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Apply quality assurance practices in the roofing industry
Level
4
Credits
8
Purpose
This unit standard is for people who work in the roofing industry. People
credited with this unit standard are able to: identify quality assurance
requirements relating to site work; monitor quality of site work; and conduct
routine inspections of site work for roofing.
Subfield
Plumbing, Gasfitting and Drainlaying
Domain
Roofing
Status
Registered
Status date
27 October 2006
Date version published
27 October 2006
Planned review date
31 December 2011
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and
industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
The Skills Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0227
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes but is not limited to the Health and
Safety in Employment Act 1992, Building Act 2004.
2
Performance must comply with current legislation, regulations, and codes. For more
detailed information about which regulations and codes are relevant, please refer to
the assessors’ page of The Skills Organisation Ltd website http://www.skills.org.nz.
3
Definitions
company requirements include the policy, procedures, and methodologies of the
company. They include requirements documented in company and site health and
safety plans, quality assurance documents, and contract work programmes;
quality assurance requirements means all the planned and systematic activities that
meet a recognised and industry accepted set of standards and/or provide confidence
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to clients and other stakeholders that the construction project will fulfil requirements
for quality;
quality standards are typically described in specifications such as raw materials,
finishing and final product specifications and work procedures;
control points refer to those key points in a work process which must be monitored
and controlled;
routine inspections refer to visual inspections.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Identify quality assurance requirements relating to site work for roofing.
Performance criteria
1.1
Quality assurance requirements are identified in terms of their relationship to
site work.
1.2
The quality assurance personnel are identified in terms of their respective
responsibilities.
Range
1.3
quality assurance personnel include but are not limited to –
internal personnel, external auditors.
The requirements of internal and external customers are identified in terms of
their relationship to site work.
Range
internal customers may include but are not limited to – project
supervisor, company principal;
external customers may include but are not limited to – architect,
material manufacturers.
Element 2
Monitor quality of site work for roofing.
Performance criteria
2.1
Control points are monitored to confirm quality of service or output according to
company requirements.
Range
control points include but are not limited to – appraisal of
substrate, delivery of materials, design of as-built components,
manufacture of as-built components, installation of as-built
components, penetrations in watertight material, job completion.
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Element 3
Conduct routine inspections of site work for roofing.
Performance criteria
3.1
Materials, equipment, and outputs are inspected to confirm capability to meet
quality standards and company requirements.
3.2
Variation or common faults are identified in accordance with company
requirements.
3.3
Inspection results are recorded and remedial action is commissioned to meet
company requirements.
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 Skills Organisation info@skills.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes
to the content of this unit standard.
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