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Optimise and manage diatomaceous earth filtration processes for
drinking-water treatment
Level
5
Credits
4
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: optimise diatomaceous
earth filtration processes for drinking-water treatment; and identify critical
points and hazards, and identify and manage preventive and corrective
actions, in diatomaceous earth filtration processes.
Subfield
Water Industry
Domain
Water Treatment
Status
Registered
Status date
19 September 2008
Date version published
19 September 2008
Planned review date
31 December 2013
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA, industry
and teaching professional in the same field from another
provider.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Primary Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0179
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
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Reference
Drinking-Water Standards for New Zealand, Ministry of Health, Wellington, 2000 and
2005.
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Definitions
Critical points – points in a process or in equipment where failure to function correctly
can lead to a public health hazard.
Optimise – adjusting plant input variables to make the process as effective as
possible in order to achieve the desired output, taking into account the constraints of
cost, human input, water quality, and water demand.
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Organisational procedures – instructions to staff, and procedures which are
documented in memo or manual format and are available in the workplace. These
requirements include but are not limited to – site specific requirements,
manufacturers’ specifications, product quality specifications, and legislative or
regulatory requirements.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Optimise diatomaceous earth filtration processes for drinking-water treatment.
Range
includes but is not limited to – pressure, vacuum.
Performance criteria
1.1
Diatomaceous earth filtration processes are optimised in terms of their design
features.
Range
1.2
filtration rates, inlet control, containment and flow paths, media
type and thickness, outlet flow control.
Diatomaceous earth filtration processes are optimised in terms of their
operation, and performance monitoring.
Range
operation – backwashing or cleaning regime and sequence, flow
and level control, effluent disposal, media selection, media
condition, troubleshooting and maintenance.
Element 2
Identify critical points and hazards, and identify and manage preventive and corrective
actions, in diatomaceous earth filtration processes.
Performance criteria
2.1
The critical points in diatomaceous earth filtration processes are identified in
accordance with organisational procedures.
2.2
The hazards at each critical point are identified in terms of the causes of the
events leading to their occurrence, and the risk factors.
2.3
The preventive and corrective actions for events related to each hazard are
identified.
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.
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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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