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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for potting operations
   • Confirm job requirements
   • Confirm environmental guidelines and identify potential health and safety hazards and controls according to workplace procedures
   • Select, fit and use personal protective equipment relevant to job requirements
   • Ensure potting materials are available
   • Blend potting media to ensure consistency
   • Clean and treat pots and work areas to minimise risk of pest and pathogen contamination
   • Prepare grafted cuttings ready for potting
   • Check, maintain and set equipment according to workplace procedures
2. Pot propagated material
   • Identify and collect callused cuttings requiring potting
   • Place soil in pots according to job requirements
   • Plant cuttings according to job requirements
   • Label potted cuttings according to workplace procedures
3. Carry out post-potting treatments
   • Transfer potted cuttings to growing environment according to workplace procedures
   • Hydrate potted cuttings according to workplace procedures
   • Prepare and apply treatments according to health and safety in the workplace requirements
   • Collect and dispose of waste according to workplace procedures
4. Complete potting operations
   • Identify and report non-conformances
   • Clean, maintain and store equipment according to workplace procedures
   • Record workplace information according to workplace procedures