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Remove honey supers from beehives
Level
3
Credits
3
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to remove honey supers from
beehives.
Subfield
Agriculture
Domain
Apiculture
Status
Registered
Status date
21 August 2009
Date version published
21 August 2009
Planned review date
31 December 2014
Entry information
Open.
Replacement information
This unit standard and unit standard 25890 replaced unit
standard 19891.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA, industry
and teaching professional in the same field from another
provider.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Primary Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0052
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
Legislation includes but is not limited to the – Health and Safety in Employment Act
1993, Animal Products Act 1999, and their subsequent amendments.
2
Definition
In-house procedures – verbal or written instructions to staff on procedures for
beehive and apiary management, which must comply with legislative requirements.
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Reference
Goodwin, Mark, Elimination of American Foulbrood Disease Without The Use of
Drugs: A Practical Manual for Beekeepers (Otaki, New Zealand: National
Beekeepers Association of New Zealand Inc., revised edition 2006) (also referred to
as The Beekeeper’s Manual), available from the National Beekeepers Association of
NZ (Inc) (NBA) website at http://www.nba.org.nz, or email secretary@nba.org.nz.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Remove honey supers from beehives.
Performance criteria
1.1
Beehives are labelled and removed in accordance with in-house procedures.
1.2
Bees are removed from honey supers in accordance with in-house procedures.
Range
1.3
two of – shake and brush, escape board, bee blower with a hive
stand.
Honey supers are stacked for transport and covered to minimise robbing in
accordance with in-house procedures.
Range
drip trays, cover boards, tarpaulin, load straps.
1.4
Beehives are checked for disease and re-assembled in accordance with inhouse procedures.
1.5
Procedures are carried out in accordance with in-house apiary hygiene
procedures, safe manual handling, and Health and Safety legislation.
1.6
Honey supers are removed from the transport vehicle and stored in accordance
with in-house 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.
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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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