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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Determine job requirements
   • Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs)
   • Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
   • Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
   • Identify job requirements from specifications, drawings, job sheets or work instructions
2. Prepare work pieces
   • Receive, check pieces and assess any follow-up action in accordance with workplace procedures, including quality checks
   • Assess quality of received component parts or pieces
   • Lay out work pieces in accordance with workplace procedures and specifications
3. Prepare workstation
   • Set up workbench and seating to achieve operator comfort and to minimise fatigue
   • Keep records in accordance with procedures
   • Select threads according to specifications
   • Check and change needle types as necessary
   • Determine stitch length and tension according to manufacturing schedule
4. Perform hand sewing
   • Select pieces according to size, colour and style
   • Sew seams by hand to achieve specified results and quality expectations
   • Trim threads, where required
   • Reinforce products according to style
   • Perform decorative hand stitching in accordance with specifications
   • Assess final quality check for hand sewing operation against specifications
5. Despatch completed work
   • Bundle, stack, store or despatch completed component parts, panels or pieces
   • Record production faults
   • Complete records

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.
Workplace procedures include one or more of the following:	requirements prescribed by legislation, industry codes and standards, awards, agreements and conditions of employment SOPs work instructions oral, written and visual communication quality practices, including responsibility for maintenance of own work quality and contribution to quality improvement of team or section output housekeeping tasks related to environmental protection, waste disposal, pollution control and recycling WHS practices
Australian Standards include:	the relevant industry or Australian Standards that are current at the time this unit is being undertaken
Decorative hand stitching includes one or more of the following:	fancy and mock stitching cable stitching glove stitching top stitching
WHS practices	WHS practices must include hazard identification and control, risk assessment and implementation of risk reduction measures specific to the tasks described by this unit, and include one or more of the following: manual handling techniques PPE safe materials handling ergonomic arrangement of workplaces following marked walkways safe storage of equipment housekeeping reporting accidents and incidents other WHS practices relevant to the job and enterprise

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria, and include:

reading and following work instructions, standard operating procedures (SOPs), safe work practices

interpreting specifications of needles, threads and materials, and setting up material for hand sewing

selecting pieces according to size, colour and style and determining thread and stitch length to meet specifications

performing hand sewing to sew seams using a variety of stitches to achieve specified results and quality expectations on at least five (5) samples

reinforcing products according to style

performing decorative hand stitching on at least three (3) samples in accordance with specifications

inspecting completed work to determine quality, identify faults and determine required action

despatching completed work and maintaining accurate records.

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence must be provided that demonstrates knowledge of:

safe work practices and procedures and use of personal protective equipment (PPE)

relevant Australian Standards

principles and techniques of hand sewing, including various types of stitches used

range of needles, threads and associated tools used in hand sewing, and their appropriateness for particular applications

materials specifications and material sewing characteristics

relevant quality standards for hand sewing

work health and safety (WHS) and environmental requirements of relevant industry and workplace procedures

general housekeeping policies and procedures

relevant federal and state or territory legislative or regulatory requirements

recording and reporting procedures.

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