Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to apply standardised work practices to support continuous improvement.
This unit applies to workers who are required to contribute to continuous improvement within their own role or as part of a formal or ad hoc team by applying standardised procedures and practices and suggesting how to improve them.
This unit applies to any organisation that is implementing continuous improvement or more formal competitive systems and practices.
No licensing or certification requirements exist at the time of publication. Relevant legislation, industry standards and codes of practice within Australia must be applied.

What You'll Learn

Assessment Requirements

Performance Evidence

There must be evidence the candidate has completed the tasks outlined in the elements and performance criteria of this unit, and demonstrated the ability to:
• apply at least one standardised procedure for the work area
• suggest, apply and review at least 2 improvements to at least one standardised procedure.

Knowledge Evidence

There must be evidence the candidate has knowledge of:
• customer needs, including internal and external customers
• own role in delivering value to customers
• forms of takt time that apply to different types of tasks
• relevance of takt time and available time to own role or work area
• identification and possible causes of variability and muda in own role or work area.

Assessment Conditions

Skills must have been demonstrated in the workplace or in a simulated environment that reflects workplace conditions and contingencies. The following conditions must be met for this unit:
• use of suitable facilities, equipment and resources, including:
• standardised procedure/s for the job role or work area
• modelling of industry operating conditions.
Assessors must satisfy the NVR/AQTF mandatory competency requirements for assessors.

Foundation Skills

• {'skill': 'Foundation Skills', 'description': 'This section describes those language, literacy, numeracy and employment skills that are essential to performance but not explicit in the performance criteria.\n• Reading skills to understand familiar workplace procedures and work documentation\n• Writing skills to communicate simple information in familiar workplace documents\n• Oral communication skills to discuss issues within familiar procedures and suggest improvements\n• Numeracy skills to perform simple calculations using time, quantities, fractions and percentages.\nOther foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit.'}

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