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Supervise earthworks preparation for civil construction
Level
4
Credits
8
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: confirm company plans
and the extent of worksite clearance and determine access and facilities;
select plant, equipment, vehicles and operators for clearing, earthworks, and
drainage; supervise the clearing of the construction-site surface; supervise
the establishment of temporary roading and site facilities; and supervise the
installation of drainage discharge controls.
Subfield
Civil Works and Services
Domain
Civil Construction Supervision
Status
Registered
Status date
25 September 2006
Date version published
25 September 2006
Planned review date
31 December 2012
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and
industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Infrastructure ITO
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
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This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
The following legislation and regulations must be complied with: Health and Safety in
Employment Act 1992; and Health and Safety in Employment Regulations 1995.
2
Assessment against this unit standard must take place in a workplace environment.
Assessment parameters will be dependent on company and site specific equipment,
procedures, and practices. Practices must reflect industry best practice and comply
with legislative requirements.
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The requirements within the following codes of practice and guidelines applying to
civil construction operations must be complied with as appropriate to the context of
assessment for this unit standard: The Official New Zealand Truck Loading Code,
LTSA (Auckland: MacMillan, 1999) ISBN: 047306104X available from local book
shops published by Land Transport NZ; Operator Safety Manual for Earthmoving
Machinery, 2002 available from Infrastructure ITO http://www.infrastructureito.org.nz
and the New Zealand Contractors Federation, http://www.nzcontractors.co.nz;
Approved Code of Practice for Safety in Excavation and Shafts for Foundations
(Wellington: Department of Labour, 1995) available from the Occupational Safety and
Health service at http://www.osh.dol.govt.nz/order/catalogue/135.shtml.
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Definitions
Company requirements include the policy, procedures, and methodologies of the
company. They include legislative and regulatory requirements which may apply
across the company or to a specific site. Requirements are documented in the
company’s health and safety plans, traffic management plans, contract work
programmes, quality assurance programmes, policies, and procedural documents.
Contract specifications include plans, diagrams, and special technical conditions.
They do not include special administrative conditions.
Walk over means to physically walk around the site inspecting it for construction
requirements.
Set-out means to set out site by survey method using pegs.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Confirm company plans and the extent of worksite clearance, and determine access and
facilities.
Performance criteria
1.1
Company plan requirements are confirmed.
Range
site safety plan, environmental plan, traffic management plan.
1.2
The extent of clearance work needed is determined in accordance with contract
specifications.
1.3
The extent of clearance work and survey set-out of site is confirmed by worksite
walk over in accordance with company requirements.
Range
1.4
includes but is not limited to – site boundaries, pegs or other
visible markers.
Temporary access, roading, and site facilities are determined in accordance
with contract specifications.
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Element 2
Select plant, equipment, vehicles and operators for clearing, earthworks, and drainage.
Performance criteria
2.1
Capabilities of plant, equipment, and vehicles are assessed to meet task and
worksite requirements.
Range
2.2
Plant, equipment, and vehicles are confirmed as available within project time
restraints.
Range
2.3
type, quantity, time, capacity, performance, output, specification,
quality.
cost, suitability, time and place, and may include – warrant of
fitness, certificate of fitness, certificate of loading, hubodometers.
Skills of operators are checked against task requirements in accordance with
company requirements.
Range
competencies, licences, training, qualifications.
Element 3
Supervise the clearing of the construction-site surface.
Performance criteria
3.1
Supervision ensures that objects obstructing the worksite are uplifted and
removed in accordance with contract specifications and company requirements.
Range
may include but is not limited to – debris, concrete foundations,
fences.
3.2
Supervision ensures that on-site vegetation is cleared and removed or mulched
in accordance with contract specifications.
3.3
Supervision ensures that topsoil is stripped and stockpiled in accordance with
contract specifications.
Element 4
Supervise the establishment of temporary roading and site facilities.
Performance criteria
4.1
Supervision ensures that temporary access and roading are established in
accordance with contract specifications.
Range
may include but is not limited to – preventing off-site
contamination, traffic management.
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4.2
Supervision ensures that temporary site facilities are established in accordance
with contract specifications and Health and Safety Regulations 1995.
Range
may include but is not limited to – security, fencing, taping,
notices, signs, ablutions, site buildings, temporary services.
Element 5
Supervise the installation of drainage discharge controls.
Performance criteria
5.1
Supervision ensures that drainage discharge controls are installed in
accordance with contract specifications.
Range
any three of – sump, soak pit, separator, silt trap, cut-off drain.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority, 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 the Qualifications Authority 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 Infrastructure ITO askus@infratrain.co.nz if you wish to suggest changes to
the content of this unit standard.
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