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. |
Procedures | Procedures may be written, verbal, computer-based or in some other form, and may include: all work instructions standard operating procedures formulas/recipes batch sheets temporary instructions product drawings and/or specifications any similar instructions provided for the smooth running of the plant good operating practice as may be defined by industry codes of practice (e.g. Responsible Care) and government regulations |
Requirements of final product | Requirements of final product may be determined from various sources, including: drawings product specifications customer requests descriptions of required use of product |
Mould features | Mould features include: relief, parting lines efficient lay-up |
Suitability of plug | Suitability of plug includes: release angles parting lines |
Prepare plug | Prepare plug includes: cleaning repairing surface blemishes applying release systems |
Detail mould | Detail mould includes: buff fill get ready for production |
Routine faults | Typical routine faults may include: gel coat sag slow curing rates blistering wrinkles pinholes brush marks poor surface finish |
Non-routine faults | Non-routine faults, which may have multiple causes, may include: release agents failure mould release failure warping or cracking after moulding |
Typical process and product problems | Typical process and product problems may include: structural strength, rigidity and stability of the tooling dimensional accuracy of the tooling allowances in the design for shrinkage, deformations and alterations in the process from tooling to mould to finished composite product placement of flanges, closures, fitments, supports, struts and stiffeners variations in materials and/or contamination of materials |
Logs and reports | Logs and reports may include: paper or electronic based verbal reports items found which require action |
Appropriate action | Appropriate action includes: determining problems needing action determining possible fault causes rectifying problem using appropriate solution within area of responsibility following through items initiated until final resolution has occurred reporting problems outside area of responsibility to designated person |
Health, safety and environment (HSE) | All operations to which this unit applies are subject to stringent HSE requirements, which may be imposed through state/territory or federal legislation, and these must not be compromised at any time. Where there is an apparent conflict between Performance Criteria and HSE requirements, the HSE requirements take precedence |