Receive, inspect and grade incoming recovered fibre loads

You are a Fibre Yard Operator on day shift.

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What is going on

Three loads from Eastern Waste and Recovery Contractors are due this morning after the night crew held one of their loads at an estimated nine per cent contamination. The first truck is a tipping truck declared as old corrugated containers, the second is baled mixed paper with two broken straps visible, and the third is declared as sorted office paper but the top of the load shows plastic film and food packaging. The weighbridge is working and the superintendent has asked you to inspect each load properly, grade it, record it and hold anything over the limit. The yard is busy with a forklift stacking bales in bay 2.

Sione Tuilagi, Recovered Fibre Superintendent
Subject: Held load from Eastern Waste, need your inspection

The night crew held a load from Eastern Waste at an estimated nine per cent contamination and there are three more loads from the same contractor due this morning. I want you to receive and inspect the incoming loads properly under the receival procedure, grade each one, record the results in the shift log and photograph anything you hold. If a load is over the limit, hold it and call me before you make a decision. Remember the yard rules: high visibility, walkways, and stay out of the tipping bay while a truck is unloading.

Your brief

Receive the three loads in accordance with the Recovered Fibre Receival and Inspection Procedure, inspect and grade each one, decide which loads to accept, hold or reject, record every load and the yard stock in the Production Shift Log, and raise any hazard you find.

Work through it

You do not need to do it all. Doing a few of these will show you what the work is like. Your ticks and notes stay on this device.

Read the Recovered Fibre Receival and Inspection Procedure and list the checks required at weighing, inspection, unloading and storage, and the prohibited items.
Read the Work Health and Safety Policy responsibilities section and the yard safety rules, and describe how you will keep yourself and the drivers safe while the forklift is working.
Inspect the tipping load of old corrugated containers, estimate the contamination using the grading guide and record your decision to accept or hold with reasons.
Inspect the baled mixed paper load, deal with the broken straps safely, and describe where and how the bales will be stacked.
Inspect the declared sorted office paper load, identify the contamination and the mixed grade, and record it as held with photographs and a note for the superintendent.
Create a Production Shift Log record for the fibre yard shift showing loads received, tonnes, any held loads and the closing yard stock by grade.
Complete an Incident, Near Miss and Hazard Report Form for the leaning bale stack in bay 3 or any hazard you observe, and explain who you reported it to.

My notes: what did I enjoy, and what surprised me?

What someone in this role would produce

Inspection record for each of the three loads with accept, hold or reject decisions
Production Shift Log record for the fibre yard
Completed Incident, Near Miss and Hazard Report Form
Short written note to the superintendent on the held load

Printing this is a record of what you explored. It is not a certificate or a qualification.