NZQA registered unit standard
20874 version 2
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Title
Demonstrate knowledge of health and fitness for infrastructure
works personnel
Level
3
Credits
7
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify
effects of infrastructure works site environments on personal
health and fitness and their means of control; explain how
personal health and hygiene influence wellbeing; describe
nutrition and hydration requirements for infrastructure works
personnel; describe the prevention and control of substance
use on infrastructure works sites; and describe symptoms,
causes, and effects of fatigue and stress on infrastructure
works personnel, and explain ways to reduce them.
Classification
Infrastructure Works > Infrastructure Works Health, Safety, and
Environment
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
References relevant to this unit standard include:
Health and Safety in Employment Regulations 1995;
Healthy Work: Managing Stress in the Workplace, Department of Labour, 2003,
available at www.workinfo.govt.nz;
Food & Nutrition Guidelines for Healthy Adults, Ministry of Health, 2003, available at
www.moh.govt.nz.
2
Assessment against this unit standard may take place in a workplace and/or provider
environment.
3
Department of Labour definitions of fatigue and stress are available in booklets such
as Healthy Work: Managing Stress in the Workplace, or in other publications
available from the Occupational Safety and Health Service.
4
Definition
Infrastructure works site refers to a site with activity relating to the construction,
testing, and maintenance of infrastructure assets such as roads, passenger transport
facilities, and public utilities.
Infrastructure ITO
SSB Code 101813
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Identify effects of infrastructure works site environments on personal health and fitness
and their means of control.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Effects of working in an outdoor environment are identified.
Range
1.2
Effects of infrastructure works activities and work conditions on personal health
and fitness are identified.
Range
1.3
examples of infrastructure works activities and conditions are –
working in water, handling materials, constant vibration, high noise
levels.
Effects of infrastructure works site facilities on personal health and fitness are
identified.
Range
1.4
includes but is not limited to the effects of – sun, wind, high
temperature, low temperature, rain, dust, insects, changing light
conditions.
includes but is not limited to – water supply, toilet.
Means of control and hierarchy of controls for effects of outdoor and
infrastructure works site environments are identified.
Range
environments may include – sun, wind, high temperature, low
temperature, rain, dust, insects, changing light conditions;
evidence is required of controls for four environments.
Outcome 2
Explain how personal health and hygiene influence wellbeing.
Evidence requirements
2.1
How good hygiene limits the spread of disease and maintains personal health
and wellbeing is explained.
Range
2.2
includes but is not limited to – hand washing, food, drink, open
wounds, skin disorders, respiratory illness.
Effects of prescription medications on wellbeing are explained.
Range
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effects include but are not limited to – drowsiness, lightheadedness, reaction speed, judgement, vision.
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How medical conditions affect wellbeing is explained.
Range
medical conditions include but are not limited to – high blood
pressure, diabetes, epilepsy, viruses, communicable diseases.
Outcome 3
Describe nutrition and hydration requirements for infrastructure works personnel.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Principles of nutrition for good health are explained in accordance with Food &
Nutrition Guidelines for Healthy Adults.
3.2
Nutritional requirements which contribute to the health of infrastructure works
personnel are identified and explained in terms of individual needs.
Range
3.3
Avoiding dehydration is described in terms of factors to be considered and ways
of controlling their effect.
Range
3.4
factors – natural environment, controlled atmosphere, clothing,
equipment, amount of physical exertion;
controls – type of fluid, timing of fluid intake, personal protective
equipment.
Observable symptoms of dehydration are identified and described.
Range
3.5
individual – size, activity level, lifestyle, energy balance, age,
gender, growth phase.
at least three.
Effective rehydration is explained.
Range
includes – frequency of intake, effect of liquids and salt on fluid
replacement;
liquids – water, fruit juice, soft drinks, alcohol, caffeine.
Outcome 4
Describe the prevention and control of substance use on infrastructure works sites.
Evidence requirements
4.1
Need for prevention and control is described in terms of adverse effects of
substances on individuals and infrastructure works sites.
Range
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substance includes but is not limited to – alcohol, hallucinogens,
marijuana, prescription drugs, solvents, tobacco;
three individual effects, three work site effects.
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4.2
Substance use is described in terms of workplace policies and legislative
restrictions.
4.3
Substance use is described in terms of effective control of abuse.
Range
control – identifying problem, seeking information, referral,
treatment.
Outcome 5
Describe symptoms, causes, and effects of fatigue and stress on infrastructure works
personnel, and explain ways to reduce them.
Evidence requirements
5.1
Descriptions of fatigue and stress are consistent with Department of Labour
definitions.
5.2
Fatigue and stress are described in terms of symptoms.
Range
5.3
Causes of fatigue and stress are outlined.
Range
5.4
effects include but are not limited to – physical wellbeing, mood,
motivation, family relationships, social relationships, work
relationships, work performance, site safety.
Personal means of reducing effects of fatigue and stress are explained.
Range
5.6
fatigue – three personal, three environmental;
stress – two personal, three job related.
Adverse effects of fatigue and stress on self and others are explained.
Range
5.5
three of each.
includes but is not limited to – nutrition, hydration, work hours,
rest, fitness for task, humour.
Ergonomic means of reducing effects of fatigue and stress are explained.
Range
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includes but is not limited to – variety, correct equipment, body
stance, work method, work pace, warmup.
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Planned review date
20874 version 2
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31 December 2015
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
27 October 2004
N/A
Review
2
18 February 2011
N/A
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0101
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (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.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Consent 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 Infrastructure ITO askus@infratrain.co.nz if you wish to suggest changes to
the content of this unit standard.
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