NZQA registered unit standard
23299 version 3
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Title
Locate and demonstrate knowledge of raw materials, plant, and
equipment at a composting facility
Level
2
Purpose
Credits
3
This unit standard is for people working in the composting
sector of the resource recovery industry.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify,
describe, and locate common raw materials; describe the
requirements for handling raw materials; and locate plant and
equipment at a composting facility and describe their function
and key processes.
Classification
Resource Recovery > Composting
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
Definitions
Company procedures mean the documented methods for performing work activities and
include health and safety, environmental, and quality management requirements. They
may refer to manuals, codes of practice, or policy statements.
Organic in the resource recovery industry refers to materials that are putrescible or are of
animal or vegetable origin.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Identify, describe, and locate common raw materials for a composting facility.
Range
common raw materials are organic and may include but are not limited to –
plant materials, food residuals, wood and timber sawdust, wood shavings, crop
residuals, forestry residuals, animal mortalities, manures, sewage grit and
screenings, fats and oils, organic sludges, dairy waste, paper-based materials,
paper mill wastes, abattoir waste, food processing waste;
evidence is required for three materials.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Common raw materials are identified and described in terms of their basic
characteristics.
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(Incorporated) (MITO)
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NZQA registered unit standard
1.2
Visible physical contaminants are identified in raw materials for compost
feedstock.
Range
1.3
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physical contaminants may include but are not limited to – glass,
plastics, metals, rubble, stone, soil, sharps.
Key raw material processing locations are identified at a composting facility.
Outcome 2
Describe requirements for handling raw materials for a composting facility.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Safe handling of raw materials is described in terms of the risks of potential
hazards.
Range
2.2
hazards may include – sharps, pathogens, dust, chemicals,
ergonomic;
evidence is required for three hazards.
Handling requirements for processing raw materials are described in
accordance with company procedures.
Range
handling may include but is not limited to – acceptance, sorting,
blending, covering, testing, storing;
evidence is required for three materials.
Outcome 3
Locate plant and equipment at a composting facility and describe their function and key
processes.
Range
may include but is not limited to – screening systems, shredding systems,
conveyor belts and associated separator equipment, contaminant disposal,
front-end loaders, excavators, transport machinery, compost turners, blending
plants, bagging equipment, weigh bridges;
evidence is required for three different units of plant and equipment.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Plant and equipment are located in relation to their position at composting
facility.
3.2
Plant and equipment are described in terms of their functions in the composting
process.
3.3
Key steps for processing raw materials to compost are described in accordance
with company procedures.
NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation
(Incorporated) (MITO)
SSB Code 101542
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA registered unit standard
Planned review date
23299 version 3
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31 December 2019
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
23 April 2007
31 December 2012
Revision
2
20 May 2011
31 December 2017
Review
3
16 April 2015
N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0114
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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 (CMRs). 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
Please contact the NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation (Incorporated) (MITO)
info@mito.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation
(Incorporated) (MITO)
SSB Code 101542
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016