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Title / Demonstrate understanding of environmental risk management and minimise negative environmental effects forhorticulture
Level / 4 / Credits / 15
Purpose / This unit standard is for people working in the horticulture industry.
People credited with this unit standard are able to:demonstrate understanding of industry recommendations for environmental risk management; and implement and monitor horticultural process control measures to minimise negative environmental effects, in a horticulture production system.
Classification / HorticultureProduction Horticulture
Available grade / Achieved
Explanatory notes
1Evidence requirements must be consistent with all relevant legislationand subsequent amendments; this includes but is not limited to:
- Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
- Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996.
2Definitions
Control measures are steps taken to minimise negative environmental effects.
Environmental risk is actual or potential threat of adverse effects arising out of an organisation’s activitieson living organisms and the environmentby factors such as effluents, emissions, wastes, and resource depletion.
Industry recommendations refer to industry accepted guidelines for managing the environment, for example:
- The EcoHort guidelines, available via:
- Farm Environment Plan Template for Arable Enterprises 2015, available via
A process is the flow of steps that are undertaken to produce a crop.
Regulatory requirements are local, national, or international requirements with legal status.
Understanding means that there should be evidence of a learner’s thorough comprehension of a topic. A learner with a good understanding of a topic should have applied, or should be able to apply what they have learnt to a workplace situation and will be able to alter their practices to the different contexts they are applying their learning to. Assessors should be confident that the learner’s understanding is embedded in their practices and behaviour.
Workplace procedures refer to verbal or written instructions to staff on procedures for implementing and monitoring sustainable horticulture production. Workplace procedures must comply with health and safety legislation and be consistent with the workplace health and safety plan.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Demonstrate understanding of industry recommendations for environmental risk management in a horticulture production system.
Evidence requirements
1.1Describe industry recommendations for managing environmental risk.
Rangewater, pesticides, other chemicals, one other.
1.2Assess environmental risk for two workplace processes.
Outcome 2
Implement and monitor horticultural process control measures to minimise negative environmental effectsin a horticulture production system.
Rangetwo control measures, two processes.
Evidence requirements
2.1Supervise the implementation of control measures in accordance with industry recommendations and regulatory requirements.
2.2Supervise the monitoring of control measures in accordance with industry recommendations and regulatory requirements.
2.3Report on monitoring of control measures in accordance with workplace procedures.
Planned review date / 31 December 2022Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process / Version / Date / Last Date for AssessmentRegistration / 1 / 16 February 2017 / N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference / 0052
This CMR can be accessed at
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 (CMRs). 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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Primary Industry Training OrganisationSSB Code 101558 / New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2018