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Apply zero waste principles in a workplace
Level
2
Credits
4
Purpose
This unit standard is for people working in any industry.
People credited with this unit standard are able to apply zero waste principles
in a workplace.
Subfield
Resource Recovery
Domain
Zero Waste
Status
Registered
Status date
26 January 2007
Date version published
26 January 2007
Planned review date
31 December 2012
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation by NZQA.
Standard setting body (SSB)
NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation (Incorporated)
(MITO)
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0114
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
References relevant to this unit standard include but are not limited to The New Zealand
Waste Strategy: Towards zero waste and a sustainable New Zealand 2002 Ministry for the
Environment, available at http://www.mfe.govt.nz.
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Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Apply zero waste principles in a workplace.
Performance criteria
1.1
Recoverable resources are identified in terms of workplace waste stream.
Range
1.2
Application outlines practical steps for the reduction, and/or reuse, and/or
recovery of resources.
Range
1.3
evidence is required for at least five resources.
Application sorts recoverable resources within a workplace.
Range
1.4
resources include but are not limited to – solid waste, liquid waste,
water, energy; evidence is required of any two streams.
at least three of – paper, plastic, glass, metal, food, one other.
Application ensures that waste is reduced or eliminated.
Range
involving – own behaviour, consultation with employer and/or
fellow employees.
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.
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 NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation (Incorporated) (MITO)
info@mito.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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