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Demonstrate knowledge of working environments for imported cargo
and conveyances
Level
3
Credits
4
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to demonstrate knowledge of:
cargo and conveyances, and cargo-related facilities and organisations
relevant to international trade and biosecurity activities.
This unit standard is designed for Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF)
Quarantine Officers, and aims to ensure that Quarantine Officers are
sufficiently conversant with their working environments to be able to carry out
their biosecurity duties efficiently and effectively without compromising safety
and working relationships with client organisations and personnel.
Subfield
Biosecurity
Domain
Border Quarantine
Status
Registered
Status date
19 April 2002
Date version published
26 January 2007
Planned review date
31 December 2011
Entry information
Open.
Replacement information
This unit standard replaced the cargo-related content of
unit standard 16824.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and
industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Competenz
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0173
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
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Definitions
Conveyances are defined as anything designed for the containment and/or carriage
of other items, and that could serve as a medium for the transmission of, or infection
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by, a pest or disease. For the purpose of this unit standard, the term conveyances
excludes ships and aircraft.
Transitional facility means any place approved in accordance with the Biosecurity Act
1993 for the purpose of inspection, storage, treatment, quarantine, holding,
containment, or destruction of uncleared goods, including a part of a port of entry,
declared to be a transitional facility.
For the purpose of this unit standard, the use of the terms cargo and goods (as
defined in the Biosecurity Act 1993) are synonymous.
2
Legislation applying to this unit standard includes the Biosecurity Act 1993, Health
and Safety in Employment Act 1992.
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The reference texts for this unit standard are Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Standards, and Process Procedures. They are available from the Ministry of
Agriculture and Forestry, PO Box 2526, Wellington, and from the MAF website:
http://www.maf.govt.nz/.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Demonstrate knowledge of cargo and conveyances.
Performance criteria
1.1
Terminology and abbreviations associated with international freight and freight
movement are defined in accordance with the reference texts.
Range
1.2
Containers are identified by type, codes, and abbreviations.
Range
1.3
includes but is not limited to – bulk container, can, flat rack,
general purpose, open top, pig, refrigerated container, tanktainer.
Non-containerised cargo terminology is defined.
Range
1.4
includes but is not limited to – Airway Bill (AWB), bill of lading
(B/L), box, cans, cartons (CTNS), cases (C/S), consignee,
consignor, consolidation (consol/CSL), crates (CRTS), demurrage,
devan, empty container (MT), estimated time of arrival (ETA),
estimated time of departure (ETD), fork hoist, freight all kinds
(FAK), full container load (FCL), gantry crane, groupage, house
airway bill (HAWB), less than container load (LCL), master airway
bill (MAWB), overcarried, pallets (PLTS), port of lading, port of
loading, reefer, short-ship, side loader, straddle, to be advised
(TBA), tranship, under bond, unit load device (ULD).
includes but not limited to – breakbulk, bulk, loose, roll-on roll-off.
Cargo packaging methods and markings are identified.
Range
packaging methods include but are not limited to – bags, bales,
boxes, cable drums, cartons, cases, coils, crates, drums,
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dunnage, liftvans, liquid nitrogen container, load platforms, pails,
pallecon, pallets, rolls, shrinkwrap, skids.
Markings – may include but not limited to – container numbers,
marks/brands, order numbers.
1.5
Cargo documentation and information relating to the movement of cargo and
conveyances are explained.
Range
includes but is not limited to – air and sea craft movement
information, airway bills, bills of lading, container load plans,
dangerous goods classifications, import container lists, manifests.
Element 2
Demonstrate knowledge of cargo-related facilities and organisations relevant to
international trade and biosecurity activities.
Performance criteria
2.1
MAF Quarantine Service (MAFQS) interaction with freight forwarding and
ancillary services is explained in terms of responsibilities, authorities, and
working relationships and/or agreements.
Range
2.2
airline companies, carriers, customs brokers/agents, freight
forwarders, freight handlers, ground handling agents, importers,
New Zealand Customs Service, quarantine refuse disposal
facilities, security services, shipping agents, shipping companies,
stevedores, tally clerks, transitional facility, transitional facility
operators, treatment suppliers, watersiders.
Worksite health and safety protocols and requirements under the Health and
Safety in Employment Act 1992 are explained in terms of responsibilities.
Range
protocols and requirements relating to MAFQS Occupational
Safety and Health Policy and those of associated organisations;
protocols and responsibilities relating to the entry into hazardous
or dangerous goods areas for biosecurity purposes.
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.
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 Competenz at info@competenz.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes
to the content of this unit standard.
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