1. > Quality procedures are explained and applied in wood yard operations.
Safety, health, environmental and fire prevention procedures within wood yard operations are adhered to and explained, using appropriate examples and descriptions.
2. > The origin, use and properties of raw materials are understood and explained.
The fundamental principles of the woodyard processes are understood and explained.
The main components of the woodyard process are described and explained.
Utilities are described and explained.
3. > Pre-checks are carried out, the process is started up, monitored and controlled and shut down.
Basic business principles (level 2) with regards to woodyard operations are understood and implemented.
Range:
Fixed and variable costs relating to transport, raw materials, chip production and waste.
4. > Logs are received and stored in a wood yard.
Woodchips are produced and stored.
The process and variables in wood yard operations are understood and described, using appropriate examples and descriptions.
Integrated Assessment
The unit standards, on which this qualification is based, describe the competent performance in woodyard operations. The criteria, by which competence is judged, as well as the range of circumstances in which competence is demonstrated, are found in each unit standard.
Integrated assessment methods and tools for this qualification must allow the learner to demonstrate the acquired knowledge and the safe and efficient competencies required in woodyard operations. For summative assessment the tools include:
Written and/or oral tests to determine level of knowledge and
On-the-job observation to determine applied competence.
The tools used for formative assessment during the learning programme include:
Written tests
Oral testing
On-the-job observation
Role-play situations.
For each learner a portfolio of evidence of all these assessments must be built up for record-keeping purposes. This portfolio may include, inter alia:
Poduction reports
Journals/logbooks, records of work performance.
Work samples
Supervisor and peer reports
Relevant awards or certificates.
Previous assessment records.
The learner’s level of prior learning will determine the way an integrated assessment will be conducted.
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