance |
Coolant | is used in conjunction with grinding operations to cool the metal blade as it generates heat from the sharpening process to prevent burning |
Speeds and feeds | is the speed the grinding wheel rotates at, too fast and it may burn the metal, too slow and it may produce a rough finish or grab the blade similarly, the power feed controls movement of the blade to the desired rate |
Face is to include: | front edge of each tooth cutting part of the tooth |
Gullet | is the bottom hollowed section between each tooth |
Pitch | is the distance between the tips of the teeth on the saw blade |
Concentricity | is ensuring all teeth are at the same radius from the saw blade centre and that one tip is not higher than another |
Disposing of may include: | recycling tipped circular saws that cannot be sharpened or cannot be repaired re-using tipped circular saws that cannot be sharpened or cannot be repaired |
Records and reports may include: | the blade 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 |