Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for installation
- Obtain relevant legislation, codes, regulations and standards for the given work
- Scope the work by obtaining project plan from appropriate personnel and arrange for site access to comply with security arrangements
- Notify appropriate personnel of identified safety hazards at the worksite
- Determine cable route and type of network cable equipment from project plan and identify and avoid other services
- Obtain plant, tools and safety equipment and material to perform tasks safely and efficiently
- Evaluate nature of job and infrastructure hierarchy from plan and obtain approval from customer on key features of installation to meet customer requirements
- Coordinate other parties to minimise disruption to services and down time
- Segregate incoming and outgoing cables to facilitate access and avoid overlaying and backtracking of cable
- Install required cable and equipment support structure
- Evaluate existing equipment support structure and develop a plan for additional support structure provisioning
- Install additional cable support, equipment support structure and cable runs according to manufacturer's specifications, industry practice and occupational health and safety (OHS) and environmental requirements
- Determine cable route between rack and sub-rack and cable termination point to comply with customer requirements, site limitations, equipment specifications and regulations
- Install cabling infrastructure to interface rack and subrack according to installation instructions
- Complete cabling requirements to support installation of equipment
- Install equipment and earthing protection
- Install lightning protection equipment where required, according to manufacturer's specifications and industry practice
- Install earthing protection and line conditioning where required, according to relevant Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), local power company and industry practice
- Install equipment component into rack and sub-rack and complete connections according to manufacturer's specifications and compliance with warranty requirements
- Perform tests
- Complete project documentation
- Install labels to new equipment and radiation warning signs, where required, according to enterprise guidelines practice
- Record test results for future reference, complete reports on equipment installation and amend design to reflect existing cable layout and equipment according to enterprise requirements
- Recover obsolete materials and return to appropriate point for disposal
- Restore site according to the requirements of enterprise or approving authority and to customer satisfaction
- Notify appropriate personnel of job completion and obtain sign off