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SNOWSPORT AREA OPERATIONS
Use lowering techniques for snowsport
area operations
level:
4
credit:
5
planned review date:
June 2009
sub-field:
Snowsport
replacement information:
This unit standard and unit standard 18132 replaced unit
standard 4585.
purpose:
People credited with this unit standard are able to
demonstrate use of rope skills to maintain safety of self and
another worker for snowsport area operations, and to lower a
toboggan on snowsport area terrain.
This unit standard may be of interest to people working
towards their patrolling qualifications.
entry information:
Recommended: Unit 20151, Demonstrate skills with ropes,
knots, anchors, and belays for rock climbing and abseiling, or
demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills.
accreditation option:
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and industry.
moderation option:
A centrally established and directed national moderation
system has been set up by Sport, Fitness and Recreation
Industry Training Organisation.
special notes:
1
For technical standards necessary for climbing a
mountain, refer to Unit 20140, Demonstrate technical
mountain craft skills. This unit standard may also be
assessed against in conjunction with mountain search
and rescue skills.
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2
All activities must comply with the policies, procedures,
and requirements of the enterprises involved and any
relevant environmental, legislative and/or regulatory
requirements which include but are not limited to the
Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 (HSE),
Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation
Act 2001, and their subsequent amendments and
associated regulations.
3
There are minimum assessor requirements for
assessment against this unit standard. The details of
these requirements are available on the Sfrito website
http://www.sfrito.org.nz/.
Elements and Performance Criteria
element 1
Demonstrate use of rope skills to maintain safety of self and another worker for snowsport
area operations.
performance criteria
1.1
Mountaineering equipment is described in relation to its use, care, and
limitations, with options for improvisation identified.
Range:
1.2
Anchors for a lowering system are placed on ice, snow and rock surfaces to
provide security for self and another worker.
Range:
1.3
rope, slings, karabiners, harness, helmet, anchors, belay device.
vertical and deadman snowstake/skis, artificial anchors,
icescrews.
Rope handling skills are demonstrated, and the equipment is handled efficiently
and safely.
Range:
coiling, uncoiling, tying on, attaching rope to belay and anchor
system(s), paying out, bringing in the rope.
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1.4
A range of belay systems are identified, and a belay system selected and used
in the mountaineering situation.
Range:
belay plate, Italian hitch, body belay, figure eight.
element 2
Demonstrate use of rope skills to lower a loaded toboggan on snowsport area terrain.
performance criteria
2.1
Anchors and rope are set up on a range of terrain to provide security for self,
rescuers and patient.
Range:
2.2
The toboggan is lowered maintaining safety of self, the patient and other
workers.
Range:
2.3
terrain – ice, snow, rock;
coiling, uncoiling, tying on, attaching rope to belay, anchor
system(s) and toboggan.
belay system, paying out, bringing in the rope.
The toboggan is transferred to another belay maintaining the safety of self, the
patient and other workers.
Range:
locking off belay, securing toboggan, transferring load.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Sport, Fitness and Recreation Industry Training Organisation
info@sfrito.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
Please Note
Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority or a delegated interinstitutional body before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards
or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority before
they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
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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 providers wishing to
develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and
assessors, and special resource requirements.
This unit standard is covered by AMAP 0050 which can be accessed at
http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/site/framework/search.html.
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