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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Plan and prepare for work
   • Conduct risk assessment for environmental and safety factors.
   • Determine work requirements, materials and configuration from plans, specifications, instructions and/or organisational procedures.
   • Check coordination issues with relevant personnel, including isolations, licences and permits to work.
   • Identify networks system operation requirements.
   • Arrange remove site protection.
2. Conduct maintenance
   • Isolate the work area.
   • Determine appropriate repair method from job specifications and instructions.
   • Maintain and repair structural damage to assets.
   • Check maintenance and repairs to assets to ensure specifications are met.
   • Restore work site to meet environmental and organisational requirements.
3. Review, report and record work
   • Check, tag and report faulty equipment and tools.
   • Store equipment, tools and materials.
   • Complete and process workplace records.
4. Plan and prepare for work
   • Conduct risk assessment for environmental and safety factors.
   • Determine work requirements, materials and configuration from plans, specifications, instructions and/or organisational procedures.
   • Check coordination issues with relevant personnel, including isolations, licences and permits to work.
   • Identify networks system operation requirements.
   • Arrange remove site protection.
5. Conduct maintenance
   • Isolate the work area.
   • Determine appropriate repair method from job specifications and instructions.
   • Maintain and repair structural damage to assets.
   • Check maintenance and repairs to assets to ensure specifications are met.
   • Restore work site to meet environmental and organisational requirements.
6. Review, report and record work
   • Check, tag and report faulty equipment and tools.
   • Store equipment, tools and materials.
   • Complete and process workplace records.

Range Statement

Network assets includes:

water mains connections pump stations

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. The candidate must be assessed on at least two of the network assets listed in the Range of Conditions. If not otherwise specified the candidate must demonstrate evidence of performance of the following on at least one occasion.

planning work site i.e. personnel, equipment, materials

requesting permits, approvals, other utilities diagrams and maps

conducting risk implementing appropriate environmental controls

using tools and specific wastewater equipment

selecting and applying PPE

preserving personal safety

performing work-related calculations

identifying and responding to operational problems including main, connection chokes, pump stations and faults

using communication tools including phones and laptops

interpreting plans, instructions and procedures

determining location, size, utilities, services from plans, specifications and organisational procedures

applying excavation techniques

maintaining and repairing wastewater pipes and fittings by:

undertaking excavation

clearing chokes

undertaking CCTV inspection for roots intrusion, storm water ingress and infiltration

jet foaming

jet cleaning

installing connections

installing pipes and fittings

measuring and cutting pipes

making joints

selecting and placing bedding and backfill material

locating and repairing chokes

repairing valves

controlling flows in gravity networks

maintaining and repairing structures by:

undertaking excavation

repairing access chambers

maintaining pump stations

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the depth of knowledge demonstrated must be appropriate to the job context of the candidate.

system hydraulics basics

infiltration

roots intrusion

storm water ingress

excavation techniques

ground support systems

environmental and health aspects and impacts

relevant legislation, policies and procedures

safety data sheets (SDS)

landscape and ground structure of work area

equipment operation, capacity and limitations

control systems

pipe systems and installation requirements

characteristics of pipe materials

testing and sampling systems

methods of repairing concrete, brick and stone structures

concrete placement techniques, including compaction

relevant utilities and service bodies to identify allocation of road reserve

effects of weather and conditions on construction site or plant

requirements around excavation

Cathodic Protection, Denso wrap, Stopaq

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