Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
PMAOPS260A Mapping and Delivery Guide
Conduct screening operations
Version 1.0
Issue Date: April 2024
Qualification | - |
Unit of Competency | PMAOPS260A - Conduct screening operations |
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Description | This unit of competency covers the skills and knowledge needed to conduct screening operations in metalliferous processing, extractive and other industries using screens to separate coarser from finer solids. It includes the planning and preparing for operations, conducting screening plant operations and carrying out post-operational procedures. | ||
Employability Skills | This unit contains employability skills. | ||
Learning Outcomes and Application | This unit applies to a person who has the responsibility for starting, stopping and monitoring screening operations and covers a variety of screen types. This unit applies to an individual working alone or as part of a team or group and working in liaison with other shift team members and the control room operator, as appropriate.This unit has a relationship with other materials handling competencies, such as PMC552008B Operate crushing equipment, PMC562070B Move materials and PMAOPS210B Operate particulates handling equipment, which may apply as part of the processing operation.This unit requires a detailed knowledge of screening operations, screen types and operating principles.This unit has been written to apply to screening/sizing operations as they occur with crushed/ground solid material. However, it should also be applicable to applications wherever particulates of different sizes need to be separated/classified, such as plastic pellets, and where solids feed to a process, with appropriate contextualisation. | ||
Duration and Setting | X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting. |
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Prerequisites/co-requisites | Not applicable. | ||
Competency Field |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
Slides PPT |
Assessment 1 | Assessment 2 | Assessment 3 | Assessment 4 | |
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Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Plan and prepare for operations |
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