Appraiser, clothing

Product graders and testers (excluding foods and beverages) inspect, test, sort, sample and weigh raw materials, non-food manufactured products and their parts after production or before sale to ensure conformity with quality standards and to detect defects and deviations from specifications; they test for durability and strength, and sort and grade manufactured articles.

• inspecting and testing products, parts and materials for conformity with specifications and standards;
• sorting and grading natural textile fibres intended for spinning and twisting;
• removing or rejecting products, materials and equipment that do not meet specifications and standards;
• analysing and interpreting drawings, data, manuals and other materials to determine inspection and testing specifications and procedures;
• notifying supervisors and other personnel of production problems and helping to identify and resolve them;
• recording inspection or test data such as weight, temperature, moisture content and other indicators, and the quantity of products inspected and graded;
• marking products with grades and status – accepted or rejected;
• measuring the dimensions of products using rules, compasses, calipers or micrometers;
• analysing test data and making the necessary calculations to determine accurate results.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Inspector, product quality (excluding foods and beverages)
• Grader, products (excluding foods and beverages)
• Controller, product quality (excluding foods and beverages)