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Level 2
Credits 7
Purpose People credited with this unit standard are able to select, use, and maintain hand tools and equipment used in water reticulation.
This unit standard is for people who work on water, or wastewater, or stormwater reticulation systems, which collectively make up water reticulation services.
Subfield Water Industry
Domain
Status
Status date
Date version published
Planned review date
Entry information
Replacement information
Accreditation
Water Reticulation
Registered
12 February 2010
12 February 2010
31 December 2013
Open.
This unit standard replaced unit standard 19206.
Evaluation of documentation by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB) Primary Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference 0179
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
Reference
Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes but is not limited to the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992.
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Element 1
Select, use, and maintain hand tools used in water reticulation.
Range five of
– callipers, chain pipe cutters, clamps, cold chisel, dies, drill and drill bits, files, grinder, hacksaws, hammers, crow bar, spirit level, tape measure, stilson, live tapping tool.
Performance criteria
1.1 The tool which is selected and used matches the work operation to be performed.
1.2 Tools are maintained in accordance with manufacturers' specifications and instructions.
1.3
Element 2
Tools are used without personal injury, and damage to buildings, other services, tools, and equipment.
Select, use, and maintain equipment used in water reticulation.
Range five different equipment items from – compressors, lifting gear, pipe cleaning machines, portable power generators, power tools, laser beams, level detectors, air blowers, shoring, atmosphere monitors, safety harness, pumps, pipe freezers.
Performance criteria
2.1 Equipment which is selected and used matches the work operation to be performed.
2.2 The equipment is maintained in accordance with manufacturers' specifications and instructions.
2.3 Equipment is used without personal injury, and without damage to buildings, other services, tools, and equipment.
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.
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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 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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