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Title
Describe and operate a ladle carrier at a slag extraction site
Level
3
Credits
20
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able: describe the
operational characteristics and performance of a ladle carrier;
describe safe work practices and conditions for operating a
ladle carrier; check readiness and operate a ladle carrier; use
attachments for a ladle carrier; and park and shut down a ladle
carrier and complete documentation; at a slag extraction site.
Classification
Extractive Industries > Surface Extraction
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
Performance of the outcomes of this unit standard must comply with the following
enactments and codes:
Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 (HSE);
Health and Safety in Employment Regulations 1995;
Health and Safety in Employment (Mining Administration) Regulations 1996;
Health and Safety in Employment (Mining – Underground) Regulations 1999;
approved codes of practice issued pursuant to the HSE Act.
2
All statutory and authority requirements must include the latest amendments.
3
This vehicle is designed to perform a highly specialised series of tasks at a slag
reduction site. Operators intending to achieve this unit standard must have access to
both the specialist vehicle and a slag reduction work site.
4
Definitions
Site requirements mean the documented methods for performing work activities and
include health and safety, operational, environmental, and quality management
requirements. They may refer to manuals, codes of practice, or policy statements.
Industry best practice refers to those practices which competent practitioners within
the industry recognise as current industry best practice. These may be documented
in management plans, company procedures or requirements, managers’ rules,
occupational health and safety policy, industry guidelines, codes of practice,
manufacturers’ instructions, and safe working and/or job procedures (or equivalent).
EAF refers to Electric Arc Furnace.
KOBM (Kombiniert Oxygen Bottom-blowing Maxhutte) refers to an oxygen
steelmaking furnace used at NZ Steel Ltd at Glenbrook.
This unit standard is
expiring
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Describe the operational characteristics and performance of a ladle carrier at a slag
extraction site.
Evidence requirements
1.1
The operational characteristics and performance of a ladle carrier are described
in terms of its operation in an extractive site.
Range
1.2
safety features, controls, operating procedures, components.
Attachments are described in terms of their function.
Range
slag bowls, scrap baskets, dump ladles.
Outcome 2
Describe safe work practices and conditions for operating a ladle carrier at a slag
extraction site.
Evidence requirements
2.1
The safe work practice and conditions for the ladle carrier operation are
described in accordance with industry best practice.
Range
safety check, documentation, lubrication, emergency stops,
transport rules, attachments.
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Evidence requirements
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Outcome 3
Check readiness and operate a ladle carrier at a slag extraction site.
3.1
Checks on a ladle carrier are completed in accordance with industry best
practice.
Range
safety checks, documentation, lubrication, pre-start checks,
position of frame, locks and hydraulic cylinders, control levers.
3.2
Identified defects are reported and managed in accordance with industry best
practice and/or site requirements.
3.3
Ladle carrier is operated in accordance with the job requirements and plant
specifications.
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Range
3.4
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operation includes but is not limited to – travelling route, fire
prevention, spillage prevention, proximity of people, transport
rules.
Procedures for the operation of the Fire Protection System are demonstrated by
simulation in accordance with verified instructions and industry best practice.
Outcome 4
Use attachments for a ladle carrier.
Evidence requirements
4.1
Fitting, removal, and operation of attachments are in accordance with verified
instructions and industry best practice.
4.2
Slag bowl is picked up, carried, and dumped in accordance with verified
instructions and industry best practice.
4.3
Scrap baskets are picked up, carried, and re-positioned in accordance with
verified instructions and industry best practice.
4.4
Ladles are picked up, carried, and dumped in accordance with verified
instructions and industry best practice.
4.5
Bowl changes are carried out in accordance with verified instructions and
industry best practice.
Range
4.6
accretion bowl, melter slag bowl, KOBM slag bowl, EAF slag bowl.
A metal tap is set up and executed in accordance with verified instructions and
industry best practice.
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Park and shut down a ladle carrier, expiring
and complete documentation.
Outcome 5
Evidence requirements
5.1
Ladle carrier is parked in accordance with industry best practice.
5.2
Ladle carrier is shut down in accordance with industry best practice.
5.3
Identified defects are reported and managed in accordance with industry best
practice.
5.4
Documentation is completed in accordance with industry best practice and/or
site requirements.
NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation
(Incorporated) (MITO)
SSB Code 101542
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA Expiring unit standard
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Replacement information
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
25 June 1998
31 December 2017
Revision
2
17 April 2002
31 December 2017
Review
3
23 September 2005
31 December 2017
Rollover and
Revision
4
16 July 2010
Review
5
18 June 2015
31 December 2017
31 December 2017
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0114
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.
This unit standard is
Requirements for consent to assessexpiring
and an outline of the moderation system that applies
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.
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.
NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation
(Incorporated) (MITO)
SSB Code 101542
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016