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Demonstrate knowledge of environmental controls for landfills
Level
5
Credits
15
Purpose
This unit standard is for people who manage or assist with the management
of landfill sites.
People credited with this unit standard are able to demonstrate knowledge of
environmental controls for landfills.
Subfield
Solid Waste
Domain
Solid Waste Disposal
Status
Registered
Status date
25 October 2007
Date version published
25 October 2007
Planned review date
31 December 2012
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and
industry.
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
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References relevant to this unit standard include:
Resource Management Act 1991;
regional and local authority requirements for waste disposal;
The New Zealand Waste Strategy 2002, Ministry for the Environment, available at
http://www.mfe.govt.nz; and
the following Ministry for the Environment guidelines available at
http://www.mfe.govt.nz:
ME257 Hazards of Burning at Landfills, December 1997;
ME389 Guide to Landfill Consent Conditions, May 2001;
ME510 Module 2 – Hazardous Waste Guidelines: Landfill Waste Acceptance Criteria
and Landfill Classification;
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ME637 Module 1 – Hazardous Waste Guidelines: Identification and record-keeping,
June 2002;
Landfill Guidelines – Towards Sustainable Waste Management in New Zealand
2000, Centre for Advanced Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand;
a site management plan.
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Definitions
Company procedures means 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.
Site management plan refers to documented guidelines and procedures for
operations at the site. It includes consent conditions and legislative requirements.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Demonstrate knowledge of environmental controls for landfills.
Performance criteria
1.1
The potential impacts on the environment from activities occurring at landfills
are identified, described, and explained in terms of controls.
Range
1.2
Potential impacts of adverse weather conditions at a landfill are predicted and
control systems are compared in terms of minimising adverse effects on the
local environment in accordance with the Resource Management Act.
Range
1.3
activities include – traffic, off-loading, waste processing;
impacts include but are not limited to – dust, odour, noise, detritus,
pests, fire, leachate.
impacts on – groundwater, surface water, air.
Systems for environmental stewardship at a landfill site are identified and
assessed for compliance with regional and local authority requirements.
Range
requirements include but are not limited to – resource consents,
land use consent, trade waste permits.
1.4
Monitoring of potential effects on the environment and actions to be taken in the
event of nearing or exceeding trigger levels are described in accordance with a
site management plan and company procedures.
1.5
Reporting and remedial measures for adverse effects on the environment are
explained in accordance with company procedures and regional and local
authority requirements.
Range
effects – leachate contaminating groundwater, dust, odour, litter,
pests, noise.
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Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, 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 NZQA 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 (MITO) info@mito.org.nz if
you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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