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Elements and Performance Criteria
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Performance Evidence
A person demonstrating competency in this unit must satisfy all of the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit. If a specific volume or frequency is not stated below, then evidence must be provided that the following requirements have been performed on at least one occasion:
comply with applicable federal, state or territory legislative and regulatory requirements and codes of practice including WHS, environmental and organisational policies and procedures relevant to felling trees at an intermediate levelcomply with organisational policies and procedures relevant to felling trees manually at an intermediate levelcomply with applicable licensing and certification requirements relevant to felling trees at an intermediate leveleffectively communicate and use safe working practices, including maintaining an awareness of other personnel activity in the work area assess site conditions, by applying environmental protection measures, detecting hazards and own skill level for felling trees at an intermediate levelconduct a tree assessmentidentify structural defects and stresses in trees and the impact on felling, including exclusion of trees from hand felling due to hazardous and difficult situations for assessment, monitoring and safe falling including a crown that contains dead or broken material, entanglement or malformation plan a felling sequence for individual trees and preparing surroundings including escape route fell intermediate trees using appropriate cuts safely without damage to personnel, equipment and surrounding environmentidentify trees that are hung upselect, prepare and maintain chainsaw equipment including recognising faults, problems and malfunctionsassess, plan and safely operate chainsaw equipment to manually fell trees at an intermediate level in forest, rural and community environmentsuse tree felling techniques including scarf cutting , back cutting to provide hinge-wood and the use of wedges to assist in controlling falling direction
Knowledge Evidence