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Title / Maintain security and deal with emergencies in recreation facilities
Level / 3 / Credits / 3
Purpose / This unit standard is intended for a person working in a recreation facility.
People credited with this unit standard are able to describe the security and emergency needs and procedures of a facility, and follow established facility security and emergency procedures.
Classification / Recreation and Sport > Recreation and Sport - Core Skills
Available grade / Achieved
Explanatory notes
1Competence in this unit standard requires knowledge of the hierarchy of controls outlined in the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 (HSE Act): elimination of significant hazards; isolation of significant hazards when elimination is not possible; and minimisation of significant hazards where elimination and isolation are not possible.
2Definitions
Clearing out refers to the process of ensuring that people have vacated a facility by checking facility areas and access ways in either an ordinary closing or an emergency.
Facility refers to a workplace where the candidate is working, or the workplace in which their training placement is occurring, and may include but is not limited to –fitness centre, recreation centre, aquatic centre, indoor stadium, outdoor sports area, snowsport area, museum, library, theatre, hall, marae, park, reserve, information centre, education centre, or café. The facility must be one that conforms to the HSE Act and the Building Act 2004.
Opening and closing, in reference to a facility, refer respectively to the process of preparing a facility for business operation at the start of a business period and closing it down and ensuring that it is secure at the end of a business period.
Organisational requirements refer to the organisation’s policies and procedures and include compliance with any applicable legislation, standards, and codes.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Describe the security and emergency needs and procedures of a facility.
Evidence requirements
1.1Threats to staff, users, equipment, property, and security of a recreation facility are identified.
Rangethreats may include but are not limited to – fire, civil emergency, assault, harassment, privacy invasion, accusations of inappropriate behaviour, inappropriate behaviour, theft, incidental damage, break in, malicious damage.
1.2Daily management procedures and countermeasures for the identified threats are described.
Rangeprocedures and countermeasures may include but are not limited to – facility design including egress, emergency procedures, access control (such as member identification, visitor sign-in, entry instructions, internal locking), supervision, public address systems, signage, sprinkler systems, wardens, storage provision, access control, signage, supervision, cash handling and storage, access control (business hours and after hours), key holding systems, opening and locking up procedures, alarm and surveillance systems.
1.3Description of facility opening and closing procedures aligns with facility security standards.
Rangeprocedures may include but are not limited to – physical access, alarm systems, electrical systems (such as lighting, heating, ventilation, audio-visual), reception systems, cash-handling (on premises), staffing (presence, responsibilities), clearing out.
Outcome 2
Follow established facility security and emergency procedures.
Evidence requirements
2.1Facility procedures and guidelines for dealing with and reporting security related incidents are identified in accordance with organisational requirements.
Rangeincident types – facility security, theft, assault, harassment, client and/or staff complaints, security equipment and/or system damage or failure (such as lock, alarms, keys lost or taken), obscene and/or threatening behaviours including phone calls.
2.2Facility emergency procedures for evacuation are followed in accordance with organisational requirements.
Rangestaff assignments, sequence of areas, instructions to persons, exit routes (main, alternative), assembly points.
2.3Procedures for communicating with local emergency services are followed in terms of the type of service and their information requirements.
Rangeservices include – fire, ambulance, police, electrical contractor, plumbing contractor, telecommunications contractor;
information – phone numbers, information required by emergency service (such as type of emergency, cause, number of people involved, injuries, address, street access).
Planned review date / 31 December 2012Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process / Version / Date / Last Date for AssessmentRegistration / 1 / 27 June 1996 / 31 December 2012
Revision / 2 / 22 February 2000 / 31 December 2012
Review / 3 / 22 January 2002 / 31 December 2012
Review / 4 / 12 February 2010 / 31 December 2012
Rollover and Revision / 5 / 20 May 2011 / N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference / 0099
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Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (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 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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Skills Active Aotearoa LimitedSSB Code 101576 / New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2018