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Fabricate yacht rigging
Level
4
Credits
10
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: confirm specification for
rigging fabrication; prepare for fabrication of rigging; and fabricate rigging.
Subfield
Boating Industries
Domain
Boatbuilding
Status
Registered
Status date
21 November 2008
Date version published
21 November 2008
Planned review date
31 December 2013
Entry information
Prerequisite: Unit 18171, Demonstrate knowledge of
spars and rigging, or demonstrate equivalent knowledge
and skills.
Replacement information
This unit standard, unit standard 25119, unit standard
25121, unit standard 25122, and unit standard 25123
replaced unit standard 9951 and unit standard 9952.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and
industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Boating Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0136
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
All required equipment must be set up, started up, operated, and shut down in
accordance with company procedures.
2
All work practices must meet recognised codes of practice and documented worksite
health and safety procedures (where these exceed code) for personal, product, and
worksite health and safety, and must meet the obligations required under the Health
and Safety in Employment Act 1992, and subsequent and delegated legislation.
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All work practices must meet recognised codes of practice and documented worksite
environmental procedures (where these exceed code) for personal, product, and
worksite environmental matters, and must meet the obligations required under the
Resource Management Act 1991, and subsequent and delegated legislation.
4
All work practices must meet documented worksite quality management
requirements. These include documentation of activities, events, and decisions.
5
Definitions
Company procedures, documented or accepted procedures in the workplace where
the unit standard is being assessed.
Job requirements, requirements that may or may not be specified but require correct
choices to achieve including: following safety and workplace procedures and meeting
generally accepted trade practice standards.
Manufacturer’s specifications, written specifications or instructions that determine
how equipment should be installed or used.
Job specifications, either written or verbal definition of the job used for assessment.
Fabrication, cutting and terminating wire, rope or aramid rigging types. May include
talurit, swage, splice or a proprietary system.
6
This unit standard may apply to wire, rod, aramid, and rope rigging. Evidence is
required for running and standing rigging.
7
This unit standard is intended to be assessed against on-job over a range of different
rigging fabrication job types and sizes.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Confirm specification for rigging fabrication.
Performance criteria
1.1
Rigging type is confirmed and selected in accordance with job specifications.
1.2
Rigging dimensions are confirmed in accordance with job specifications.
1.3
Termination types are confirmed in accordance with job specifications.
Element 2
Prepare for fabrication of rigging.
Performance criteria
2.1
Fabrication equipment is confirmed as being in working order in accordance
with company procedures.
2.2
Safety equipment is complete, in working order, matches the requirements of
the task, and is used in accordance with job requirements.
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Rigging is prepared in accordance with manufacturer’s specifications and
company procedures.
Element 3
Fabricate rigging.
Performance criteria
3.1
Rigging is fabricated in accordance with manufacturer’s specifications and
company procedures.
3.2
Safety equipment is used in accordance with company procedures.
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.
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 Boating Industry Training Organisation training@bia.org.nz if you wish
to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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