Multi-Skill Assistant Duties
Multi-Skill Assistant Duties
This domain covers the assistant's role in a technical workplace: receiving work instructions, preparing tools and materials, supporting skilled technicians, housekeeping, records, and escalation. It tests judgement about scope and safe handover.
Core rules
- Work from an approved work order or verbal instruction confirmed with the supervisor; ask when the task, location, or isolation point is unclear.
- Before work, confirm tools, consumables, access, PPE, and permit requirements; after work, account for tools and restore the area.
- Assist within training and authority. Do not energise, test, or repair equipment that requires a certified person.
- Record readings, material issued, work completed, and deviations; hand over unfinished work with a clear status note.
- Follow 5S: sort, set in order, shine, standardise, sustain.
Worked example
A technician asks you to replace a blown fuse in a live distribution board because production is waiting. The correct response is to stop: do not open or touch a live panel. Isolate the supply, lock and tag it, verify dead with an approved tester, replace the fuse with the correct rating and type, then remove the lock only after the area is safe. Report the blown fuse and any sign of overload to the supervisor. Speed does not override isolation.
Traps
Accepting an unsafe shortcut to avoid downtime; using a higher-rated fuse for now; leaving the work area without a handover; and recording a reading from memory rather than the instrument.