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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 safe forest practices, including required actions relating to forest fire manual handling, including shifting, lifting and carrying |
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, maintenance and storage requirements environmental management requirements (waste minimisation and disposal, recycling and re-use guidelines) |
Work order is to include: | instructions for visually stress-grading material and may include: type width length thickness quantity 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 |
Grading | is the process of visually evaluating material characteristics for classification into various strength and structural grades |
Standards may include: | Australian Standards requirements established by the client requirements established by the producer |
Equipment may include: | vernier callipers profile gauges moisture meters (resistance and capacitance) tapes marking implements |
Softwood: | is non-pored wood that usually comes from trees with needle-like foliage and a more uniform cell structure and may include: native timber species imported timber species dressed timber in-the-rough timber preservative treated timber |
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 |
Species may include: | native species imported species |
Seasoning | is the process of drying timber either with kilns or air-drying methods |
Tolerance | is the enterprise-accepted deviation from the perfect specifications |
Characteristics may include: | knots borer holes stain checks tight resin pockets shakes wane want heart and heart shakes termite galleries decay lyctus susceptible sapwood and compression failures and fractures colour density texture grain figure qualities uses |
Moisture content | is the amount of moisture maintained in timber after kiln drying or production to avoid cracking and deforming |
Structural grade is to include: | structural conformity of the timber consistency of the structural quality free of defects which may weaken strength, such as knots, shakes and short grain |
Appearance is to include: | assessing the appropriateness of: defects contamination timber colours surface characteristics colour grain pattern |
Disposing of may include: | recycling timber with inappropriate defects or contamination re-using timber with inappropriate defects or contamination redirecting timber with inappropriate defects or contamination for energy recovery |
Records and reports may include: | stress-grading requirements product type and size inspection information grading and marking outcomes storage locations quality outcomes hazards incidents equipment malfunctions and may be: manual computer-based system other appropriate organisational communication system |