No person, other than a journeyman or an apprentice, may be employed on work classified at Group Z without the prior permission of the Council.
The following operations in the manufacture and/or remanufacture of electric cable and/or electrical conductors (excluding busbars):
GROUP Z
| 1. | Plant maintenance and/or installation and/or tool-room work, namely fitting, electrician’s work, tool and jig making, plating and welding (n.e.s.). |
GROUP Y
| 1. | Crane driving (n.e.s.). |
| 2. | Supervisory work (other than group leaders). |
GROUP IX
| 1. | Group leader supervising operations in Wage Groups V and VI. |
GROUP VIII
GROUP VII
GROUP VI
| 1. | Operating catenary or vertical continuous vulcanising extrusion line. |
| 2. | Operating composite armouring machine with bobbins over 410 mm in diameter. |
| 3. | Operating extrusion machine exceeding 120 mm diameter and/or horizontal CV line. |
| 4. | Operating laying-up machines on paper insulated cables-shaped conductors-bobbins over one meter in diameter. |
| 5. | Operating lead extruder. |
GROUP V
| 1. | Attending heat treatment and/or vulcanising and/or drying plant. |
| 2. | Cutting and/or screwing of piping and/or conduit. |
| 3. | Group leader supervising operations in Wage Group IV. |
| 4. | Operating composite armouring machine up to and including 410 mm dia¬meter. |
| 5. | Operating extrusion machine up to and including 120 mm diameter. |
| 6. | Operating hand portable and/or pedestal grinding machine (where the operator is not required to grind to marks and/or gauges and/or sizes and/or templates). |
| 7. | Operating internal mixer, eg. Banbury type. |
| 8. | Operating laying-up telephone cables machine more than 102 bobbins. |
| 9. | Operating rod break-down machine (inlet size 6 mm and above). |
| 10. | Operating stranding machine using over 22 bobbins. |
| 11. | Operating thermoplastic compounding and granulating plant. |
| 12. | Polishing and cleaning of wire-drawing dies (excluding setting up and adjusting). |
GROUP IV
| 1. | Attending cable impregnating plant. |
| 3. | Crane driving (n.e.s.) power-operated jib cranes and/or cab-operated overhead cranes and/or floor-operated power cranes, powered in all three directions and controlled by one man so employed, and confined to the movement of drums and cablemaking materials. |
| 4. | Group leader supervising operations in Wage Groups I to III. |
| 5. | Mill mixing (open roll type). |
| 6. | Operating armouring machine (n.e.s.). |
| 7. | Operating calendering machine. |
| 8. | Operating laying-up machines (shaped conductors) (n.e.s.). |
| 9. | Operating laying-up machine, more than seven circular cores (not more than 61 bobbins). |
| 10. | Operating laying-up machine on paper insulated cables-shaped conductors-bobbins one meter in diameter and smaller. |
| 11. | Operating laying-up telephone cables machine, up to and including 102 bobbins. |
| 12. | Operating longitudinal covering machine. |
| 13. | Operating paper impregnating machine. |
| 14. | Operating paper lapping machine (over 18 papers). |
| 15. | Operating stranding machine with more than seven bobbins and up to and including 22 bobbins. |
| 16. | Operating wire-drawing machine. |
| 17. | Winding, measuring, cutting and drumming cables. |
GROUP III
| 1. | Application of anti-corrosive and/or anti-fouling and/or protective coatings. |
| 2. | Assembling of cable drums. |
| 3. | Assistant to operator of composite armouring machine, at whose direction he is responsible for changing tapes and/or jutes and filling compound pots. |
| 4. | Assistant to continuous vulcanising extrusion line operator, at whose direction he is responsible for controlling water pressure and opening and shutting splice box. |
| 5. | Assistant to operator of lead extrusion machine, at whose direction he is responsible for flaking-filling containers and monitoring conditions of cable entering lead extruder. |
| 6. | Bituminising steel wire and/or tape and/or paper and/or jute and/or textiles. |
| 7. | Loading of insulation and/or sheathing materials into warming mill and unloading of same. |
| 8. | Mass-measuring of materials prior to the mixing process. |
| 9. | Operating braiding machine. |
| 10. | Operating bunching machine. |
| 11. | Operating hot dip and/or electrolytic tinning plant (excluding preparation and/or testing of chemicals). |
| 12. | Operating incinerators. |
| 13. | Operating laying-up machine, up to and including seven circular cores. |
| 14. | Operating sieving and/or straining machine. |
| 15. | Operating slitting machine for insulating, binding or screening materials. |
| 16. | Operating stranding machine with seven and less bobbins. |
| 17. | Operating stripping machine. |
| 18. | Packing and/or unpacking vulcanising trays and/or cylinders, including spark testing and repairing. |
| 19. | Preparing ends of insulated conductors and/or cables for testing. |
| 20. | Repetition cutting and/or planing and/or drilling of material for cable drums to stops and/or jigs. |
| 21. | Vertical and/or horizontal taping and/or lapping, up to and including 18 tapes and/or papers. |
| 22. | Winding and/or spark testing and/or repairing and/or measuring and/or marking of cores. |
GROUP II
| 1. | Assistants on machines with crews of more than one, who help on the machine as directed by the machine operator, and who are in attendance during machine running time, and who are engaged in loading and unloading the machine. |
| 3. | Lagging of wooden drums. |
| 4. | Length measuring, winding and joining copper, aluminium, galvanised steel wire and/or strip. |
| 5. | Operating granulating machine. |
| 6. | Operating marking machine for single cores. |
| 7. | Operating twinning and/or quadding machine for control and/or telephone cables. |
| 9. | Stencil painting on drums. |
| 11. | Wrapping, packing and labelling of finished materials. |
GROUP I
| 4. | Spraying and/or applying preservative coating to drums. |
