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Title
Instruct clients to complete a dive using Enriched Air Nitrox (EANx)
Level
6
Credits
4
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to instruct
clients to: plan an Enriched Air Nitrox (EANx) dive; prepare to
dive and dive using EANx; and disassemble and maintain
equipment used for EANx dives.
Classification
Diving > Diving - Instruction
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Critical health and
safety prerequisites
Unit 8270, Instruct clients on specialist dive courses, or
demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills.
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
Outcome 1
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Instruct clients to plan an EANx dive.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ identification of the
requirements of EANx use and hazards meets 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.
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ preparation of the dive
plan meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Outcome 2
Instruct clients to prepare to dive using EANx.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ selection of equipment
and blend meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Range
2.2
cylinder, regulator, gauges and accessories, valves, oxygen
compatibility and cleanliness, labelling, blend analysis.
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ maintenance of
equipment meets manufacturer’s specifications.
cylinder specifications, coding, stamping, oxygen cleaning of
This
unit standard is
equipment.
Instruction includes assessment
to ensure that clients’ selection of the dive site
expiring
is within limitations of the client and meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Range
2.3
Outcome 3
Instruct clients to dive using EANx.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients adhere to the dive plan.
3.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ monitoring of depth
and time meets EANx criteria and industry technical and safety criteria.
3.3
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients take remedial action to
avoid hazards.
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Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ EANx dive is within
recreational diving maximum limits and meets industry technical and safety
criteria.
Outcome 4
Instruct clients to disassemble and maintain equipment used for EANx dives.
Evidence requirements
4.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients maintain positive
pressure in the cylinder and avoid entry of atmospheric air.
4.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ disassembly of regulator
and gauges meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Range
dust caps, contamination avoided, lubricant incompatibility.
4.3
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ use of cylinder meets
industry technical and safety criteria.
4.4
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ service and maintenance
include parts compatible with elevated oxygen mix, according to industry
technical and safety criteria.
Replacement information
This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28435.
This unit standard is
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Dateexpiring Last Date for Assessment
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
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.
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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
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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