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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. |
Construction job roles include: | bricklaying and blocklaying carpentry concreting demolition dogging formwork and falsework painting and decorating rigging roof tiling scaffolding solid plastering steelfixing wall and ceiling lining wall and floor tiling waterproofing. |
Construction employment conditions include coverage of: | AWAs bulletins and newsletters enterprise agreements industrial awards industry and workplace codes of practice workplace agreements. |
Organisational requirements include: | access and equity principles and practice anti-discrimination and related policy business and performance plans ethical standards goals and objectives legal and organisation policy, guidelines and requirements quality systems and processes. |
Responsibilities and duties include: | codes of conduct job description and employment arrangements organisation's policy relevant to work role skills training and competencies supervision and accountability requirements, including OHS team structures. |
Safe work methods and practices include: | access to site amenities, such as drinking water and toilets day to day observation of OHS policies and procedures emergency procedures and use of basic firefighting equipment general requirements for safe use of plant and equipment general requirements for use of personal protective equipment and clothing housekeeping to ensure a clean, tidy and safer work area no drugs and alcohol at work preventing bullying and harassment risk assessment smoking in designated areas storage and disposal of waste and debris according to established procedures and environmental protection requirements. |
Australian government and state and territory OHS legislative requirements include: | Australian standards construction industry OHS standards and guidelines duty of care health and safety representatives, committees and supervisors licences, tickets or certificates of competency National Code of Practice for Induction Training for Construction Work national safety standards OHS and welfare Acts and regulations safety codes of practice, and JSA and safe work method statements. |
Work group members include: | coach or mentor employee representative peers, work colleagues, team, enterprise and other members of the organisation supervisor or manager. |
Personal protective equipment includes: | caps dust masks and respirators ear muffs and plugs gloves hard hats high visibility vests jackets overalls safety glasses/goggles steel capped boots. |
Quality requirements include relevant regulations, including: | Australian standards internal company quality policy and standards manufacturer specifications, where specified workplace operations and procedures. |
Information includes: | diagrams or sketches instructions issued by authorised organisational or external personnel manufacturer specifications and instructions material safety data sheets (MSDS) memos organisation work specifications and requirements plans and specifications regulatory and legislative requirements relevant Australian standards safe work procedures or equivalent signage verbal or written and graphical instructions work bulletins work schedules. |
Teams: | is a generic term that refers to the site work organisation may be known/titled locally as crews, gangs, shifts or other industrially and historically acceptable term. |
Learning needs and development processes include competency achievement/maintenance processes, which include: | assessment processes formal vocational education and training on-the-job training and job rotation recognition of prior learning refresher training. |
Environmental and resource efficiency issues include: | minimisation of environmental risks and maximisation of opportunities to improve environmental performance and to promote more efficient production and consumption of natural resources on the work site, for example by minimising waste, through participation in or use of a waste minimisation system using resources efficiently, including reducing material usage and supporting efficient energy and water use, such as: air testing pipes efficient fittings insulation site management to minimise stormwater pollution strategic use of materials to reduce off-cuts and wastage tool maintenance transportation using alternative practices, procedures and materials/products that reduce or eliminate resource consumption. |
Appropriate techniques for recording resource use include: | examination and documentation of resources on work site examination and measurement of resources, materials and products from suppliers examination of relevant information and data on efficiency and resource reduction instructions and reports from other parties involved in the process of identifying and implementing improvements. |
Environmental hazards include: | substances (e.g. resource, waste, by-product) that are dangerous to living things in the environment, such as humans, animals, plants and water, including storage, handling and disposal of the following substances: toxic corrosive flammable explosive may be infectious or have other dangerous characteristics. |
Environmental requirements are to cover workplace quality management and include: | clean-up protection stormwater protection waste management. |
Suggestions for sustainable use of resources includes ideas that help to: | ensure appropriate use of materials and make recommendations to others to use sustainable products and practices identify alternative sources of energy or energy conservation improve energy and water efficiency prevent and minimise risks and maximise opportunities, such as use of solar or grey water, and other alternative forms of energy/resources where appropriate reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by reducing waste, transportation and use of non-renewable resources, such as energy, water, fuel, and materials use alternative products/materials, procedures and installation techniques to support efficiency and sustainability use renewable, recyclable, reusable and recoverable resources (energy, water, materials/products and waste). |
Compliance with environmental requirements includes: | meeting relevant acts, laws, by-laws and regulations or best practice to support compliance in environmental performance and sustainability at each level as required (such as Environmental Protection, Biodiversity Conservation Act, BCA), including: federal industry international local government organisation reporting breaches state and territory. |
Designated personnel to be contacted are determined by the enterprise and include: | managers supervisors other senior personnel assigned to particular work site roles, such as safety officer. |