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Title
Demonstrate environmental audit techniques in the dairy industry
Level
3
Credits
7
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: explain the
features of an effective environmental auditing programme;
demonstrate environmental audit techniques; and identify and
document accurate environmental audit findings, and prepare
an environmental audit report for a dairy enterprise.
Classification
Dairy Manufacturing > Dairy Environmental Management
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Critical health and
safety prerequisites
Open.
Explanatory notes
Definitions
Legislative requirements in this unit standard refer to legislation and regulations that
include but are not limited to the Resource Management Act 1991, and its
subsequent amendments.
Environmental management system in this unit standard includes but is not limited to
compliance with AS/NZS ISO 14001:2004 Environment Management Systems –
Requirements with guidance for use.
Environmental management system audit: a systematic and documented verification
process of objectively obtaining and evaluating evidence to determine whether an
organisation’s environmental management system conforms to defined audit criteria.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Explain the features of an effective environmental auditing programme in the dairy
industry.
Evidence requirements
1.1
The types of environmental auditing programmes and reasons for conducting
these types of audits in the dairy industry are explained.
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internal audits, third party certification audits, compliance audits,
performance audits.
1.2
Steps involved in conducting environmental audits are explained.
1.3
Audit scope is able to be defined in terms of departments and persons to be
audited and time taken in conducting an audit.
Outcome 2
Demonstrate environmental audit techniques for a dairy industry enterprise.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Environmental audit techniques are carried out to meet enterprise requirements.
Range
record review, verification and test, physical inspections.
2.2
Documents are searched and assessed in terms of location of departmental
evidence, and identifying specific locations to inspect.
2.3
A range of communication skills are used to elicit information in terms of
carrying out environmental audits.
Range
2.4
commmunication skills include but are not limited to – questioning,
observing, listening, summarising.
Responses are recorded and transferred to audit notes in accordance with
enterprise requirements.
Outcome 3
Identify and document accurate environmental audit findings, and prepare an
environmental audit report for a dairy industry enterprise.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Types of environmental audit findings are classified to meet enterprise
requirements.
3.2
Environmental audit report is written according to the requirements of enterprise
and/or the organisation requesting the audit, and the audit criteria requirements.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
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SSB Code 101558
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Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
26 September 2003
31 December 2017
Rollover and
Revision
2
26 January 2007
31 December 2017
Review
3
15 October 2015
31 December 2017
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0022
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR 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.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
SSB Code 101558
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