Application
This unit covers the skills and knowledge required to assemble, clean, disassemble and operate a bandsaw.
This unit is applicable to workers in meat processing plants, smallgoods factories, boning rooms, food services operations, knackeries, game meat processing plants, wholesale and retail operations.
This unit must be delivered in the context of Australian meat processing standards and regulations.
No occupational licensing, legislative or certification requirements are known to apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Elements and Performance Criteria
Element | Performance criteria |
Elements describe the essential outcomes. | Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. |
1. Assemble a bandsaw | 1.1 Assemble bandsaw according to manufacturer's specifications and workplace requirements. 1.2 Checked bandsaw guards and scrapers for functioning and safety according to manufacturer's specifications and workplace health and safety requirements. 1.3 Check bandsaw to ensure it is clean in accordance with hygiene and sanitation, and workplace requirements. |
2. Operate a bandsaw | 2.1 Operate bandsaw in accordance with workplace requirements and manufacturer's specifications. 2.2 Operate bandsaw in accordance with workplace health and safety requirements. 2.3 Use bandsaw to cut meat products according to product specifications and workplace requirements. |
3. Clean a bandsaw | 3.1 Clean bandsaw to manufacturer's, hygiene, workplace health and safety and workplace requirements. |
4. Disassemble bandsaw | 4.1 Disassemble bandsaw according to manufacturer's, workplace health and safety and workplace requirements 4.2 Perform routine maintenance according to workplace requirements. |
Evidence of Performance
Assessment must involve cutting meat products over a period of time.
The candidate must:
assemble and operate a bandsaw to manufacturer's, workplace, workplace health and safety, and hygiene and sanitation requirements
carry out a pre-operational safety check on the bandsaw
cut products using the bandsaw according to workplace, workplace health and safety and hygiene requirements
use the bandsaw according to workplace health and safety, hygiene and sanitation, Quality Assurance (QA) and workplace requirements
seek advice from appropriate sources when working with new products or equipment
demonstrate effective use of all cutting guides and safety guards
report equipment faults either verbally or in writing to supervisor in accordance with workplace requirements
work safely and effectively as an individual and as part of a team
apply relevant regulatory requirements
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:
purpose and effective use of all cutting guides and safety guards
purpose and use of the bandsaw
safety procedures related to use of the bandsaw
relevant regulatory requirements
workplace health and safety requirements for operating a bandsaw
workplace requirements related to:
cleaning a bandsaw
disassembly and reassembly of the bandsaw
operating a bandsaw
routine maintenance of a bandsaw
Assessment Conditions
Competency must be demonstrated over time and under typical operating and production conditions for the enterprise.
Assessment must occur in the workplace under normal operating conditions or in a simulated environment.
As a minimum, the following three forms of assessment must be used:
quiz of underpinning knowledge
workplace demonstration
workplace referee or third-party report of performance over time
Assessors must satisfy current standards for RTOs.
Foundation Skills
Foundation Skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.