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Cut components for marine inflatables
Level
3
Credits
4
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: obtain fabric for marine
inflatable component cutting; lay up fabric; and cut fabric, working from
supplied full-size patterns and documented job requirements. They are able
to work without supervision.
Subfield
Boating Industries
Domain
Marine Sales and Services
Status
Registered
Status date
27 August 1997
Date version published
20 March 2009
Planned review date
31 December 2012
Entry information
Open.
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
Company procedures, company requirements, and job requirements – the
documented procedures and requirements for the machine and/or process and/or
worksite.
2
Evidence of the elements of this unit standard must be presented across the
following contexts:
cutting equipment – hand shears, fabric knife, pattern press, laser cutting equipment,
water cutting equipment.
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The following apply to the performance of all elements of this unit standard:
a All required equipment must be set up, started up, operated, and shut down in
accordance with company procedures.
b 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.
c All work practices must meet documented worksite quality management
requirements. These include documentation of activities, events, and decisions.
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This unit standard can be assessed on job.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Obtain fabric for marine inflatable component cutting.
Performance criteria
1.1
Fabric type, colour, and denier are matched with job requirements.
Range
1.2
type – hyperlon, polyvinyl chloride, neoprene rubber.
Identification of fabric faults enables rectification action to be taken in order to
achieve customer's requirements.
Range
holes, tears, runs, delamination, coating thickness faults.
Element 2
Lay up fabric.
Performance criteria
2.1
Selection of pattern matches job requirements.
2.2
Orientation and layout of pattern match job requirements and company
requirements for minimisation of waste.
2.3
Fabric is marked and labelled in accordance with job requirements and fabric
type.
Range
2.4
construction lines, cutting lines.
Lay up is checked in accordance with company requirements.
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Element 3
Cut fabric.
Performance criteria
3.1
Cut components meet job and/or company requirements for tolerance.
3.2
Company requirements for production rate are achieved.
3.3
Fabric is directed to next process in accordance with company procedures and
job requirements.
Range
buffing and cleaning, storage, transport, waste disposal.
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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