NZQA Expiring unit standard
Title
3237 version 7
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Install plastics pipe work according to plans and specifications under supervision
Level
Purpose
3 Credits 10
This unit standard is for people who work, or intend to work, in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning sector of the engineering industry. People credited with this unit standard are able, under supervision, to: procure materials for plastic pipe work installation and set out the job; install hangers, pipes and fittings and join plastic pipe; and test the pipe work.
Classification Mechanical Engineering > Heating, Ventilating, and Air
Conditioning
Available grade Achieved
Explanatory notes
1 Work site documents include contracts and any documented installation and operating procedures for the system, mechanical service, and pipe work to be installed.
2 All work site practices must meet recognised codes of practice and documented safety procedures and safety plans (where these exceed code) for personal and work site safety, and obligations required under current legislation.
3 Installation programme refers to any documented programme for installing the system (eg, a construction programme).
Outcome 1
Prepare to install pipe work.
Evidence requirements
1.1 Materials required for job mat ch work site documents and supervisor’s instructions.
1.2 Quantities of materials requisitioned and received are checked against inventory.
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Setting out of job is in accordance with work site documents and supervisor’s instructions.
Outcome 2
Install pipe work.
Evidence requirements
2.1 Hangers are installed to structural and seismic standards specified in work site documents.
2.2 Plastic pipe is cut, assembled, and joined to industry standard specified in work site documents, including solvent cementing and welding.
2.3 Hangers and plastic pipe are installed and spaced in accordance with work site documents and operational practice.
2.4
2.5
Installation is completed without unplanned cost or waste.
Installation is completed so that commissioning and maintenance can be carried out without alteration to installation.
2.6 Installation is completed so that control instructions and identifications can be read.
2.7 Installation is completed so that conflicts with other systems and components have been resolved.
2.8 Installation meets installation programme schedule and requirements.
Outcome 3
Test the pipe work.
Evidence requirements
3.1 Pipe work test shows pipe work meets operational requirements specified in work site documents.
3.2 Test record is produced and passed by inspecting authority specified in work site documents.
Replacement information This unit standard, unit standard 3234, and unit standard
3235 have been replaced by unit standard 26334.
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New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2020

NZQA Expiring unit standard 3237 version 7
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This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place before the expiry date set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process Version Date Last Date for Assessment
Registration
Revision
1
2
30 January 1995
14 April 1997
31 December 2016
31 December 2016
Revision
Revision
Revision
Review
3
4
5
6
5 January 1999
18 May 2001
16 April 2002
16 July 2010
31 December 2016
31 December 2016
31 December 2016
31 December 2016
Rollover 7 19 November 2015 31 December 2020
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Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (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 granted consent to assess against standards by
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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.
Consent requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the 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.
Comments on this unit standard
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