28193 Use Drawings, Sketches, Schedules and Specifications in the Electricity Supply Industry

Explanatory notes

1 This unit standard is intended for, but not restricted to, workplace assessment. The range statements within the unit standard can be applied according to enterprise specific equipment, procedures and processes.

2 Safety of personnel and plant must be a priority throughout the assessment. If the safety requirements are not met the assessment must stop and the candidate will be assessed as not yet competent.

3 Performance and work practices in relation to the outcomes and evidence requirements must comply with all current legislation, especially the Electricity Act 1992 and any subsequent amendments, and any regulations, codes of practice recognised under that statute, Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, the Resource Management Act 1991, and their subsequent amendments, electricity supply industry codes of practice and documented enterprise procedures. These include, Safety Manual – Electricity Industry (SM-EI) (2004) Wellington: Electricity Engineers’ Association.

A full list of current legislation and industry codes is available from:

Infrastructure Industry Training Organisation

PO Box 1245

HAMILTON.

4 The phrase in accordance with industry requirements is implicit in all outcomes and evidence requirements in this unit standard.

5 Definitions

Industry requirements include all asset owner requirements; manufacturers’ specifications; and enterprise requirements which cover the documented workplace policies, procedures, specifications, business, and quality management requirements relevant to the workplace in which assessment is carried out.

Asset owner refers to the owner of an electricity supply network that takes its point of supply from Transpower NZ, and delivers electricity to industrial, commercial and residential customers.

Asset owner standards are the approved documented work site methods for carrying out work on an electrical supply network to the standard required by the asset owner.

6 Unless stated, evidence must be produced demonstrating having been involved in at least three different workplace task activities requiring the skills detailed within this unit standard.

7 This unit standard covers production of plan of works and interpretation of engineering drawings, sketches, schedules and specification used within the electricity supply industry.

Outcomes and evidence requirements

Outcome1

Prepare a plan of works using drawings, diagram, schedules and manuals.

Evidence requirements

1.1 Establish Occupational Health and Safety risk control measures and procedures for the work to be undertaken.

1.2 Extract any necessary technical information from drawings, diagrams, schedules or manuals determined from the nature of work to be undertaken.

1.3 Established guidelines and procedures that are to be followed from drawings, diagrams, schedules or manuals for the work to be undertaken.

1.4 Resources required to implement plan are identified and forwarded to appropriate person(s) in accordance with established procedures.

Outcome 2

Produce freehand sketches for ‘as built’ electricity installations.

Range sketches may include but are not limited to – cable location plans, as built, standard enterprise drawings, existing underground services plans, overhead line designs, reticulation designs, substation designs, protection system designs.

Evidence requirements

2.1 Site to be sketched is identified and measured.

2.2 Sketches are produced using drawings conventions and symbols.

2.3 Site dimensions and related notes are recorded.

Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions

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.

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