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Level 5
Credits 20
Purpose This unit standard is for building officials who are required to complete routine inspections for drainlaying, plumbing, and water supply, in multiresidential, commercial, and industrial situations.
People credited with this unit standard are able to conduct routine commercial drainlaying, plumbing, and water supply systems inspections.
Subfield Compliance and Law Enforcement
Domain
Status
Status date
Date version published
Building Control Surveying
Registered
20 April 2006
17 October 2008
Planned review date
Entry information
31 December 2012
Open.
Replacement information
Accreditation
This unit standard replaced unit standard 7234, unit standard 7235, and unit standard 7236.
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA, industry and teaching professional in the same field from another provider.
Standard setting body (SSB) The Skills Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference 0046
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1 Compliance with the following legislation, regulations, codes, and standards is required:
Building Act 2004;
Local Government Act 2002;
Building Code;
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Territorial Authority regulations;
AS/NZS 3500.2:2003 Plumbing and drainage – Sanitary plumbing and drainage .
2 Definition
Organisational requirements refer to instructions to staff on policy and procedures which are documented in memo or manual format and are available in the workplace.
Element 1
Conduct routine commercial drainlaying inspections.
Performance criteria
1.1 Consistency between the consent plan and drainlaying installed on-site is determined in terms of pipe sizes, materials, drain supports, protections, method of construction, invert levels, gradients, measurements, and bedding.
1.2 The nominated test(s) are checked to determine whether they meet the Building
Code requirements.
1.3 Local conditions and restrictions that apply to the installation are identified in terms of their impact on the inspection process.
1.4 Decisions to make amendments to the consent are applied according to
Territorial Authority regulations and organisational requirements.
1.5 On-site waste disposal systems are checked for compliance with the Building
Code.
1.6 As-built construction is recorded and certified to meet organisational requirements.
1.7 The inspection is completed within a timeframe appropriate to the complexity of the specific inspection as determined by the legislative requirements.
1.8
Element 2
Compliance actions that are identified from the inspection are documented, reported, and actioned to meet legislative requirements.
Conduct routine commercial plumbing inspections.
Performance criteria
2.1 Consistency between the consent plan and the plumbing installed on-site is determined in terms of pipe sizes, materials, fixtures, fittings, systems, supports, protection, method of construction, invert levels, gradients, measurements, and pipe codes.
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2.2
2.3
Materials are installed according to manufacture’s specifications.
The nominated tests are checked to determine whether they meet the Building
Code requirements.
2.4 Local conditions and restrictions that apply to the installation are identified in terms of their impact on the inspection process.
2.5 Decisions to make amendments to the consent are applied according to
Territorial Authority regulations and organisational requirements.
2.6 The inspection is completed within a timeframe appropriate to the complexity of the specific inspection as determined by the legislative requirements.
2.7 Compliance actions that are identified from the inspection are documented, reported, and actioned to meet organisational requirements.
Element 3
Conduct routine commercial water supply systems inspections.
Performance criteria
3.1 Consistency between the consent plan and water supply system installed onsite is determined in terms of pipe sizes, materials, fixtures and fittings, systems, supports, protection in terms of backflow, temperature control and the pipe itself, method of construction, and pipe codes.
3.2
3.3
Materials are installed according to manufacturer’s specifications.
The nominated tests are checked to determine whether they meet the Building
Code.
3.4 Decisions to make amendments to the consent are applied according to
Territorial Authority regulations and organisational requirements.
3.5 The inspection is completed within a timeframe appropriate to the complexity of the specific inspection as determined by the legislative requirements.
3.6 Compliance actions that are identified from the inspection are documented, reported, and actioned to meet organisational requirements.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority, 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 the Qualifications Authority before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
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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 Skills Organisation info@skills.org.nz
if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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