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HRT103
70 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Provide work site support
Most work in these sectors requires work at a site removed from the depot. Workers
are involved in loading and unloading vehicles with materials, tools and equipment,
preparing safety barriers and cleaning up after the days work is completed. The work is
likely to be under direct supervision with regular checking. Competency involves the
application of knowledge and skills to a limited range of tasks. There is a specified range
of contexts where the choice of actions required is quite clear.
HRT104
10 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Provide turf care
This unit applies to the basic maintenance of grassed areas in places such as private
residences, roadside verges, commercial properties, public parks and recreational areas
and at sporting facilities. The work is likely to be under direct supervision with regular
checking. Competency involves the application of knowledge and skills to a limited
range of lawn maintenance tasks. There is a specified range of duties and contexts
where the choice of actions required is made quite clear by supervisors.
HRT105
Pick a crop
10 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Fruit, vegetable and flower picking byhand is a task regularly undertaken by
horticultural workers who may be seasonal and unskilled. This unit describes the basic
manual crop picking, sorting and/or grading in the field priorto delivery to packing shed.
The work also includes the transport of the crop to a packing shed and some basic
grading or sorting. In some enterprises and for some crops machinery such as power
ladders, tractors, trailers and forklifts may accompany those involved in the picking
process. Crop picking is likely to be under direct supervision with regular checking.
Competency involves the application of knowledge and skills to a limited range of crop
picking tasks and roles. Crop picking is undertaken within established routines using
predictable methods and procedures. Responsibility for elements may fall to individuals
or teams of pickers.
HRT106
10 nominal Hours. Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Provide planted area care
This unit describes the work associated with providing a range of maintenance
activities to planted areas such as garden beds, landscape works and tree plantings. The
work is likely to be under direct supervision with regular checking. Competency involves
the application of knowledge and skills to a limited range of tree maintenance tasks.
There is a specified range of duties where the choice of actions required for tree
maintenance is quite clearly described by the supervisor.
HRT107
10 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Provide nursery plant care
This unit describes basic plant maintenance duties in either a retail or production
nursery. It refers generally to the maintenance of containerised plants but may include
other nursery plant stock. The work is likely to be under direct supervision with regular
checking. Competency involves the application of knowledge and skills to a limited
range of plant maintenance tasks. There is a specified range of duties and contexts
where the choice of actions required is made quite clear by the supervisor.
HRT108
10 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Provide nursery support
This unit describes the supporting role workers provide in a production or retail nursery
by receiving and storing goods and materials and maintaining relevant associated
records. The work is likely to be under direct supervision with regular checking.
Competency involves the application of knowledge and skills to a limited range of
handling tasks. There is a specified range of contexts and duties where the choice of
actions required is made quite clear by the supervisor.
HRT109
10 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Maintain the worlc: environment
This unit covers the daily routine expected of workers to keep a workplace, including
workshops, depots, tool sheds, and planted areas, tidy and safely maintained. The work
is likely to be under direct supervision with regular checking. Competency involves the
application of knowledge and skills to a limited range of maintenance tasks and roles.
Reporting and recording is undertaken within established routines using predictable
methods and procedures. There is a specified range of duties and contexts where the
choice of actions required is made quite clear by the supervisor.
HRT110
10 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Display products
This unit describes the basic duties of workers in nurseries, particularly retail outlets, to
display nursery products and stock on shelves orfloor displays. The work is likely to be
under direct supervision with regular checking. Competency involves the application of
knowledge and skills to a limited range of dis play tasks. There is a specified range of
contexts and duties where the choice of actions required is made quite clear by the
supervisor.
HRT111
10 nominal Hours. Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Provide postharvest care
This unit describes basic post-harvest processing duties. The work is likely to be under
direct supervision with regular checking. Competency involves the application of
knowledge and skills to a limited range of postharvest processing tasks. There is a
specified range of contexts and duties where the choice of actions required is made
quite clear by the supervisor.
HRT112
10 nominal Hours. Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Provide propagation support
This unit describes the assistance that is provided by workers to plant propagators in
the production nursery sector. The work is likely to be under direct supervision with
regular checking. Competency involves the application of knowledge and skills to a
limited range oftasks. There is a specified range of contexts where the choice of
actions required is made quite clear by the supervisor or plant propagator.
HRT113
10 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Operate ride-on vehicles
This unit covers the basic skills and knowledge required to operate a range of ride-on
mowers and small ride-on vehicles (usually 16 hp or less). Work is likely to be under
direct supervision with regular checking. Competency involves the application of
knowledge and skills to a limited range of tasks and roles with ride-on vehicles.
Reporting is undertaken within established routines using methods and procedures that
are predictable. This is equivalentto rural generic unitAG2100EO Operate ride-on farm
vehicles.
HRT114
10 nominal hours. Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & (l;]jectives
Carry out basic drying operations
This unit covers the work associated with drying offruit, vegetables, flowers and
foliage products. Work is likely to be under direct supervision with regular checking.
Competency involves the application of knowledge and skills to a limited range of drying
tasks and roles. Reporting is undertaken within established routines using predictable
methods and procedures.
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