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Plan and schedule compost production for a composting facility
Level
5
Credits
20
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to establish production
requirements, complete a production plan, a contingency plan, and
production schedule, for a composting facility.
Subfield
Resource Recovery
Domain
Composting
Status
Registered
Status date
23 April 2007
Date version published
23 April 2007
Planned review date
31 December 2012
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and
industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation (Incorporated)
(MITO)
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0114
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
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All work practices must comply with the: Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992;
Resource Management Act 1991; Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act
1996; NZS 4454:2005 Composts, soil conditioners and mulches; New Zealand
Waste Strategy, Ministry for the Environment, available at http://www.mfe.govt.nz;
Local Authority bylaws; and Approved Code of Practice for the Management of
Substances Hazardous to Health in the Place of Work, Occupational Safety and
Health Service, available at http://www.osh.govt.nz/.
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Personal protective equipment (PPE) must be used throughout operations in
accordance with company procedures. PPE includes but is not limited to – gloves,
eye protection, appropriate footwear, overalls, hearing protection, respirator or
facemask, high visibility clothing, fire extinguisher, first aid kit, eye wash kit, face
shield/mask; hard hat.
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Definitions
Company procedures means 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.
Compost production plan may include: handling and pre-processing requirements for
raw materials, water required, maximum size of compost pile for effective
management with available machinery, monitoring schedule, processing duration,
post curing value adding required, final product specifications.
Health and safety hazards may include but are not limited to – physical hazards such
as vehicles and mobile machinery, dust, noise, hot or cold weather conditions,
underfoot conditions, machinery shredders, hammer mills and grinders, compressed
air and water; biological hazards associated with waste; sharps or other physical
contaminants in materials ergonomic hazards associated with manual handling.
Organic in this industry refers to materials that are putrescible or are of animal or
vegetable origin.
Receival data refers to data related to the receiving of raw material supplies for
feedstock.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Establish production requirements for a composting facility.
Performance criteria
1.1
Raw material, supply contracts, and receival data are analysed to establish
production requirements in accordance with company procedures.
Range
may include but are not limited to – plant materials, food waste,
wood and timber, sawdust, wood shavings, crop residuals, forestry
residuals, manures, biosolids, sewage grit and screenings, fats
and oils, organic sludges, paper-based materials, paper mill
wastes.
1.2
Sales and market trend information, and marketing plans and strategies, are
analysed to establish production requirements in accordance with company
procedures and budget targets.
1.3
Conditions that may affect production requirements and sales are identified and
analysed in accordance with company procedures.
1.4
Production requirements across the product portfolio are estimated in
accordance with customer requirements, and site and equipment capacity.
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Data on stockpiles of organic materials prior to composting are analysed in
terms of impacts on production volume and product quality.
Range
data – length of time in storage, moisture levels, presence of
vermin, odour levels.
1.6
Designated unloading areas are evaluated to establish levels of compliance
with containment and segregation of materials
1.7
Designated unloading areas are analysed to establish storage capacity.
1.8
Environmental and health and safety aspects of the production process are
analysed to establish their impacts on production and compliance with company
procedures and local authority consents.
Range
environmental and health and safety aspects may include but are
not limited to – spills, leaks, anthropogenic greenhouse gas
emissions, odours, organic dusts, litter; water pollution from runoff
or leachate, attraction of pests, erosion, noise and fire.
Element 2
Complete a production plan, a contingency plan, and production schedule for a
composting facility.
Performance criteria
2.1
The production plan is completed in accordance with data collected from
analysis and takes into account plant capabilities and site constraints.
2.2
The contingency plan addresses potential oversupply or undersupply of raw
material or product and contamination issues in relation to the production plan.
2.3
A production schedule is completed in accordance with the production plan,
availability of resources, and company procedures.
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.
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.
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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 NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation (Incorporated) (MITO)
info@mito.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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