Candidate Support Pack - Scottish Qualifications Authority

Introduction
About these Units
The following two Units are designed to help you cover all that’s required for pressing and
finishing garments:
• Press and finish garments following laundry (LDC8)
• Form-finish and inspect garments using steam/air (LDC11)
We have condensed these Units into one section here, because there is a lot of
information that’s common to both, and we want to avoid unnecessary duplication.
Unit (LDC8) Press and finish garments following laundry
In this Unit, your role may involve:
• pressing garments and items on rotary presses, scissor presses, iron and rotary iron
• inspecting pressed garments and items for quality
As a competent person, you must:
• make sure that equipment is safe and ready to use
• select thermostat settings
• press garments to the finishing specification
• inspect and identify garments to ensure that they are pressed to company standards, ie
stains, repairs, creasing, shrinkage, etc
• identify any that are not satisfactory
• identify items that are not satisfactory and direct them to the appropriate locations
Key areas of knowledge and understanding
This Unit will help you to develop the following key areas of knowledge and
understanding:
• How to record throughput.
• What services are required to make machines work.
• How to identify and take action if safety mechanisms malfunction.
• What the effects are of moisture in finishing.
• How to interpret care labels.
• Correct steam pressures.
• Common faults and how to deal with them.
• How different textiles respond to heat and pressure.
• How to interpret the finishing specification.
• What are unacceptable levels of moisture retention.
GC8N 22 — Laundry Operations Level 2
7.1