Application
This unit of competency covers the skills and knowledge required to assess, grade and sort leather products to specifications and workplace standards.
Work may be conducted in small to large scale enterprises and may involve individual and team activities. Work is performed within industry codes, standards and defined procedures.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Elements and Performance Criteria
Elements describe the essential outcomes. | Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. | ||
1 | Determine job requirements | 1.1 | Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs) |
1.2 | Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times | ||
1.3 | Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs | ||
1.4 | Identify job requirements from specifications, drawings, job sheets or work instructions | ||
2 | Assess leather | 2.1 | Assess sections and quality within a hide and identify faults or discrepancies and variance in quality of materials supplied |
2.2 | Assess leather for use in production | ||
2.3 | Check leather against specifications | ||
3 | Grade and sort skins | 3.1 | Grade skins according to workplace grading standards |
3.2 | Grade each hide according to proportion of defects in relation to whole size | ||
3.3 | Sort skins for their suitability for particular styles | ||
4 | Calculate allowance | 4.1 | Calculate allowance manually or by computer on available materials and product to workplace standards |
4.2 | Match leather against work specifications and issue to clicker | ||
Evidence of Performance
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.
Evidence of Knowledge
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.
Assessment Conditions
Assessors must:
satisfy the assessor competency requirements that are in place at the time of the assessment, as set by the VET regulator
have vocational competency in grading leather, at least to the level being assessed, with relevant industry knowledge and experience.
Assessment should occur in operational workplace situations. Where this is not possible, or where personal safety or environmental damage are limiting factors, assessment must occur in a sufficiently rigorous simulated environment reflecting realistic operational workplace conditions. This must cover all aspects of workplace performance, including environment, task skills, task management skills, contingency management skills and job role environment skills.
Assessment processes and techniques must be appropriate to the language, literacy and numeracy requirements of the work being performed and the needs of the candidate.
Conditions for assessment must include access to all tools, equipment, materials and documentation required, including relevant workplace procedures, product and manufacturing specifications associated with this unit.
Foundation Skills
This section describes those required skills (language, literacy and numeracy) that are essential to performance.
Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.
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 |
Sectors
Not applicable
Competency Field
Leather production