Simulated workplaceCAQA Bloom and Stem Florists is a fictional business created by CAQA for training and assessment. It is not a real company and no person, client or record here is real.About this simulation
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Simulated workplace
Department

Design and Production

The workroom team that constructs hand-tied, wired and base medium floristry products in volume for corporate accounts, funerals, online orders and events, maintains tools and equipment, and keeps mechanics, proportion and finish consistent across every site.

Head Designer7 staff
Home/Departments/Design and Production
Responsibilities

What the team is accountable for

  • Construct products to the design standards guide and the order specification
  • Maintain knives, secateurs, wire cutters and foam saws
  • Prepare wired work, base medium arrangements and tributes
  • Check finished work against the order before it leaves the bench
  • Train junior designers and casual staff in construction techniques
Performance measures

How we know it is working

0.9% of orders
Remakes
210 products a day in peak
Bench output
100%
Tool checks completed
People

Who works here

CB

Callum Brennan

Head Designer

Sets the design standards, runs the Cremorne workroom benches and trains every new designer, having joined as an apprentice in 2011.

DN

Dylan Nguyen

Floral Designer

Constructs hand-tied and wired work for corporate and funeral orders in the Cremorne workroom and mentors casual staff in peak season.