VU23420 - Apply safe work practices using woodwork machinery in a technology teaching environment
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Prerequisites
(Or equivalent to be determined by unit coordinator)
Co-requisites
(Corequisite units must be studied concurrently with this unit)
Overview
This unit describes the performance outcomes skills and knowledge required to apply safe work practices when operating a range of woodwork machines and equipment used in a technology teaching environment. It requires the ability to apply the relevant safety guidelines and procedures when setting up, operating and shutting down woodwork machinery and equipment used while carrying out the activities of a woodwork project. This unit applies to registered teachers and support technicians (non-teaching) using woodwork machinery and equipment in a technology teaching environment. This unit is not intended to provide vocational competencies to operate metalwork machinery in a non-school environment.
Assessment
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:
- demonstrate safe work practices using a minimum of three (3) examples of static machines and a minimum of three (3) examples of portable equipment to complete a woodwork project
- plan a wood work project including obtaining resources;
- conduct safety checks on portable and static equipment;
- demonstrate post-use cleaning and maintenance of the portable and static equipment.
Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
- Department of Education (DE)/school policies and guidelines relevant to technology teaching
- Department of Education (DE) resource: Use of Machinery in Technology Teaching: https://www.education.vic.gov.au/hrweb/safetyhw/Pages/technology.aspx
- occupational health and safety (OHS) roles and responsibilities of technology staff and school management
- sources of OHS information and advice
- hazards and risks in a woodworking technology teaching environment including methods to minimise the hazards and risks to self and others
- personal protective equipment (PPE) for a woodworking environment
- types of woodwork machinery static and portable, typically used in a technology teaching classroom
- safe work practices when using static and portable woodwork machinery and equipment
- basic maintenance requirements for static and portable woodwork machinery and equipment.
Required reading
The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.
As part of a course
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):