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Describe non-electric fences, fence support materials, and safe practices in fencing
Level / 2Credits / 2
PurposePeople credited with this unit standard are able to describe: non-electric fence types and their suitability for stock type; fence support materials; and employer and employee health and safety requirements, safe handling methods, hazards in fencing, and safety aids and equipment.
Subfield / AgricultureDomain / Fencing
Status / Registered
Status date / 22 August 2008
Date version published / 16 April 2010
Planned review date / 31 December 2012
Entry information / Open.
Replacement information / This unit standard and unit standard 24837 replaced unit standard 19126.
Accreditation / Evaluation of documentation by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB) / Primary Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference / 0052
This AMAP can be accessed at
Special notes
1Product use manuals are available from manufacturers and should be consulted in all training situations.
2Legislation applicable to this unit standard includes the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, and its subsequent amendments.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Describe non-electric fence types and their suitability for stock type.
Rangemulti-wire, wire and batten, wire and dropper, post and rail; fabricated netting.
Performance criteria
1.1Non-electric types of fences are described in terms of their uses.
1.2Non-electric types of fences are described in terms of their suitability for stock type.
Element 2
Describe fence support materials.
Performance criteria
2.1Fence support materials are described in terms of their primary functions.
Rangestrainers, angles, posts, battens, rails.
2.2Staples and nails are described in terms of their uses.
Rangestaples – post, batten, barbed, plain;
nails – galvanised, flathead.
Element 3
Describe employer and employee health and safety requirements, safe handling methods, hazards in fencing, and safety aids and equipment.
Performance criteria
3.1Responsibilities of employer and employee are described in accordance with the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992.
3.2Manual handling methods are described in terms of their safety for given situations.
Rangelifting, carrying, dragging.
3.3Fencing hazards are identified and described in terms of personal and stock injury, and associated cause, effect, and avoidance measures.
Rangewire, staples, tools, electrical lines, weather.
3.4Common safety aids and equipment are identified and described in terms of their use.
Rangethree of – ear-muffs, gloves, boots, first aid kit, eye protection or goggles.
Please note
Providers must be 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 accredited by NZQA 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.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Primary Industry Training Organisation if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2018