TAPPI T1501 PDF

Training standard for paper machine tender

TAPPI T1501 – Training standard for paper machine tender

The purpose of this standard is to provide guidelines for skills and knowledge needed by a paper machinetender, often referred to as the paper machine first hand. The standard will be useful as a measure of the capabilitiesand understanding that a person must have to successfully perform the machine tender function. Within thelimitations described, the incumbent or candidate for this function should have the capability to know, understand,and appropriately utilize all of the standard skill and knowledge functions described. Secondly, as the first standardof this type based on the information sources referenced, this particular standard may serve as a model to see ifsimilar standards would be useful for other pulp and paper mill job classifications.