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Adjust the height of surface boxes for roading maintenance

Level / 2
Credits / 3

PurposePeople credited with this unit standard are able to: confirm requirements for adjusting the surface box; excavate and adjust the surface box and cover; place and compact the backfill material; and clear the worksite on completion of work.

Subfield / Highway Construction and Maintenance
Domain / Roading Maintenance
Status / Registered
Status date / 25 September 2006
Date version published / 25 September 2006
Planned review date / 31 December 2012
Entry information / Open.
Accreditation / Evaluation of documentation by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB) / Infrastructure ITO
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference / 0101

This AMAP can be accessed at

Special notes

1The following legislation and regulations must be complied with: Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992; and Health and Safety in Employment Regulations 1995.

2Assessment against this unit standard must take place in a workplace environment.

Assessment parameters will be dependent on company and site specific equipment, procedures, and practices. Practices must reflect industry best practice and comply with legislative requirements.

3Definitions

Company requirements include the policy, procedures, and methodologies of the company. They include legislative and regulatory requirements which may apply across the company or to a specific site. Requirements are documented in the company’s health and safety plans, traffic management plans, contract work programmes, quality assurance programmes, policies, and procedural documents.

Contract specifications include plans, diagrams, and special technical conditions. They do not include special administrative conditions.

Elements and performance criteria

Element 1

Confirm requirements for adjusting the surface box.

Performance criteria

1.1Site conditions are confirmed in accordance with company requirements.

Rangelocation, extent, surrounds, environmental conditions.

1.2Resources are confirmed with supervisor.

Rangematerials, equipment, workforce.

Element 2

Excavate and adjust the surface box and cover.

Performance criteria

2.1The pavement surface surrounding the service cover is cut to meet contract specifications.

2.2The area around surface boxes and covers is excavated, trimmed and shaped, and loose materials are removed in accordance with contract specifications.

Rangetools may include – pick, shovel, compressor, breaker, crowbar.

2.3The surface box is placed in position, and the level of the surface box and cover is adjusted to final position in accordance with contract specifications.

Element 3

Place and compact the backfill material.

Performance criteria

3.1Specified backfill materials are hand placed in accordance with contract specifications.

3.2Specified backfill materials are compacted in layers to match adjacent surfaces, in accordance with contract specifications.

Element 4

Clear the worksite on completion of work.

Performance criteria

4.1Surplus and loose materials are cleared from the site in accordance with company requirements.

4.2Temporary traffic control measures are removed in accordance with 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.

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 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2018