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Level 3
Credits 2
Purpose People credited with this unit standard are able to identify residential property security risks; and recommend security solutions.
Subfield Mechanical Engineering
Domain
Status
Status date
Date version published
Planned review date
Entry information
Locksmithing
Registered
19 May 2006
19 May 2006
31 December 2011
Recommended: Unit 12925, Demonstrate knowledge of locksmithing ethics , or demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills.
Accreditation Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB) Competenz
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference 0013
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do
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Special notes
1 Definition
Worksite procedures refers to the documented and/or verbal procedures that include: worksite rules, business procedures, equipment operating instructions, quality management systems, and health and safety requirements.
2 All work practices must meet recognised codes of practice and documented worksite safety procedures (where these exceed any applicable code) for personal, product, and worksite safety, and must comply with obligations required under current legislation.
3 Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes but is not limited to the Health and
Safety in Employment Act 1992.
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4 Security and risk advice, as a locksmith, is limited to basic advice on simple things that can be done to reduce risk and improve a householder’s security and property risks. This does not include advice on the type or style of locking devices that may be available for residential premises. There is another unit standard, Unit 12912,
Design residential and light commercial locking systems , that covers locking device design for residential and light commercial premises.
Element 1
Identify residential property security risks.
Performance criteria
1.1
1.2
Visual deterrents and obstructions are identified that may pose a security risk.
Security problems are identified, relative to access to the property, that may pose personal risk.
Range may include but is not limited to – lighting, trees, shrubbery, paths, building location.
Element 2
Recommend security solutions.
Performance criteria
2.1 The available security product range is identified and described in terms of purpose and function.
2.2
2.3
The available security services are described in terms of cost and performance.
Recommendations are made that match the product range with the identified security risks.
2.4 Recommendations are made that integrate existing security services with the identified security risks.
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 qualifications@competenz.org.nz
if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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