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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. Assess leather
   • Assess sections and quality within a hide and identify faults or discrepancies and variance in quality of materials supplied
   • Assess leather for use in production
   • Check leather against specifications
3. Grade and sort skins
   • Grade skins according to workplace grading standards
   • Grade each hide according to proportion of defects in relation to whole size
   • Sort skins for their suitability for particular styles
4. Calculate allowance
   • Calculate allowance manually or by computer on available materials and product to workplace standards
   • Match leather against work specifications and issue to clicker

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
Assessment of leather includes one or more of the following:	weight substance colour shading softness stretch thickness
Grading includes one or more of the following:	surface finish blemishes substance sorting skins in regard to: size and shape colour types of defects
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, including industry codes and standards

planning and coordinating complicated grading operations

preparing equipment and work before commencing operations

handling and receiving and assessing a range of leather to work specifications

identifying faults or discrepancies in leather

grading at least ten (10) hides according to proportion of defects in relation to whole size

sorting skins for their suitability for particular styles

calculating allowances manually or by computer

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

equipment required grading operations

assessment of incoming leather in terms of weight, substance, colour, shading, softness, stretch and thickness

international, national and workplace grading standards

leather types

quality standards and practices

relevant federal and state or territory legislative or regulatory requirements

recording and reporting procedures.

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