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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Determine job requirements
   • Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs)
2. Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
3. Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
4. Identify job requirements from specifications, drawings, job sheets or work instructions
5. Select and set up equipment for manual thermal cutting, gouging and shaping
   • Select appropriate cutting process and procedure for material being worked
6. Select and assemble appropriate accessories and equipment
7. Ensure equipment is in safe working condition
8. Set up equipment following SOPs
9. Perform hand held thermal cutting and shaping
   • Follow equipment start-up procedures
10. Cut material to specifications
11. Identify cutting defects and take corrective action in accordance with SOPs
12. Remove material with minimum loss of sound metal
13. Check final shape/profile/surface finish for compliance with specifications

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.
Methods include one (1) or more of the following:	oxy acetylene oxy/hydrogen plasma carbon arc
Cutting and shaping equipment includes the following:	gas cylinders hoses blowpipes tips and nozzles regulators flashback arrestors

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