UETTDRRT28
Maintain overhead traction components and equipment


Application

This unit involves the skills and knowledge required to maintain and repair overhead traction electrical equipment, components and associated hardware in the electricity supply industry (ESI).

It includes repairing or replacing electrical components/equipment and associated hardware, undertaking safe working practices on or about the running line/track, isolation of systems and circuits for safe working, identifying and implementing road/rail management plans, and issuing/accepting electrical permits. It also includes inspecting and checking equipment, components and associated hardware are in a safe condition to test and/or return to service, re-commissioning tests of electrical equipment, components and associated hardware and updating of system data/maintenance records.

The application of the skills and knowledge described in this unit may require a licence/registration to practice in the workplace.

Other conditions may apply under state and territory legislative and regulatory licensing requirements which must be confirmed prior to commencing this unit.


Elements and Performance Criteria

ELEMENTS

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1

Prepare for maintenance of overhead traction equipment/components

1.1

Work schedules, construction plans, drawings, workplace procedures and material lists are received and confirmed

1.2

Job requirements and workplace procedures are identified and communicated with relevant personnel

1.3

Work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS), environmental and workplace procedures for the maintenance of overhead traction equipment/components are obtained and confirmed for the purposes of the work to be performed

1.4

Work is prioritised and sequenced for completion within acceptable timeframes following consultation with relevant personnel and in accordance with workplace procedures

1.5

Hazards are identified, WHS/OHS risks assessed and control measures identified in accordance with workplace procedures

1.6

Relevant work permits are obtained, understood and signed in accordance with workplace procedures

1.7

Plant, equipment, tools and personal protective equipment (PPE) required for work are identified, obtained and confirmed in working order

1.8

Worksite is prepared to minimise risk, damage to property, commerce and individuals in accordance with track protection officer and/or network control officer and workplace procedures

1.9

Traffic management plan is confirmed as being applied in accordance with workplace procedures

1.10

Environmental constraints applicable to work are identified and control measures applied

2

Perform maintenance of overhead traction equipment/components

2.1

WHS/OHS, sustainable energy and environmental principles and practices are monitored and followed to reduce incidents in accordance with workplace procedures

2.2

Requirements for lifting and/or climbing and/or working at heights and the use of power tools/equipment are followed in accordance with workplace procedures

2.3

Systems and circuits are checked, isolated and proved safe to work on in accordance with workplace procedures

2.4

Maintenance of overhead traction equipment/components are completed in agreed timeframes, to quality standards and with minimum waste in accordance with workplace procedures

2.5

Electrical components/equipment and associated hardware are confirmed as operating within normal operating parameters and in accordance with workplace procedures

2.6

Maintenance, including repair and/or replacement of overhead traction equipment/components, is in accordance with construction plans, drawings and workplace procedures

2.7

Unplanned events are responded to in accordance with workplace procedures

2.8

Quality checks of work, including visual inspections, are undertaken in accordance with workplace procedures

3

Complete maintenance of overhead traction equipment/components

3.1

Completed work is checked against work schedule, construction plans and drawings for compliance and anomalies are reported in accordance with workplace procedures

3.2

Worksite is rehabilitated, cleaned up and made safe in accordance with workplace procedures

3.3

Tools, equipment and surplus resources and materials are, where appropriate, cleaned, checked and returned to storage in accordance with workplace procedures

3.4

Relevant work permits are signed off after final inspections and the system is energised, tested and returned to service in accordance with workplace procedures

3.5

Work records, reports and/or documentation are completed in accordance with workplace procedures and relevant personnel notified

Foundation Skills

Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.


Range Statement

Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment.

Non-essential conditions may be found in the Companion Volume Implementation Guide.


Sectors

Not applicable.


Competency Field

Rail Traction