Sub-Field: Footwear and Leather Trades

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level: 2

credit: 3

planned review date: November 2005

sub-field: Footwear and Leather Trades

purpose: People credited with this unit standard are able to describe and set up stamping machinery and equipment, and produce embossed and foil stamped work to specified industry performance standards and work place quality standards. This unit standard is for production operatives in the footwear and allied trades.

entry information: Open.

accreditation option: Evaluation of documentation by NZQA and industry.

moderation option: A centrally established and directed national moderation system has been set up by Competenz.

special notes: Specified industry performance is 55% BSI performance or equivalent. BSI Performance is the British Standards Institute internationally recognised performance system (BS3138) where 100% is the standard expected from a competent fully qualified performer using the correct methods and taking the allowed rest, working briskly and as though on an incentive. Other comparable rating or performance systems such as the 60/80 system are acceptable, with the appropriate performance adjustment.

Company safety requirements conform to the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992.

Elements and Performance Criteria

element 1

Describe and set up stamping machinery and equipment.

Range: uppers – embossing, match mark, lining stamp, sock stamp;

bottom stock – foil stamping, heat embossing.

performance criteria

1.1 The purposes of stamping are described.

1.2 Machinery and equipment are set up to product specifications and company standards.

Range: pressure, temperature, dwell.

1.3 Foil types match job specification.

element 2

Produce work.

Range: embossed and/or foil stamped.

performance criteria

2.1 Work is completed to specified industry performance standards.

2.2 Work is completed to company quality standards.

2.3 Documentation is completed to company requirements and practice.

2.4 Work practices meet company safety requirements.

2.5 Material utilisation is consistent with company requirements and practice.

2.6 Waste is disposed of according to company requirements and practice.

Comments on this unit standard

Please contact Competenz if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.

Please Note

Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority or a delegated inter-institutional body before they can register 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 providers wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.

This unit standard is covered by AMAP 0030 which can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.

Ó New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2013