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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 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) |
Poles and debarked logs may include: | hardwood or softwood poles left in the round with or without preservative treatment logs destined for conversion to boards |
Work order is to include: | instructions for receipt/despatch and grading sorting and marking of poles or debarked logs to/from the designated storage location or processing and may include: type size quantity and may also include: 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 |
Storage locations may include: | storage racks storage bays bins stacks pallet boxes modularised storage components temporary stacking bays (stand, frame or ground) and may be divided into: standard product classification product designation size dimension stack number weight grade shelf life stock rotation position |
Equipment may include: | measuring equipment moisture meters lifting equipment for the movement of poles or logs |
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 |
Size is to include: | largest through to smallest diameters of poles and debarked timber within industry or site standards longest through to shortest lengths of poles and debarked logs within industry or site standards |
Range | is the number of classifications/grades poles or logs are sorted into based on diameter or length |
Defects may include: | warp wane curvature shakes insect defects knots resin pockets |
Moisture content | is the amount of moisture maintained in poles or debarked logs after kiln drying to avoid cracking and deforming in Australia generally ranges between 10% in warmer, more humid climates to 14% in cooler climates |
Records and reports may include: | product type size inspection grading and labelling outcomes storage locations quality outcomes hazards incidents equipment malfunctions and may be: manual using a computer-based system or other appropriate organisational communication system |
Disposing of may include: | recycling sub-standard material re-using sub-standard material |
On-site movement of material may include: | the use of: conveyor belt systems track systems lifting equipment lifting equipment such as: fork lifts slings lifting/moving frames trolley jacks gantry cranes dozers loaders assistance with lifting such as: the involvement of two or more personnel to lift materials manually or to guide the movement of mechanical equipment |