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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 |
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) |
Veneer | is the thin sheet of timber (varying in thickness to suit organisational or customer specifications) used to produce the layers of plywood types are usually referred to as quarter sawn, back sawn and radial (or rotary) sawn |
Work order is to include: | instructions for the slicing of timber veneer from prepared flitches and may include: 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 |
Slicing | is the process of removing timber in leaf form from a prepared flitch using a vertical or horizontal slicing machine |
Storage locations may include: | the use of: storage racks storage bays bins stacks pallet boxes modularised storage components temporary stacking bays (stand, frame or ground) |
Equipment is to include: | a vertical or horizontal slicing machine procedures for equipment lock-out, ie 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 |
Flitches | are logs which have been debarked and rough squared to be accommodated in a flitch slicing machine to allow the horizontal slicing of veneer, either quarter sawn or back sawn |
Defects may include: | warp wane cupping shakes insect defects knots resin pockets |
Disposing of may include: | recycling material with defects and rejected flitch and backing-boards re-using material with defects and rejected flitch and backing-boards |
Records and reports may include: | product type size profile inspection storage locations quality outcomes hazards incidents equipment malfunctions and may be: manual using a computer-based system or another appropriate organisational communication system |