Produce furniture production specifications
Overview
This standard covers the skills and knowledge required to produce furniture production specifications. This involves producing a specification for a product, ensuring that the specification meets a
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
produce a specification for the product or process that meets the
requirements of the client
incorporate all necessary details into the specification
confirm specifications are capable of being implemented
confirm specifications comply with all relevant regulations and
guidelines
- agree specifications with clients at appropriate points in the
design process
- provide a suitable rationale for any requirements that cannot be
achieved or any changes to specifications
- produce specifications in agreed formats with the necessary
supporting documents
- record specifications in the appropriate information systems
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
design principles and processes that apply to the furniture items
being produced
- general and furniture item-specific principles and processes for
furniture production that apply and how they affect the details to
be included in the specification
- health and safety legislation, regulations and safe working
practices and procedures that you are required to build into
specifications, and where to find out about relevant risk
assessment details and risk control strategies that have been set
by your organisation
- legislative and regulatory frameworks that govern furniture
production, including the need for compliance with relevant
national and international furniture standards
- organisational procedures and systems for creating,
disseminating, storing and maintaining furniture specifications
- organisational procedures in relation to patents, copyright, and
intellectual property issues
- information included in furniture specifications for different items
of furniture, the conventions, units of measurement and terms
used and preferred organisational formats