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Scenario · Pulping, Stock Preparation and Paper Machine

Coordinate the forming fabric change at the October shutdown

You are the Acting Shift Supervisor coordinating a paper machine clothing change.

Intermediate3 to 4 hours7 tasks
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The situation

What has happened

The forming fabric on the paper machine is showing edge wear at the drive side and its change is locked into the 36-hour October shutdown starting 17 October. The new fabric is on site and its serial number must be confirmed. The change must be completed inside ten hours because a press roll change and a dryer hood inspection follow it. The crane and lifting gear need current inspection tags, section drives, showers, stock and vacuum must be isolated and locked, and the dryer hood inspection needs a confined space permit. The crew includes two operators who have never done a fabric change. The Paper Machine Shift Supervisor has asked you to coordinate the whole task.

Your brief. Plan, prepare and direct the forming fabric change in accordance with the Paper Machine Clothing Change Procedure and the Permit to Work and Isolation Policy, with a job safety analysis, permits, isolations, a toolbox talk, a task sequence with times, and complete records in the Permit to Work Register, the Production Shift Log and the Maintenance Work Orders.
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Tasks

Deliverables

  • Isolation, permit and inspection checklist
  • Updated work order WO-26-3290
  • Job safety analysis
  • Permit to Work Register entries
  • Toolbox Talk Record, task sequence and Production Shift Log record

Documents to use

Systems to use

Permit to Work Register

The register of every permit raised for hot work, confined space entry, heights, containment breaks and electrical work, with isolations and status.

Production Shift Log

The shift record for each production area covering tonnes made, downtime, quality results, plant status and handover notes.

Maintenance Work Orders

The record of preventative and breakdown maintenance requests, their priority, planning and completion across the mill.

For trainers and assessors

Units of competency

Current on training.gov.au for the Pulp and Paper Manufacturing Industry Training Package as at 10 September 2026.

PPMPRV301Co-ordinate and direct clothing changes
PPMDEO301Perform dry end operations
PPMWEO201Monitor and control wet end operations
PPMWHS402Identify, assess and control work health and safety risk in own work
PPMPRM201Undertake operator level preventative maintenance

Qualifications

PPM30121Certificate III in Pulp and Paper Operations
PPM40121Certificate IV in Pulp and Paper Operations
Assessor notes

What to look for

Evidence guide

Look for isolations that cover every energy source named in the procedure, a job safety analysis with real controls for suspended loads and cutting, permits that list locks for each entrant, and a task sequence that is achievable inside ten hours. The toolbox talk must give the inexperienced operators defined roles. The return to service checks must precede isolation removal.

The student's evidence summary lists every record they created or changed in the systems named above, their notes and the tasks they ticked. Verify it against the deliverables and your own assessment tool.