NZQA Expiring unit standard
14962 version 5
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Title
Describe and operate a coil fork at a slag extraction site
Level
3
Credits
20
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: describe the
operational characteristics and performance of a coil fork;
describe safe work practices and conditions for operating a coil
fork; check readiness and operate a coil fork; use attachments
for a coil fork; park and shut down a coil fork, 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).
This unit standard is
expiring
NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation
(Incorporated) (MITO)
SSB Code 101542
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA Expiring unit standard
14962 version 5
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Describe the operational characteristics and performance of a coil fork at a slag extraction
site.
Evidence requirements
1.1
The operational characteristics and performance of a coil fork 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.
Outcome 2
Describe safe work practices and conditions for operating a coil fork at a slag extraction
site.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Safe work practices and conditions for the coil fork operation are described in
accordance with industry best practice.
Range
safety check, pre-start checks, documentation, lubrication,
emergency stops, transport rules, attachments.
Outcome 3
This unit standard is
Checks on a coil fork areexpiring
completed in accordance with industry best practice.
Check readiness and operate a coil fork at a slag extraction site.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Range
safety checks, documentation, lubrication, pre-start checks, arms
and bucket, control levers, transmission controls.
3.2
Identified defects are reported and managed in accordance with industry best
practice and/or site requirements.
3.3
Coil fork is operated in accordance with the job requirements and plant
specifications.
Range
3.4
operation includes but is not limited to – travelling route, fire
prevention, proximity of people, transport rules.
Procedures for the operation of the Fire Protection System are simulated in
accordance with verified instructions and industry best practice.
NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation
(Incorporated) (MITO)
SSB Code 101542
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA Expiring unit standard
14962 version 5
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Outcome 4
Use attachments for a coil fork at a slag extraction site.
Evidence requirements
4.1
Fitting, removal, and operation of attachments are in accordance with verified
instructions and industry best practice.
4.2
Coils are picked up, carried, and stacked in accordance with verified
instructions and industry best practice.
4.3
Coils are picked up, carried, and loaded in accordance with verified instructions
and industry best practice.
Range
trucks, trailers, rail wagons.
Outcome 5
Park and shut down a coil fork, and complete documentation.
Evidence requirements
5.1
Coil fork is parked in accordance with industry best practice.
5.2
Coil fork is shut down in accordance with industry best practice.
5.3
Identified defects are reported and managed in accordance with industry best
practice.
This unit standard is
expiring
Replacement information
This unit standard replaced unit standard nnnnn. [Only
5.4
Documentation is completed in accordance with industry best practice and/or
site requirements.
appears if populated.]
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
NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation
(Incorporated) (MITO)
SSB Code 101542
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA Expiring unit standard
14962 version 5
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Process
Version
Date
Last Date for Assessment
Rollover and
Revision
4
16 July 2010
31 December 2017
Review
5
18 June 2015
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.
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.
This unit standard is
expiring
NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation
(Incorporated) (MITO)
SSB Code 101542
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016