NZQA registered unit standard
23340 version 2
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Title
Describe a type of special hazardous waste and explain safe
methods for its collection and storage
Level
2
Purpose
Credits
3
This unit standard is for people working in the specialist area of
hazardous substance resource recovery and waste disposal.
People credited with this unit standard are able to describe a
type of special hazardous waste received for treatment or
disposal and explain safe methods for collecting and storing the
special hazardous waste.
Classification
Solid Waste > Hazardous and Special Waste Management
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
References relevant to this unit standard include where relevant:
Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996;
Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992;
Hazardous Substances (Classes 6, 8, and 9 Controls) Regulations 2001;
Hazardous Substances (Classifications) Regulations 2001;
Hazardous Substances (Disposal) Regulations 2001;
Hazardous Substances (Packaging) Regulations 2001;
Health and Safety in Employment (Asbestos) Regulations 1998;
Radiation Protection Regulations 1982;
NZS 5433:1999 Transport of Dangerous Goods on Land;
Land Transport Rule: Dangerous Goods 2005;
Approved Code of Practice for the Management of Substances Hazardous to Health
in the Place of Work, Occupational Safety and Health Service, available at
http://www.business.govt.nz/worksafe/ (WorkSafe NZ);
International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code (IMDG Code), 2012 International
Maritime Organisation available at
http://www.imo.org/Publications/Pages/Home.aspx;
material safety data sheets.
2
Assessment against this unit standard excludes clinical waste and the transport of
hazardous waste by road.
3
Evidence is required for one type of special hazardous waste.
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Definitions
Company procedures mean the documented methods for performing work activities
and include health and safety, environmental, and quality management requirements.
They may refer to manuals, codes of practice, or policy statements.
Special hazardous waste means harmful waste that is prohibited, by central or local
government regulation, from disposal at a landfill. It includes waste that is
flammable, toxic, ecotoxic, spontaneously combustible, corrosive, or radioactive, but
excludes explosives. The treatment and disposal of special hazardous waste is
restricted to specialist hazardous waste facilities. For this unit standard, special
hazardous waste substances may include but are not limited to – spent batteries,
asbestos, agrichemical waste, quarantine waste, electrical transformers containing
polychlorinated biphenyls.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Describe a type of special hazardous waste received for treatment or disposal.
Evidence requirements
1.1
The description identifies characteristics of the special hazardous waste in
terms of physical and chemical properties.
Range
1.2
The description identifies the constituents of the special hazardous waste and
describes them in terms of their pan-life cycle.
Range
1.3
may include but is not limited to – volatility, response when wet.
evidence is required of at least three constituents.
The description identifies and explains hazards and handling precautions for the
special hazardous waste in accordance with material safety data sheets and
company procedures.
Range
evidence is required of three hazardous substance classes.
Outcome 2
Explain safe methods for collecting and storing the special hazardous waste.
Range
the special hazardous waste described in outcome 1.
Evidence requirements
2.1
The collection and storage of the special hazardous waste are explained in
terms of mandatory requirements.
Range
mandatory requirements may include – legislation, regulations,
bylaws, codes of practice, certification, registration.
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2.2
Safe methods for collecting the special hazardous waste are explained in
accordance with company procedures.
may include but is not limited to – designated area, container,
quantity, segregation, item identification, documentation,
emergency procedures.
Range
2.3
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Safe methods for storing the special hazardous waste are explained in
accordance with company procedures and material safety data sheets.
storage – temporary, long-term;
may include but is not limited to – designated area, container,
quantity, segregation, storage identification, documentation,
emergency procedures.
Range
Planned review date
31 December 2019
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
25 October 2007
31 December 2017
Review
2
16 April 2015
N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0114
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
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation
(Incorporated) (MITO)
SSB Code 101542
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA registered unit standard
23340 version 2
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Comments on this unit standard
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