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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 heritage and traditional land owner issues |
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 and maintenance and storage requirements environmental management requirements (waste disposal, recycling and re-use guidelines) |
Environmental protection measures | may include action to limit the impact to: ground growth and canopy soil and water may include action to limit the impact of: general forest lean wind speed and direction fallen trees density of trees ground slope ground hazards obstacles |
Work order is to include: | instructions for the chipping and despatch of chipped timber from the work site and may include: type size length quantity grade 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 |
Timber may include: | complete logs log segments whole trees tree heads |
Equipment may include: | heavy production mobile chipping units specific safety attire maintenance tools and equipment and is to include: procedures for equipment lock-out, i.e. protecting operators and co-workers from accidental injury by isolating the machine |
Chipping | is the process of converting timber into varying chip sizes using mechanised chipping units, useable on-site during forestry harvesting operations |
Environmental and heritage concerns may include: | dust noise water flora and fauna heritage legislation culturally sensitive sites and artefacts plantations native forest |
Communication may include: | verbal and non-verbal language hand or other agreed signals eye contact with other operators or personnel active listening questioning to clarify and confirm understanding use of electronic communication devices |
Chipping unit may include: | heavy production mobile chipping units including: truck mounted heavy production chipping units trailer mounted chipping units independently driven motorised mobile chipping units feeding into a truck or other form of transportation petrol or diesel driven units that contain high powered spinning cutters which cut timber into chips |
Pre start-up checks | are conducted to ensure: equipment has been set-up correctly systems are performing accurately and operating to optimum performance |
Hazards may include: | uneven/unstable terrain trees fires overhead and underground services bridges buildings excavations traffic embankment cuttings structures and hazardous materials |
Capacity | is the capacity of the machinery to cope with certain size diameters of log or branch or the speed by which timber is fed into the chipper |
Chip sizes | may vary, dependent on the customer or work order and the capability of the chipper |
Transportation may include: | high trailers trucks rail cars other applicable forms of transport |
Emergency plan may include: | notification of authorities evacuation procedures isolation procedures equipment shut-down procedures clean up first aid use of personal protective equipment and clothing guarding access and exit |
Foreign matter | is the contamination of chip, stones, rocks, metal and other foreign matter which may blunt the cutters or affect operation of the chipper |
Records and reports may include: | timber type, size quality outcomes storage locations quality outcome hazards incidents or equipment malfunctions and may be: manual using a computer-based system or another appropriate organisational communication system |