For the purpose of this paragraph and the Schedule—

logging

means the activities carried out normally in a forest in the course of procuring, preparing and removing logs, poles and other forest produce from the places where they have been grown to a point where they are marshalled for shipping by sea or for conversion to products of various kinds in plants or factories;

logging crew hand

means a person with the necessary skill engaged to perform various tasks, other than operate mobile plant, directly connected with the felling of trees for the production of logs etc and preparation, extraction and transport of logs, poles or the like, in the forest;

log truck driver

means a suitably skilled person in possession of appropriate driving licence, engaged to drive truck and trailer combinations specifically designed for the carriage of logs or poles and whose duties include responsibility for the efficient and safe operation and the correct loading and discharge of the vehicles, their proper care and maintenance and the keeping of simple records as required by the employer;

mobile plant and equipment

means a plant which is self-propelled or towed and performs its functions while moving on wheel or tracks;

mobile plant and equipment operator

means a person with the necessary skill engaged to operate mobile plant connected with the extraction and transport of logs, poles and the like in the forest whose duties include the responsibility for the correct, efficient and safe operation of the machine, its proper care and maintenance and the keeping of simple records as required by the employer;

other worker

means any person engaged to perform tasks associated with logging operators; and

truck driver

means a skilled person engaged to drive a truck, the carrying capacity of which is over 5,100kg used for carrying logs or poles or the like.

For the purpose of this paragraph and the Schedule—

mobile plant and equipment

means a plant, which is self-propelled, carried or towed and performs its functions while moving on wheels or tracks while carried;

mobile equipment and plant operator

means a person with the necessary skill engaged to operate mobile plant used primarily for the construction and maintenance of roads and whose duties include responsibility for correct, efficient and safe operation of the machine, its proper care and maintenance and the keeping of simple records as required by the employer;

other worker

means any person engaged to perform tasks associated with the construction or maintenance of roads, which are described above;

road construction work

means the activities carried on in the course of constructing, repairing and maintaining access roads, usually of a standard suitable for the passage of heavy trucks and similar vehicles used primarily to facilitate the movement of goods of any description required in the course of removing and the manufacture of any forest produce; and

truck driver

means a suitably skilled person in possession of the appropriate driving licence engaged to drive trucks of any size over 5,100 kg carrying capacity used for the carriage of goods or gravel, stone, soil, clay, sand or the like whose duties include responsibility for the efficient and safe operation and the correct loading and discharge of the vehicle, its proper care and maintenance and the keeping of simple records as required by the employer.

For the purpose of this paragraph and the Schedule—

gravel pit

means an area or situation where gravel, sand, stone or similar materials is extracted or crushed and or screened and otherwise processed or prepared;

mobile plant and equipment

means a plant, which is self-propelled, carried or towed and performs its functions while moving on wheels or tracks while carried;

mobile equipment and plant operator

means a person with the necessary skill engaged to operate mobile plant used primarily in connection with the extraction, handling and transport of gravel, sand, stone, soil, clay or whose duties include responsibility for the correct, efficient and safe operation of the machine, its proper care and maintenance and the keeping of simple records as required by the employer;

other worker

means any person engaged to perform tasks associated with the operation or quarry or gravel pit, which is not described above;

quarry

means an area or situation where rock of similar material is quarried or crushed and/or screened and otherwise processed or prepared;

spaller

means a person with the necessary skill engaged to manually break stone;

stationary plant

means plant used in, or in connection with a quarry or gravel pit and which is either fixed or mounted on wheels but which is not self-propelled and which performs its function while stationary and includes, portable or hand tools which are operated while connected to the stationary plant with hoses, cable or the like; and

stationary plant operator

means a person with the necessary skill engaged to operate mobile plant used primarily in connection with the extraction, transport, crushing, grading or screening of gravel, sand, stone or broken stone, soil, clay or whose duties include responsibility for the correct, efficient and safe operation of the machine, its proper care and maintenance and the keeping of simple records as required by the employer.

For the purpose of this paragraph and the Schedule—

log yard

means any area or situation used primarily for the receipt, storage, sorting and preparation of logs immediately before their entry to a sawmill;

other worker

means any person engaged to perform tasks in a log yard, sawmill or sawshop, which are not described;

saw doctor

means any person who has usually served as an apprentice in the maintenance and proper storage of woodcutting saws and who is competent in carrying out all aspects of the operation, repair and maintenance of woodcutting saw blades;

sawmill

means any number of combinations of inter-related machines housed in one building which are used to convert logs to cants, flitches, slabs, scantling boards and the like by means of sawing them either lengthwise

or crosswise and any system or conveyors used to move logs or timber to, from, round or between any of these machines but exclude any conveyors, trolleys, lines and skids used primarily for the dripping in liquid or sorting of sawn timber emerging from the sawmill;

sawmill hands

means a person with the necessary skill engaged to perform various tasks (other than the operation of sawmill plant or assisting in the operation of saws used primarily to saw logs, cants, flitches, slabs or lengthwise) directly connected with the handling, movement or conversion of logs, cants, flitches, slabs, scantling, boards or within the log yard or sawmill;

For the purpose of this paragraph and the Schedule—

mobile plant and equipment

means plant or equipment which is self-propelled or towed and performs its functions while moving on wheels or tracks or while carried;

mobile plant and equipment operator

means a person with the necessary skill engaged to operate mobile plant and equipment used for the movement or handling of sawn timber in a timber yard and whose duties include responsibility for the correct, efficient and safe operation of the machine, its proper care and maintenance and keeping of simple records as required by the employer;

other worker

means any person engaged to perform any tasks in or about a timber yard which are not described;

skill

means the ability to accurately determine and record the measurement of sawn timber in the recognised unit of measurement at a speed normally required in the industry, the ability to accurately determine the quality of sawn timber in accordance with the recognised grading rules at a speed normally required in the industry, a sound practical knowledge of the methods used to sort, handle and package sawn timber;

tallyman

means a person with the necessary skill engaged to measure and/or grade sawn timber in a timber yard;

timber yard

means an area or situation in which sorting, grading, tallying, storage, air-drying, packaging, marking or the preparation for sale or distribution of sawn timber is carried out;

timber yard man

means a person with the necessary skill engaged to perform various tasks, other than tallyman or mobile plant or equipment operator, directly connected with the sorting, grading, tallying, handling, moving, packaging or marking of sawn timber in a timber yard.

For the purpose of this paragraph and the Schedule—

machinist

means a person with the necessary skill engaged to take charge of and/or operate with the assistance, maintenance of any machine in a planer mill used primarily to plane, gauge or mould sawn timber lengthwise;

other worker

means a person engaged to perform tasks in or adjacent to planer mill, which are not described;

planer mill hand

means a person with the necessary skill engaged to perform tasks in a planer mill, other than that of a machinist, directly connected with the movement or handling of sawn, slashed and dressed timber;

skill

means the ability to safely and efficiently operate the machine under his or her control and to give it proper care and maintenance, the ability to set up the machine under his or her control and to prepare, sharpen the knives or cutting tools

used on it, the ability to assess the quality of sawn timber and to determine the best method of machining it and the ability to measure sawn timber and keep simple records as required by the employer.

For the purpose of this paragraph and the Schedule—

other worker

means a person engaged to perform tasks in or adjacent to a pressure treatment plant, which are not described;

pressure treatment plant

means a building or area containing plant and equipment designed to impregnate timber with preservative chemicals by use of pressure;

treatment plant hand

means a person engaged to perform tasks, other than treatment plant operator, directly connected with the handling, treating or movement of timber in or adjacent to the pressure treatment plant;

treatment plant operator

means a person with the necessary skill engaged to take charge of the plant and with responsibility for the control of the treating process which includes the safe and efficient operation of the plant, the mixing of chemicals, the keeping of records, the preparation of timber for treatment and the loading and discharge of the plant.

For the purpose of this paragraph and the Schedule—

other worker

means a person engaged to perform tasks in or adjacent to a pressure treatment plant which are not described;

pressure treatment plant

means a building or area containing plant and equipment designed to impregnate timber with preservative chemicals by use of pressure;

treatment plant hand

means a person engaged to perform tasks, other than treatment plant operator, directly connected with the handling, treating or movement of timber in or adjacent to the pressure treatment plant;

treatment plant operator

means a person with the necessary skill engaged to take charge of the plant and with responsibility for the control of the treating process which includes the safe and efficient operation of the plant, the mixing of chemicals, the keeping of records, the preparation of timber for treatment and the loading and discharge of the plant.

For the purpose of this paragraph and the Schedule—

assistant kiln operator

means a person engaged to perform tasks, other than kiln operator directly connected with the handling, drying, checking and movement of timber in or adjacent to the kiln drying plant;

kiln drying plant

means a building or area containing plant and equipment designed to speed up drying of timber by the use of regulated high temperature generated from steam and force air flow provided by special kiln fans;

kiln operator

means a person with the necessary skill engaged to take charge of the kiln drying plant with the responsibility of the kiln drying process which includes the safe and efficient operation of the kiln, the preparation, loading and unloading of the kiln charge, the tracking of the kiln drying process and proper keeping of the kiln charge records;

other worker

means a person engaged to perform tasks in or adjacent to a kiln drying plant which are not described.

For the purpose of this paragraph and the Schedule—

plant and equipment operator

means a person with the necessary skills to take charge and operate any machine, hot-press or lathe used in the veneer mill;

assistant operator

means a person with the necessary skills to perform tasks other than operating machine, hot-press or lathe directly connected to works carried out in the veneer mill;

other worker

means a person engaged to perform tasks in the veneer mill which are not described.

For the purpose of this paragraph and the Schedule—

chip mill operator

means a person with the necessary skills to take charge and operate the de-barker and chipper machines;

chipper hands

means a person with the necessary skills to assist chip mill operators performing tasks such as in-feed and out-feed attendants to conveyor and chip pile attendants ensuring that foreign material or logs below specifications do not enter the chipper to spreading of logs on conveyor avoiding jamming to ensuring chips are piled in accordance with the Occupational Health and Safety regulations etc; and

other worker

means a person engaged to perform tasks in the chip mill which are not described.