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Title
Complete a dive using Enriched Air Nitrox (EANx)
Level
3
Credits
1
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: plan an
EANx dive; prepare to dive using EANx; dive using EANx; and
disassemble and maintain equipment used for EANx dives.
Classification
Diving > Diving - General
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Critical health and
safety prerequisites
Entry is restricted to those in possession of the entry level
certification as recognised by the New Zealand Underwater
Training Council (NZURTC) or equivalent, as determined by
the Dive Industry Training Organisation.
Explanatory notes
1
Industry technical and safety criteria refer to the training manuals of the training
agencies approved by the Dive Industry Training Organisation.
2
All workplace diving practice must comply with the requirements of the Health and
Safety in Employment Act, 1992 (HSE) and subsequent regulations relating to
Occupational Diving. All practice must also comply with Accident Rehabilitation and
Compensation Insurance Act, 1992 (ACRI) and Occupational Safety and Health
(OSH) guidelines.
3
All training providers assessing against any recreational diving unit standards must
ensure that the training is conducted by a qualified instructor in current teaching
status with one of the listed agencies: National Association of Underwater Instructors
(NAUI), Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), Scuba Schools
International (SSI), Confederation Mondiale des Activities Subaquatique (CMAS) (or
an equivalent determined by the ITO), and the instructor is providing training in
accordance with the standards and procedures of the respective training agency.
This unit standard is
expiring
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Plan an EANx dive.
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Evidence requirements
1.1
The requirements of EANx use and hazards are identified to industry technical
and safety criteria.
Range
1.2
requirements - approved cylinders, colour coding, dive planning,
stamping, compliance, adequate filtering, compatible equipment
and materials;
hazards - equipment contamination, oxygen toxicity, explosion
risk, decompression illness, EANx blend analysis.
The dive plan is prepared to industry technical and safety criteria.
Outcome 2
Prepare to dive using EANx.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Equipment and blend selected meet industry technical and safety criteria.
Range
2.2
Dive preparation ensures that equipment is maintained to industry technical and
safety criteria.
Range
2.3
cylinder, regulator, gauges and accessories, valves, oxygen
compatibility/clean, labelling, blend analysis.
cylinder specifications, coding, stamping, O2 cleaning of
equipment.
Site selected is within limitations of client and meets industry technical and
safety criteria.
This unit standard is
Dive using EANx.
expiring
Outcome 3
Evidence requirements
3.1
Dive plan is adhered to.
3.2
Monitoring of depth and time meets EANx criteria and industry technical and
safety criteria.
3.3
Remedial action is taken to avoid hazards.
3.4
EANx dive practice is within recreational diving maximum limits and meets
industry technical and safety criteria.
Outcome 4
Disassemble and maintain equipment used for EANx dives.
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Evidence requirements
4.1
Positive pressure is maintained in cylinder and avoids entry of atmospheric air.
4.2
Regulator and gauges are disassembled to industry technical and safety
criteria.
Range
dust caps, contamination avoided, lubricant incompatibility.
4.3
Cylinder use meets industry technical and safety criteria.
4.4
Servicing and maintenance include parts compatible with elevated O 2 mix and
meet industry technical and safety criteria.
Replacement information
This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28414.
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
23 September 1996
31 December 2016
Revision
2
17 July 2001
31 December 2016
Review
3
20 November 2014
31 December 2016
This unit standard is
expiring
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0099
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.
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
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to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
This unit standard is
expiring
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