People credited with this unit standard are able to: manage safety and hazards when feeding and tailing out a planer; demonstrate knowledge of the operation and operating principles of a planer; feed timber into a planer; out-feed planed timber; monitor planer performance; and record downtime, and report machinery breakages.
This unit standard includes the feeding of sawn or planed timber (feedstock) into a planing machine, and the out-feeding of planed timber.
