Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
MSL977008A Mapping and Delivery Guide
Apply specialised knowledge of inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy to analysis
Version 1.0
Issue Date: April 2024
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Unit of Competency | MSL977008A - Apply specialised knowledge of inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy to analysis |
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Description | This unit of competency covers the ability to analyse samples using instruments that use inductively coupled plasmas to produce excited atoms and ions that can be analysed using mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) or optical/atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES or ICP-AES). The unit includes establishing client needs for routine and non-routine samples, optimising enterprise procedures and instruments for specific samples, obtaining valid and reliable data and reporting test results. Personnel are required to recognise atypical test data/results and troubleshoot common analytical instrument and procedure problems and perform routine instrument maintenance. | ||
Employability Skills | This unit contains employability skills. | ||
Learning Outcomes and Application | This unit of competency is applicable to experienced laboratory technical officers/technicians, laboratory supervisors and technical specialists who conduct instrumental analysis in laboratories providing consultancy, research and development and quality assurance services. These services may be provided for a wide range of industry sectors, such as biomedical and forensic science (toxicology), environmental monitoring (soil and water), industrial analysis (cement, glasses, ceramics, metals and oil), geological analysis (ores, rocks, minerals and petroleum products) and food and beverage (trace metals) testing.Industry representatives have provided case studies to illustrate the practical application of this unit of competency and to show its relevance in a workplace setting, at the end of this unit of competency under the section 'This competency in practice'. | ||
Duration and Setting | X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting. |
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Competency Field |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
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Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Determine sample characteristics and appropriate analytical methods |
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Element: Prepare samples and standards |
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Element: Set up instrument and perform trial analysis |
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Element: Optimise instrument performance |
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Element: Perform analysis |
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Element: Perform routine maintenance and troubleshoot instruments |
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Element: Maintain a safe work environment |
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Element: Maintain laboratory records |
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