Elements and Performance Criteria
- Check quality of lens
- Apply clean-room practices
- Apply dirty-room practices
- Ensure all solvents, acids and cleaning products are labelled in compliance with OH&S criteria and Material Data Safety Sheets
- Recognise 'hazards' and address relevant hazardous situations appropriately
- Ensure all safety practices are complied with in ordering, use, handling and storage of solvents, acids and cleaning products
- Ensure all legislative and environmental regulations are adhered to in the disposal of solvents, acids and cleaning products
- Ensure use of appropriate PPEs within the dirty-room environment
- Identify type of coating
- Apply coating to lenses
- Prepare lens for coating, ensuring holding apparatus will not interfere with quality of coating
- Apply hard and/or primer coating to specifications
- Cure lens coating according to manufacturers' recommendations
- Complete all quality checks on substratum ensuring compliance to needs of vacuum deposition process
- Apply vacuum coating
- Check coating finish
- Check light transmission of coating in line with manufacturer/suppliers recommendations and/or organisational policies and procedure
- Check lens surface in line with manufacturer/ supplier recommendations and/or organisation policies and procedure
- Check surface quality in line with manufacturer/ supplier recommendations and or organisation policies and procedure
- Despatch lens