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Maintain roading kerb lines and channels

Level / 3
Credits / 5

Purpose People credited with this unit standard are able to: confirm requirements for the maintenance of kerb line and channel; clean and inspect kerb lines and channel; repair kerb line and channel; reinstate the surrounding surface to kerb line and channel; 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.
Replacement information / This unit standard and unit standard 22287 replaced unit standard 11318.
Accreditation / Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB) / Infrastructure ITO
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference / 0101

This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.

Special notes

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

2 Assessment 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.

3 Definitions

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.

Materials include concrete, concrete blocks, masonry, stone.

4 Within this unit standard the term kerb line and channel is used to cover the maintenance and repair of kerb and channel, nib, dish channel, mountable kerb, kerb blocks.

5 Assessment is limited to the coverage of one option throughout the unit standard.

Elements and performance criteria

Element 1

Confirm requirements for the maintenance of kerb line and channel.

Performance criteria

1.1 Site conditions are confirmed in accordance with company requirements.

Range location, extent, drainage, environmental conditions.

1.2 Resources are confirmed in accordance with company requirements.

Range materials, equipment, workforce.

Element 2

Clean and inspect kerb lines and channel.

Performance criteria

2.1 Grit, debris, and detritus are removed from kerb lines and channel in accordance with company requirements.

2.2 Kerb lines and channel are inspected and the extent of repairs required identified in accordance with company requirements.

Element 3

Repair kerb line and channel.

Performance criteria

3.1 Damaged sections are removed in accordance with company requirements.

3.2 Foundation is prepared and lines and levels are set in accordance with company requirements.

3.3 Form work and concrete or preformed units are placed to line and level in accordance with company requirements.

Element 4

Reinstate the surrounding surface to kerb line and channel.

Performance criteria

4.1 The surrounds of kerb and channel are reinstated in accordance with company requirements.

Range pavement to channel, footpath or berm to kerb.

Element 5

Clear the worksite on completion of work.

Performance criteria

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

5.2 Temporary 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.

Comments on this unit standard

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Ó New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2014