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Describe non-electric fences, fence support materials, and safe
practices in fencing
Level
2
Credits
2
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to describe: non-electric
fence types and their suitability for stock type; fence support materials; and
employer and employee health and safety requirements, safe handling
methods, hazards in fencing, and safety aids and equipment.
Subfield
Agriculture
Domain
Fencing
Status
Registered
Status date
22 August 2008
Date version published
16 April 2010
Planned review date
31 December 2012
Entry information
Open.
Replacement information
This unit standard and unit standard 24837 replaced unit
standard 19126.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation by NZQA and industry.
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
Product use manuals are available from manufacturers and should be consulted in all
training situations.
2
Legislation applicable to this unit standard includes the Health and Safety in
Employment Act 1992, and its subsequent amendments.
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Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Describe non-electric fence types and their suitability for stock type.
Range
multi-wire, wire and batten, wire and dropper, post and rail; fabricated netting.
Performance criteria
1.1
Non-electric types of fences are described in terms of their uses.
1.2
Non-electric types of fences are described in terms of their suitability for stock
type.
Element 2
Describe fence support materials.
Performance criteria
2.1
Fence support materials are described in terms of their primary functions.
Range
2.2
strainers, angles, posts, battens, rails.
Staples and nails are described in terms of their uses.
Range
staples – post, batten, barbed, plain;
nails – galvanised, flathead.
Element 3
Describe employer and employee health and safety requirements, safe handling methods,
hazards in fencing, and safety aids and equipment.
Performance criteria
3.1
Responsibilities of employer and employee are described in accordance with
the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992.
3.2
Manual handling methods are described in terms of their safety for given
situations.
Range
3.3
lifting, carrying, dragging.
Fencing hazards are identified and described in terms of personal and stock
injury, and associated cause, effect, and avoidance measures.
Range
wire, staples, tools, electrical lines, weather.
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3.4
Common safety aids and equipment are identified and described in terms of
their use.
Range
three of – ear-muffs, gloves, boots, first aid kit, eye protection or
goggles.
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.
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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