VU23418 - Develop safe work practices using machinery and equipment in a technology teaching environment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work-based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

• apply relevant OHS workplace procedures and practices to a technology teaching environment
• apply hazard identification tools to identify and manage at least three (3) equipment/machinery-related hazards in a technology teaching environment
• apply at least three (3) risk control measures when operating machinery in a technology teaching environment outline the procedures to be followed for dealing with a safety incident in own school’s technology teaching area.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

• relevant occupational health and safety (OHS) legislation requirements relevant to technology teaching
• Department of Education (DE) and school policies and guidelines relevant to technology teaching including but not limited to: Use of Machinery in Technology Teaching https://www.education.vic.gov.au/hrweb/safetyhw/Pages/technology.aspx
• OHS duty of care responsibilities of staff and school management
• sources of OHS information and resources relevant to a technology teaching environment
• hazard identification process relevant to a technology teaching environment
• risk controls measures relevant to a technology teaching environment
• identification of particular safety issues for woodwork and/or metalwork equipment and machinery used in a technology teaching environment
• DE/school emergency response procedures
• application and care of personal protective equipment (PPE).