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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 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) |
Docking | is the process of cutting boards to set lengths |
Boards may include: | native timber species imported timber species dressed timber in-the-rough timber stress and non-stress graded timber preservative treated timber |
Work order is to include: | instructions for the docking and despatch of timber and timber products from the work site and may include: type size length angle 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 |
Equipment may include: | measuring equipment power operated, manually controlled docking and trimming saws where the cutting angle is controlled relative to the board guides and clamps saws with adjustable angle saws with one blade radial arm saws table saws bench saws saws with automatic feed and is to include: procedures for saw lock-out such as protecting operators and co-workers from accidental injury by isolating the machine from the power source |
Cutting pattern and saw set-up sequences are to be limited to: | single cuts requiring one cutting pass set up of cutting lengths number of boards to be cut |
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 |
Grading | is the process of: visually evaluating material characteristics and features for classification into varying strength and appearance grades inspecting timber to classify quality of individual boards |
Tolerance | is a set limit for cutting over or under the required length within a set margin of acceptance usually + or - 0. 5 mm or in line with order or organisational requirements |
Features may include: | warp wane cupping shakes insect defects knots resin pockets |
Disposing of may include: | recycling boards with features, incorrect cuts and off-cuts re-using boards with features, incorrect cuts and off-cuts |
Mechanical feed may include: | conveyor belt systems |
Recorded and reported may include: | docking requirements product type size inspection grading and marking outcomes storage locations quality outcomes hazards incidents equipment malfunctions and may be: manual using a computer-based system or another appropriate organisational communication system |
Stacked may include: | preparing for transport categorising in common size, length and angle marking lots in line with work order and site requirements locating as not to block access or passage |
Dealing with may include: | repair of damaged saws and blunt or damaged saw blades disposing of saws and saw blades that cannot be repaired |