NZQA registered unit standard
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Title
Demonstrate sweeping, chip-spreading, and associated handwork
skills for chipseal surfacing
Level
2
Credits
15
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify,
assess, control, and monitor health and safety hazards and
adverse effects on the environment of chipseal handwork
operations; prepare surfaces by hand for chipsealing; spread
sealing chip by hand; and sweep and clean up the site.
Classification
Pavement Surfacing > Chipseal Surfacing
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Critical health and
safety prerequisites
Unit 20455, Demonstrate basic knowledge of safety relating to
bituminous materials, or demonstrate equivalent knowledge
and skills.
Explanatory notes
1
The following legislation and requirements apply to this unit standard, and must be
complied with:
Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992;
Health and Safety in Employment Regulations 1995;
Chipsealing in New Zealand, New Zealand Transport Agency, available at
http://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/chipsealing-new-zealand-manual/;
The Bitumen Safety Handbook, Roading New Zealand, available at
http://www.roadingnz.org.nz/.
Any legislation or other requirements superseding any of the above will apply,
pending the review of this unit standard.
2
Personal protective equipment must be used throughout operations in accordance
with company procedures. For this unit standard it includes but is not limited to –
overalls, safety vest, eye protection, hat, safety boots.
3
Assessment against this unit standard must be based on evidence from a workplace
context.
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Definitions
Company procedures refers to all documented policies, procedures, and
methodologies of the candidate’s employer at the time of training including but not
limited to those relating to health, safety, environment, quality, and operations.
Job requirements take account of site conditions to meet contract specifications, and
accord with procedures and work instructions written in quality manuals.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Identify, assess, control, and monitor health and safety hazards and adverse effects on the
environment of chipseal handwork operations.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Health hazards of chipseal work are identified and the procedures and
equipment for controlling them are described in accordance with own level of
responsibility.
1.2
Safety hazards of chipseal work are identified and the procedures and
equipment for controlling them are described in accordance with own level of
responsibility.
1.3
Adverse effects on the environment associated with chipseal work are identified
and the procedures and equipment for controlling them are described in
accordance with own level of responsibility.
1.4
Health and safety hazards are assessed, controlled, and monitored in
accordance with own level of responsibility.
Range
1.5
may include but is not limited to – noise, dust, hazardous
materials, obstructions, people in the vicinity, personal injury.
Adverse effects on the environment are assessed, controlled, and monitored in
accordance with own level of responsibility.
Range
examples include but are not limited to – noise, dust, emissions,
hazardous materials, spills.
Outcome 2
Prepare surfaces by hand for chipsealing.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Surfaces and services needing protection from paving operations are identified,
protected, and marked in accordance with job requirements.
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2.2
Surfaces not accessible by rotary broom, or surfaces requiring additional
treatment, are cleaned as necessary and prepared by hand broom in
accordance with job requirements.
surfaces – newly prepared first coats, previously surfaced second
coats or reseals, irregular, patch repaired.
Range
2.3
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Minor preseal repairs are carried out in accordance with job requirements.
Outcome 3
Spread sealing chip by hand.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Chip is spread by shovel over sprayed bitumen to achieve uniform spread to a
depth of one stone layer.
3.2
Areas where chip application is deficient or excessive are identified and
remedied to achieve uniform spread of chip in accordance with job
requirements.
Outcome 4
Sweep and clean up the site.
Evidence requirements
4.1
Surplus chip is swept and removed from work site in accordance with job
requirements.
includes but is not limited to – areas not accessible by mechanical
sweeping equipment.
Range
4.2
Temporary protection is removed from surfaces and services in accordance
with company procedures.
Planned review date
31 December 2016
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
24 March 1998
31 December 2013
Revision
2
5 January 1999
31 December 2013
Review
3
27 October 2005
31 December 2013
Review
4
15 March 2012
N/A
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Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0101
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.
Comments on this unit standard
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the content of this unit standard.
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