NZQA registered unit standard
7018 version 5
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Title
Maintain security and deal with emergencies in recreation facilities
Level
3
Purpose
Credits
3
This unit standard is intended for a person working in a
recreation facility.
People credited with this unit standard are able to describe the
security and emergency needs and procedures of a facility, and
follow established facility security and emergency procedures.
Classification
Recreation and Sport > Recreation and Sport - Core Skills
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
Competence in this unit standard requires knowledge of the hierarchy of controls
outlined in the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 (HSE Act): elimination of
significant hazards; isolation of significant hazards when elimination is not possible; and
minimisation of significant hazards where elimination and isolation are not possible.
2
Definitions
Clearing out refers to the process of ensuring that people have vacated a facility by
checking facility areas and access ways in either an ordinary closing or an emergency.
Facility refers to a workplace where the candidate is working, or the workplace in
which their training placement is occurring, and may include but is not limited to –
fitness centre, recreation centre, aquatic centre, indoor stadium, outdoor sports area,
snowsport area, museum, library, theatre, hall, marae, park, reserve, information centre,
education centre, or café. The facility must be one that conforms to the HSE Act and
the Building Act 2004.
Opening and closing, in reference to a facility, refer respectively to the process of
preparing a facility for business operation at the start of a business period and closing it
down and ensuring that it is secure at the end of a business period.
Organisational requirements refer to the organisation’s policies and procedures and
include compliance with any applicable legislation, standards, and codes.
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Describe the security and emergency needs and procedures of a facility.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Threats to staff, users, equipment, property, and security of a recreation facility are
identified.
Range
1.2
Daily management procedures and countermeasures for the identified threats are
described.
Range
1.3
threats may include but are not limited to – fire, civil emergency,
assault, harassment, privacy invasion, accusations of inappropriate
behaviour, inappropriate behaviour, theft, incidental damage, break
in, malicious damage.
procedures and countermeasures may include but are not limited to
– facility design including egress, emergency procedures, access
control (such as member identification, visitor sign-in, entry
instructions, internal locking), supervision, public address systems,
signage, sprinkler systems, wardens, storage provision, access
control, signage, supervision, cash handling and storage, access
control (business hours and after hours), key holding systems,
opening and locking up procedures, alarm and surveillance systems.
Description of facility opening and closing procedures aligns with facility security
standards.
Range
procedures may include but are not limited to – physical access,
alarm systems, electrical systems (such as lighting, heating,
ventilation, audio-visual), reception systems, cash-handling (on
premises), staffing (presence, responsibilities), clearing out.
Outcome 2
Follow established facility security and emergency procedures.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Facility procedures and guidelines for dealing with and reporting security related
incidents are identified in accordance with organisational requirements.
Range
incident types – facility security, theft, assault, harassment, client
and/or staff complaints, security equipment and/or system damage
or failure (such as lock, alarms, keys lost or taken), obscene and/or
threatening behaviours including phone calls.
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2.2
Facility emergency procedures for evacuation are followed in accordance with
organisational requirements.
Range
2.3
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staff assignments, sequence of areas, instructions to persons, exit
routes (main, alternative), assembly points.
Procedures for communicating with local emergency services are followed in
terms of the type of service and their information requirements.
services include – fire, ambulance, police, electrical contractor,
plumbing contractor, telecommunications contractor;
information – phone numbers, information required by emergency
service (such as type of emergency, cause, number of people
involved, injuries, address, street access).
Range
Planned review date
31 December 2012
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
27 June 1996
31 December 2012
Revision
2
22 February 2000
31 December 2012
Review
3
22 January 2002
31 December 2012
Review
4
12 February 2010
31 December 2012
Rollover and
Revision
5
20 May 2011
N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0099
This CMR 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.
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NZQA registered unit standard
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Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMRs). The
CMR 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 Skills Active Aotearoa Limited info@skillsactive.org.nz if you wish to
suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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