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Evidence Guide: AHCNSY202 - Care for nursery plants

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AHCNSY202 - Care for nursery plants

What evidence can you provide to prove your understanding of each of the following citeria?

Prepare to work

  1. Clarify work activity instructions with supervisor
  2. Identify any work health and safety hazards and tell supervisor
  3. Select and use appropriate tools and equipment
  4. Select and use suitable personal protective equipment (PPE)
Clarify work activity instructions with supervisor

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Identify any work health and safety hazards and tell supervisor

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Select and use appropriate tools and equipment

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Select and use suitable personal protective equipment (PPE)

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Maintain the nursery environment

  1. Service irrigation system components for basic operational use and repair or replace basic user serviceable parts
  2. Check irrigation system for functionality
  3. Monitor environmental controls to ensure specified levels are maintained
  4. Follow hygiene practices to minimise risk of contamination
Service irrigation system components for basic operational use and repair or replace basic user serviceable parts

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Check irrigation system for functionality

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Monitor environmental controls to ensure specified levels are maintained

Completed
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Follow hygiene practices to minimise risk of contamination

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Maintain nursery plants

  1. Apply fertiliser and other products as directed
  2. Remove weeds from pots as directed
  3. Apply water in the quantity and method specified
  4. Block and space plants as required
  5. Prune plants as directed
  6. Stake and tie plants as directed
  7. Provide feedback to supervisor on work completed
Apply fertiliser and other products as directed

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Remove weeds from pots as directed

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Apply water in the quantity and method specified

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Block and space plants as required

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Prune plants as directed

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Stake and tie plants as directed

Completed
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Provide feedback to supervisor on work completed

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Complete nursery plant maintenance operation

  1. Record workplace information in the appropriate format
  2. Collect waste and dispose of or recycle
  3. Clean and store tools and equipment
Record workplace information in the appropriate format

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Collect waste and dispose of or recycle

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Clean and store tools and equipment

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Assessed

Teacher: ___________________________________ Date: _________

Signature: ________________________________________________

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Instructions to Assessors

Evidence Guide

Element

Performance criteria

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Prepare to work

1.1 Clarify work activity instructions with supervisor

1.2 Identify any work health and safety hazards and tell supervisor

1.3 Select and use appropriate tools and equipment

1.4 Select and use suitable personal protective equipment (PPE)

2. Maintain the nursery environment

2.1 Service irrigation system components for basic operational use and repair or replace basic user serviceable parts

2.2 Check irrigation system for functionality

2.3 Monitor environmental controls to ensure specified levels are maintained

2.4 Follow hygiene practices to minimise risk of contamination

3. Maintain nursery plants

3.1 Apply fertiliser and other products as directed

3.2 Remove weeds from pots as directed

3.3 Apply water in the quantity and method specified

3.4 Block and space plants as required

3.5 Prune plants as directed

3.6 Stake and tie plants as directed

3.7 Provide feedback to supervisor on work completed

4. Complete nursery plant maintenance operation

4.1 Record workplace information in the appropriate format

4.2 Collect waste and dispose of or recycle

4.3 Clean and store tools and equipment

Required Skills and Knowledge

Element

Performance criteria

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Prepare to work

1.1 Clarify work activity instructions with supervisor

1.2 Identify any work health and safety hazards and tell supervisor

1.3 Select and use appropriate tools and equipment

1.4 Select and use suitable personal protective equipment (PPE)

2. Maintain the nursery environment

2.1 Service irrigation system components for basic operational use and repair or replace basic user serviceable parts

2.2 Check irrigation system for functionality

2.3 Monitor environmental controls to ensure specified levels are maintained

2.4 Follow hygiene practices to minimise risk of contamination

3. Maintain nursery plants

3.1 Apply fertiliser and other products as directed

3.2 Remove weeds from pots as directed

3.3 Apply water in the quantity and method specified

3.4 Block and space plants as required

3.5 Prune plants as directed

3.6 Stake and tie plants as directed

3.7 Provide feedback to supervisor on work completed

4. Complete nursery plant maintenance operation

4.1 Record workplace information in the appropriate format

4.2 Collect waste and dispose of or recycle

4.3 Clean and store tools and equipment

The candidate must be assessed on their ability to integrate and apply the performance requirements of this unit in a workplace setting. Performance must be demonstrated consistently over time and in a suitable range of contexts.

The candidate must provide evidence that they can:

select and use appropriate tools and equipment

maintain nursery hygiene

Service, repair or replace basic operational irrigation system components and user serviceable parts

maintain nursery plants as instructed

check irrigation system performance

monitor environmental controls

recognise common problems in nursery plants

repair or replace user serviceable irrigation components

record workplace information

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

the principles and practices of nursery plant care

botany and plant physiology as applies to maintaining nursery plants

common problems that may occur with containerised plants in a controlled environment and their treatment

daily water requirements of nursery plants

hygiene and quality control when tending nursery plants

principles and operations of irrigation systems used in nurseries, in basic terms

Range Statement