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Clean stables
Level
2
Credits
2
Purpose
This unit standard is for people who work in a situation where horses are
stabled.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: muck out a stable to
remove all traces of soiled bedding, faeces, and urine, and identify reasons
for maintaining a well banked muck heap and a clean stable; demonstrate
knowledge of stable bedding, and replace and arrange stable bedding; and
clean stable equipment and surrounds.
Subfield
Equine
Domain
Equine Care
Status
Registered
Status date
23 April 2008
Date version published
23 April 2008
Planned review date
31 December 2013
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Primary Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0018
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes but is not limited to the Health and
Safety in Employment Act 1992, and its subsequent amendments.
2
Stable procedures are the documented practices and polices required within a
particular workplace, and do not contravene the Code of Recommendations and
Minimum Standards for the Welfare of Horses (Wellington: Ministry of Agriculture and
Forestry, 1993) or available at http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/animalwelfare/codes/horses/index.htm.
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For this unit standard the practical assessment evidence must be provided in the
context of a commercial business operation under normal working conditions.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Muck out a stable to remove all traces of soiled bedding, faeces, and urine, and identify
reasons for maintaining a well banked muck heap and a clean stable.
Performance criteria
1.1
Removable fittings are identified, moved and temporarily stored out of main
thoroughfare in accordance with stable procedures.
Range
1.2
water buckets, feed bins, miscellaneous horse equipment.
Equipment for use with each type of bedding is identified and its use described
in accordance with stable procedures.
Range
long pronged fork, rake, shovel, muck sack, wheelbarrow, broom.
1.3
Faeces, urine, soiled bedding and any other foreign matter are removed to
designated area in accordance with stable procedures.
1.4
Stable flooring is cleaned in accordance with stable procedures.
1.5
The reasons for maintaining a well-banked muck heap are identified.
1.6
The reasons for maintaining a clean stable are identified.
Element 2
Demonstrate knowledge of stable bedding, and replace and arrange stable bedding.
Performance criteria
2.1
Four types of stable bedding are described in terms of their advantages and
disadvantages.
Range
2.2
Stable bedding is described in terms of standards for quality for each type.
Range
2.3
includes but is not limited to – appearance, smell, colour.
Health issues associated with stable bedding types are described.
Range
2.4
may include but is not limited to – straw, sawdust, shavings, sand,
paper, rubber.
includes but is not limited to – dust, tanalised products.
Stable bedding is replaced and arranged in accordance with stable procedures.
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Element 3
Clean stable equipment and surrounds.
Performance criteria
3.1
Equipment is cleaned to remove dirt, and is stored tidily in areas out of the main
thoroughfare, in accordance with stable procedures.
3.2
Surrounds are maintained and tidied in accordance with stable procedures.
Range
may include but is not limited to – leaves, rubbish, feed stuffs,
bedding.
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 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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