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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) |
Work order is to include: | instructions for the portable sawmill location sawing logs and despatching from the work site to down-stream processing and may include: 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 |
Logs are to include: | assessment of: diameter range curvature faults species moisture content |
Sawing | is the process of cutting a log into parts including green boards and off-cuts |
Equipment includes: | portable sawmills 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, i.e. the most and widest boards possible 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 |
Positioned may include: | use of: cant hooks winches log rollers mechanical lifting equipment |
Stabilised may include: | use of: chock logs wedges pre-notched runners |
Sequence of cuts | is the process of sawing a log into its parts as specified by the work order and the characteristics of the log in an order which optimises return of green boards |
Carriage may include: | component of the portable sawmill that: supports the log and assists with feed during the sawing process supports the saw and allows the saw to travel through the log |
Sawn edges are to include: | waste sections of timber round sides of the first cut |
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 |
Sawn recovery | is the marketable timber from the reject timber and off-cuts |
Records and reports may detail: | 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 |
Dealing with may include: | repairing blunt or damaged saws and saw blades disposing of blunt or damaged saws and saw blades that cannot be repaired |