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Level 5
Credits 6
Purpose People credited with this unit standard are able to: plan investigation; gather plant and system failure information; analyse results and determine cause; identify corrective actions; document system failure; and recommend actions.
Subfield Electricity Supply
Domain
Status
Status date
Date version published
Electricity Supply - Power System Management
Registered
11 December 2009
11 December 2009
Planned review date
Entry information
31 December 2014
Open.
Accreditation Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB) Electricity Supply Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference 0120
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do
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Special notes
1 This unit standard is intended for, but not restricted to, workplace assessment. The range statements across the unit standard can be applied according to industry specific equipment, procedures, and processes.
2 Performance and work practices in relation to the elements and performance criteria must comply with all current legislation, especially the Electricity Act 1992, and any regulations and codes of practice recognised under that statute; the Health and
Safety in Employment Act 1992; and the Resource Management Act 1991.
Electricity supply industry codes of practice and documented industry procedures include the Safety Manual
– Electricity Industry (SM-EI)
(2004) Wellington: Electricity
Engineers’ Association. A full list of current legislation and industry codes is available from the Electricity Supply Industry Training Organisation, PO Box 1245,
Waikato Mail Centre, Hamilton 3240.
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3 The phrase in accordance with industry requirements is implicit in all elements and performance criteria in this unit standard.
4 Industry requirements i nclude all asset owner requirements; manufacturers’ specifications; and enterprise requirements which cover the documented workplace policies, procedures, specifications, and business and quality management requirements relevant to the workplace in which assessment is carried out.
Element 1
Plan investigation.
Performance criteria
1.1 Prepared work plans include all necessary procedures and resources to investigate failures and meet all industry codes and statutory requirements.
1.2 Plans are in a format agreed by the customer and industry, and define locations and types of plans.
1.3 Plans and specifications are complete, concise, and legible and reflect identified risk with hazards being identified and eliminated, isolated, or minimised.
Element 2
Gather plant and system failure information.
Range System Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), reports, records, observations, inspections, history records.
Performance criteria
2.1 All relevant information on plant and system failure is identified, collected, and collated.
2.2 Information sources are identified.
Element 3
Analyse results and determine cause.
Range cause, probable cause.
Performance criteria
3.1 Investigation information is analysed.
3.2 Cause of failure is identified.
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3.3
Element 4
Industry specialists are consulted with when failure investigation falls outside of own area of expertise.
Identify corrective actions.
Range practicable, budget requirements.
Performance criteria
4.1 Corrective actions to remedy failure are identified in consultation with others and assessed against established enterprise criteria for appropriateness.
4.2
Element 5
Best option to remedy failure is identified and recorded in the required format.
Document system failure.
Range results, analysis information, recommendations.
Performance criteria
5.1 Recorded information is accurate, complete, concise, and legible.
5.2
Element 6
Investigation information is recorded in the required format and filed in the correct location and within scheduled timeframe.
Recommend actions.
Performance criteria
6.1 Recommendations to remedy plant and system failures are made in accordance with plan requirements.
6.2
6.3
Individuals and groups impacted by the recommendations are kept up-to-date.
Recommendations and investigation findings are circulated to other groups and parties for their information.
Range contractors, manufacturers, electricity networks.
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.
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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 Electricity Supply Industry Training Organisation info@esito.org.nz
if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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