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Maintain and service a shearing handpiece, and check and evaluate the
shearing plant
Level
3
Credits
10
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify worn and faulty
handpiece components, and install minor repair kit components; and check
and evaluate the shearing plant, and notify maintenance requirements.
Subfield
Wool Harvesting
Domain
Shearing
Status
Registered
Status date
21 August 2009
Date version published
21 August 2009
Planned review date
31 December 2014
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA, industry
and teaching professional in the same field from another
provider.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Primary Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0052
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
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The following documents provide both a source of the national standard as stated in
the performance criteria, and useful background information relating to this unit
standard –
Shearing Handbook (Christchurch: Tectra Ltd, 2007). ISBN 0-9582522-2-X.
Available from Tectra Ltd., PO Box 7327, Sydenham, Christchurch 8240.
Best practice guideline for the New Zealand shearing industry: A guide for
workplaces (Wellington: Department of Labour, 2008), available from
http://www.dol.govt.nz.
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Definitions
On-farm procedures – the verbal and written instructions to staff on procedures for
notification of shearing plant maintenance requirements.
Contractor’s policy – the verbal and written requirements for notification of shearing
plant maintenance requirements.
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Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes but is not limited to the Health and
Safety in Employment Act 1992, and its subsequent amendments.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Identify worn and faulty handpiece components, and install minor repair kit components.
Performance criteria
1.1
A handpiece is stripped and cleaned in accordance with manufacturer’s
specifications.
1.2
Worn and faulty handpiece components are identified in accordance with the
Shearing Handbook, and manufacturer’s specifications.
1.3
Faulty comb beds are identified in accordance with the Shearing Handbook,
and manufacturer’s specifications.
Element 2
Check and evaluate the shearing plant, and notify maintenance requirements.
Performance criteria
2.1
Worn and faulty parts of the shearing plant are identified and described in terms
of their effects on safety and performance.
Range
2.2
The shearing plant is run and checked prior to use, to determine safe
operational performance.
Range
2.3
hook and eye, elbow cogs, cones, spring, elbow leathers.
drive cones, guts, guards, noise, spline drive.
Maintenance requirements of the shearing plant are notified to the shed owner
in accordance with on-farm procedures or contractor’s policy.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated
authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against
unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
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Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register
credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations
wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for
tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Primary Industry Training Organisation standards@primaryito.ac.nz if
you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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