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Title
Use load forming and strapping equipment in the corrugated
packaging industry
Level
3
Credits
10
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to demonstrate
knowledge of strapping equipment used in the workplace, and
make ready and run load forming equipment and strapping
equipment to meet production requirements.
Classification
Fibreboard Packaging > Corrugated Case Converting
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Critical health and
safety prerequisites
Unit 340, Demonstrate knowledge of safe working practices in
the printing and graphic pre-press industries, or demonstrate
equivalent knowledge and skills.
Recommended skills
and knowledge
Unit 10117, Stack converted product on a pallet or slip sheet in
the corrugated packaging industry, or demonstrate equivalent
knowledge and skills.
Explanatory notes
1
All workplace practices must meet any applicable and recognised codes of practice,
and documented workplace health, safety, and environmental procedures for
personal, product, workplace health, safety, and environmental matters, and the
obligations required under current law including the Health and Safety in Employment
Act 1992, Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996, Resource
Management Act 1991, Privacy Act 1993 and their subsequent amendments.
2
Workplace practices refer to the documented procedures for the machine and/or
workplace.
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Demonstrate knowledge of strapping equipment used in the workplace.
Evidence requirements
1.1
The components of the strapping equipment used in the workplace are
identified.
Range
components may include but are not limited to – sidelays, hold
down belt, back stop, clamp bar, tension controls, manual controls,
strap positioning controls, control panel features.
1.2
The purpose and function of the components ranged at evidence requirement
1.1 are described in terms of the faults that result from incorrect adjustment or
use.
1.3
The strap type specific to the strapping equipment used is described.
1.4
Threading of the strapping equipment is explained in terms of workplace
practices.
Outcome 2
Make ready and run load forming equipment and strapping equipment to meet production
requirements.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Load format requirements for the equipment being used are confirmed against
production order documentation.
2.2
Equipment is set ensuring that production order load format requirements are
met.
Range
2.3
load formers – cycling system to provide number of layers, and
bundles per layer;
strappers – number of straps, position of strap(s), direction of
strap(s).
Pallets and/or slip sheets are prepared for the load format required in
accordance with workplace practices.
Range
type, dimensions, condition.
2.4
Product is securely strapped, bundled, and unitised during production to meet
production order requirements.
2.5
Checks for obvious visible faults are undertaken in accordance with workplace
practices.
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obvious visible faults include – glue faults, folding faults, printing
faults, slotting and creasing faults, damaged product, unstripped
waste, incorrect quantity per bundle.
Range
2.6
Workplace practices to be followed in the event of faults ranged at evidence
requirement 2.5 occurring are explained and followed.
2.7
Unitised product is stacked on the pallet and/or slip sheet in accordance with
production order requirements and workplace practices.
2.8
Stacking is carried out in accordance with workplace practices without
avoidable delays and/or damage to the product.
2.9
Each load is identified in the manner, and at the production stage, required by
workplace practices.
Replacement information
This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
27802.
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
18 February 1998
31 December 2015
Revision
2
27 March 2001
31 December 2015
Review
3
27 April 2005
31 December 2015
Rollover and
Revision
4
12 December 2008
Review
5
20 September 2012
31 December 2019
Rollover
6
10 December 2015
31 December 2019
31 December 2015
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0005
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.
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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.
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