NZQA Expiring unit standard 8281 version 4 Page 1 of 3 Title Instruct clients on underwater video diving Level 6 Credits 5 Purpose People credited with this unit standard are able to instruct clients to prepare for an underwater video dive, and instruct clients to perform an underwater video dive. Classification Diving > Diving - Instruction 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 Recreational Training Council (NZURTC) or equivalent, as determined by the Sport Fitness and Recreation Industry Training Organisation. Explanatory notes 1 Industry technical and safety criteria are specified in the training manuals of the agencies approved by the Sport Fitness and Recreation Industry Training Organisation (Sfrito). 2 All workplace diving practice must comply with the requirements of the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 and Health and Safety in Employment Regulations 1995. All practice must also comply with Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001 and the Occupational Safety and Health guidelines for Occupational Diving. 3 All training providers assessing against any instruction diving unit standard must ensure that the training is conducted by a qualified instructor currently registered with one of the listed agencies: National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI), Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), Scuba Schools International (SSI), Confédération Mondiale des Activitiés Subaquatiques (CMAS), International Diving Educators Association (IDEA), or an equivalent, determined by Sfrito, that meets the requirements of the Recreational Scuba Training Council (RSTC), the candidate’s instructor must provide training in accordance with the standards and procedures of the respective training agency. This unit standard is expiring Outcomes and evidence requirements Skills Active Aotearoa Limited SSB Code 101576 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016 NZQA Expiring unit standard 8281 version 4 Page 2 of 3 Outcome 1 Instruct clients to prepare for an underwater video dive. Evidence requirements 1.1 Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ selection of underwater video equipment meets industry technical and safety criteria. Range camera, strobe, aiming lights, trays, arms, sealing rings, recharging systems, film, maintenance kit. 1.2 Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ selection of a site for underwater video diving takes into account the subject, access, environmental conditions, and hazards. 1.3 Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ description of potential underwater video hazards meets industry technical and safety criteria. Range 1.4 Instruction includes assessment to ensure clients’ familiarity with the principles of video composition. Range 1.5 nitrogen narcosis, decompression illness, barotrauma, environmental damage, equipment flooding or malfunction, mobility, dexterity, corrosion. definition, image completeness, foreground, background, subject direction and position, lighting, contrast. Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ pre-dive and post-dive care of equipment meets industry technical and safety criteria. tools, cleaning, lubrication, sealing rings, batteries, electronics, This unit lens, strobe, camera.standard is expiring Range Outcome 2 Instruct clients to perform an underwater video dive. Evidence requirements 2.1 Clients are instructed on how their behaviour can impact on the environment and how to limit that impact. Range 2.2 diver propulsion, buoyancy control, body positioning. Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ behaviour limits the negative impact of environmental conditions on the video footage. Range suspended particles, light loss, colour absorption. Skills Active Aotearoa Limited SSB Code 101576 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016 NZQA Expiring unit standard 8281 version 4 Page 3 of 3 2.3 Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ video footage using strobe lighting minimises backscatter. 2.4 Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ completed video footage is exposed and focussed to the client’s and instructor’s satisfaction. Replacement information This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard 28424. 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 26 July 2005 31 December 2016 Review 4 20 November 2014 31 December 2016 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. This unit standard is expiring Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards. 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. Skills Active Aotearoa Limited SSB Code 101576 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016