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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 to modify millinery blocks
   • Interpret design to determine the hat block shape required
   • Determine whether more than one block shape is required for the design
   • Document the shapes required for the design
   • Select and prepare equipment, materials and workstation
   • Select hat blocks that will be used in the modification
3. Modify block
   • Prepare block to be modified according to design and/or specifications
   • Plan modifications and prepare block
   • Modify the block using the selected materials according to workplace procedures and requirements of the materials
4. Finalise modified block
   • Check proportions and styling of modified hat block against design requirements
   • Check quality, durability and accuracy of modifications
   • Perform any necessary adjustments

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, awards, agreements and conditions of employment standard operating procedures work instructions PPE 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
Preparing block includes one or more of the following:	cleaning and washing hat block removing any previous modifications from hat block checking compatibility if several hat blocks are to be used for the one modification covering or protecting hat block with plastic film
Planning modifications includes one or more of the following:	drawing or marking onto the hat block the new shape measuring checking the plan against design determining permanency of modification determining effect on original shape of hat block
Quality, durability and accuracy of modifications include one or more of the following:	smoothness firmness relationship to hat design required compatibility of hat block shapes to each other head size proportion

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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 design sketch to determine the hat block shape or shapes required

selecting and preparing block/s to be modified according to design and/or specifications

selecting and preparing millinery equipment, hat block/s for modification and modification materials

modifying at least two (2) hat blocks using the selected materials according to workplace procedures and requirements of the materials

performing quality checks and adjustments

checking proportions and styling of modified hat block against design requirements

checking quality, durability and accuracy of modifications.

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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)

measurement taking

proportion

millinery materials and equipment:

hat blocks

plastic film

cord

cutting tools

pins

drawing equipment

block shapes:

crown

brim

section

collar

blocking techniques

quality standards

modification materials:

putty

flexible rubber or plastic shapes, such as hoses

buckram

plaster

improvised materials, such as papier-mâché and found objects

requirements of modification materials:

manufacturer instructions

access to water

consistency of mix

hardening or drying time

quality practices

workplace procedures.

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