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The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. |
OHS requirements: | are to be in line with applicable commonwealth, state or territory legislation and regulations, and organisational safety policies and procedures, and may include: personal protective equipment and clothing safety equipment first aid equipment fire fighting equipment hazard and risk control fatigue management elimination of hazardous materials and substances safe forest practices, including required actions relating to forest fire manual handling including shifting, lifting and carrying |
Environmental requirements may include: | legislation organisational policies and procedures workplace practices |
Legislative requirements: | are to be in line with applicable commonwealth, state or territory legislation, regulations, certification requirements and codes of practice and may include: award and enterprise agreements industrial relations Australian Standards confidentiality and privacy OHS the environment equal opportunity anti-discrimination relevant industry codes of practice duty of care |
Organisational requirements may include: | legal organisational and site guidelines policies and procedures relating to own role and responsibility quality assurance procedural manuals quality and continuous improvement processes and standards OHS, emergency and evacuation procedures ethical standards recording and reporting requirements equipment use, maintenance and storage requirements environmental management requirements (waste minimisation and disposal, recycling and re-use guidelines) |
Chips or flakes | are the output product as a result of converting wood into chip or flake material, which is then used to produce other products |
Work order is to include: | instructions for the assessment of chips and the chip or flake grade and may include: feed rate quantity instructions for the environmental monitoring of work and procedures environmental care requirements relevant to the work |
Appropriate personnel may include: | supervisors suppliers clients colleagues managers |
Assessing wood is to include: | species size moisture content contamination issues associated with selected wood, such as: logs billets off-cuts waste timber down grade timber residue chips reject boards |
Stockpile | is the pile of available wood products ready for conversion to chips or flakes, classified in size and species |
Equipment is to include: | procedures for equipment lock-out, such as protecting operators and co-workers from accidental injury by isolating the machine from the power source and may include: chippers hoggers shredders and knife mills mechanised feed systems |
Communication may include: | verbal and non-verbal language constructive feedback active listening questioning to clarify and confirm understanding use of positive, confident and cooperative language use of language and concepts appropriate to individual social and cultural differences control of tone of voice |
Pre-startup checks | are conducted to ensure: machine has been set up correctly systems are performing accurately machine is operating to optimum performance |
Feed systems may include: | conveyors chutes or track systems moving wood to the chipper moving processed wood chips or flakes from the chipping machines |
Conveyor operations may include: | moving wood products to the chipping/flaking machinery extracting chips or flakes and moving to collection bins |
Emergency shutdown | is the immediate shutting off of equipment to prevent an accident or damage to the machine or product |
Records and reports may include: | product type size inspection information grading and labelling outcomes storage locations quality outcomes hazards incidents equipment malfunctions and may be: manual computer-based system other appropriate organisational communication system |