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Evidence Guide: PMAOPS201 - Operate fluid flow equipment

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PMAOPS201 - Operate fluid flow equipment

What evidence can you provide to prove your understanding of each of the following citeria?

Prepare for work

  1. Receive and give shift handover
  2. Identify work requirements
  3. Identify and control hazards
  4. Coordinate with appropriate personnel
  5. Check for recent work undertaken on plant item
  6. Note any outstanding/incomplete work
  7. Check operational status of fluid flow equipment
Receive and give shift handover

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Identify work requirements

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Identify and control hazards

Completed
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Coordinate with appropriate personnel

Completed
Date:

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Check for recent work undertaken on plant item

Completed
Date:

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Note any outstanding/incomplete work

Completed
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Check operational status of fluid flow equipment

Completed
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Operate pumps

  1. Identify the type of pump
  2. Start up and shut down pump as required
  3. Adjust flow and head/pressure as appropriate to type of pump
  4. Complete routine checks and reports and take appropriate action as required
Identify the type of pump

Completed
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Start up and shut down pump as required

Completed
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Adjust flow and head/pressure as appropriate to type of pump

Completed
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Complete routine checks and reports and take appropriate action as required

Completed
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Operate pump drivers

  1. Monitor critical variables such as amps, temperature and vibration
  2. Keep critical variables in range
  3. Recognise trends/patterns which indicate a potential or actual problem with the pump driver
  4. Take action to ensure driver as required
Monitor critical variables such as amps, temperature and vibration

Completed
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Keep critical variables in range

Completed
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Recognise trends/patterns which indicate a potential or actual problem with the pump driver

Completed
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Take action to ensure driver as required

Completed
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Operate valves

  1. Identify the type of valve
  2. Operate valve in a manner appropriate to the valve type
  3. Complete routine checks and reports and take appropriate action as required
Identify the type of valve

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Operate valve in a manner appropriate to the valve type

Completed
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Complete routine checks and reports and take appropriate action as required

Completed
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Recognise and take appropriate action on abnormal fluid system situations

  1. Monitor fluid flow system frequently and critically throughout shift using measured/indicated data and smell, sight, sound and feel as appropriate
  2. Identify impacts of any changes upstream and downstream
  3. Recognise situations which may require action
  4. Resolve routine problems
  5. Take actions on other abnormal situations to make safe and have the situation resolved
Monitor fluid flow system frequently and critically throughout shift using measured/indicated data and smell, sight, sound and feel as appropriate

Completed
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Identify impacts of any changes upstream and downstream

Completed
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Recognise situations which may require action

Completed
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Resolve routine problems

Completed
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Take actions on other abnormal situations to make safe and have the situation resolved

Completed
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Isolate and de-isolate equipment

  1. Complete any required pre-start checks
  2. Start up/shut down/changeover fluid flow equipment according to the equipment type and duty in liaison with other personnel
  3. Isolate equipment
  4. Make safe for required work
  5. Check plant is ready to be returned to service
  6. De-isolate and prepare plant for return to service
Complete any required pre-start checks

Completed
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Start up/shut down/changeover fluid flow equipment according to the equipment type and duty in liaison with other personnel

Completed
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Isolate equipment

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Make safe for required work

Completed
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Check plant is ready to be returned to service

Completed
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De-isolate and prepare plant for return to service

Completed
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Assessed

Teacher: ___________________________________ Date: _________

Signature: ________________________________________________

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Instructions to Assessors

Evidence Guide

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

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

1

Prepare for work

1.1

Receive and give shift handover

1.2

Identify work requirements

1.3

Identify and control hazards

1.4

Coordinate with appropriate personnel

1.5

Check for recent work undertaken on plant item

1.6

Note any outstanding/incomplete work

1.7

Check operational status of fluid flow equipment

2

Operate pumps

2.1

Identify the type of pump

2.2

Start up and shut down pump as required

2.3

Adjust flow and head/pressure as appropriate to type of pump

2.4

Complete routine checks and reports and take appropriate action as required

3

Operate pump drivers

3.1

Monitor critical variables such as amps, temperature and vibration

3.2

Keep critical variables in range

3.3

Recognise trends/patterns which indicate a potential or actual problem with the pump driver

3.4

Take action to ensure driver as required

4

Operate valves

4.1

Identify the type of valve

4.2

Operate valve in a manner appropriate to the valve type

4.3

Complete routine checks and reports and take appropriate action as required

5

Recognise and take appropriate action on abnormal fluid system situations

5.1

Monitor fluid flow system frequently and critically throughout shift using measured/indicated data and smell, sight, sound and feel as appropriate

5.2

Identify impacts of any changes upstream and downstream

5.3

Recognise situations which may require action

5.4

Resolve routine problems

5.5

Take actions on other abnormal situations to make safe and have the situation resolved

6

Isolate and de-isolate equipment

6.1

Complete any required pre-start checks

6.2

Start up/shut down/changeover fluid flow equipment according to the equipment type and duty in liaison with other personnel

6.3

Isolate equipment

6.4

Make safe for required work

6.5

Check plant is ready to be returned to service

6.6

De-isolate and prepare plant for return to service

Required Skills and Knowledge

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

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

1

Prepare for work

1.1

Receive and give shift handover

1.2

Identify work requirements

1.3

Identify and control hazards

1.4

Coordinate with appropriate personnel

1.5

Check for recent work undertaken on plant item

1.6

Note any outstanding/incomplete work

1.7

Check operational status of fluid flow equipment

2

Operate pumps

2.1

Identify the type of pump

2.2

Start up and shut down pump as required

2.3

Adjust flow and head/pressure as appropriate to type of pump

2.4

Complete routine checks and reports and take appropriate action as required

3

Operate pump drivers

3.1

Monitor critical variables such as amps, temperature and vibration

3.2

Keep critical variables in range

3.3

Recognise trends/patterns which indicate a potential or actual problem with the pump driver

3.4

Take action to ensure driver as required

4

Operate valves

4.1

Identify the type of valve

4.2

Operate valve in a manner appropriate to the valve type

4.3

Complete routine checks and reports and take appropriate action as required

5

Recognise and take appropriate action on abnormal fluid system situations

5.1

Monitor fluid flow system frequently and critically throughout shift using measured/indicated data and smell, sight, sound and feel as appropriate

5.2

Identify impacts of any changes upstream and downstream

5.3

Recognise situations which may require action

5.4

Resolve routine problems

5.5

Take actions on other abnormal situations to make safe and have the situation resolved

6

Isolate and de-isolate equipment

6.1

Complete any required pre-start checks

6.2

Start up/shut down/changeover fluid flow equipment according to the equipment type and duty in liaison with other personnel

6.3

Isolate equipment

6.4

Make safe for required work

6.5

Check plant is ready to be returned to service

6.6

De-isolate and prepare plant for return to service

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria, and include the ability to:

apply pre-start, start-up and shutdown procedures

monitor and operate fluid flow equipment to meet specifications

recognise early warning signs of equipment/processes needing attention or with potential problems

determine the most likely cause of routine problems

take appropriate action to ensure a timely return to full performance

isolate and de-isolate equipment

identify hazards and apply hazard control procedures.

Evidence must be provided that demonstrates knowledge of:

principles of operation of fluid flow equipment

plant process idiosyncrasies

physics relevant to fluid flow equipment

process parameters and limits

all items on a schematic of the fluid flow system and the function of each

correct methods of starting, stopping, operating and controlling flow

relevant alarms and actions

routine problems, faults and their resolution

function and troubleshooting of major internal components of pumps and valves and their typical problems.

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.

Regulatory framework

The latest version of all legislation, regulations, industry codes of practice and Australian/international standards, or the version specified by the local regulatory authority, must be used, and include one or more of the following:

legislative requirements, including work health and safety (WHS)

industry codes of practice and guidelines

environmental regulations and guidelines

Australian and other standards

licence and certification requirements

All operations to which this unit applies are subject to stringent health, safety and environment (HSE) requirements, which may be imposed through state/territory or federal legislation, and these must not be compromised at any time. Where there is an apparent conflict between performance criteria and HSE requirements, the HSE requirements take precedence.

Procedures

All operations must be performed in accordance with relevant procedures.

Procedures are written, verbal, visual, computer-based or in some other form, and include one or more of the following:

emergency procedures

work instructions

standard operating procedures (SOPs)

safe work method statements (SWMS)

formulas/recipes

batch sheets

temporary instructions

any similar instructions provided for the smooth running of the plant

Equipment

Equipment includes one or more of the following:

pumps (various types of centrifugal and positive displacement)

valves, such as globe, needle, gate, butterfly, plug cock, wedge plug, ball cock, non-return, diaphragm, pneumatic globe and pneumatic butterfly)

piping systems and components, including bends and elbows, tee pieces, expansion mechanisms, pipe joints, reducers, nipples, orifices, in-line mixers, filters and strainers, flexible hoses and couplings

shaft seals, such as stuffing boxes, mechanical seals, fluid seals and labyrinth seals

Routine problems

Routine problems must be resolved by applying known solutions.

Routine problems are predictable and include one or more of the following:

cavitation

seal leaks

head loss/low flow

bearing problems

Known solutions are drawn from one or more of the following:

procedures

training

remembered experience

Non-routine problems must be reported according to according to relevant procedures.

Responding to abnormal situations

Responding to abnormal situations includes the following:

determining problems needing action

determining possible fault causes

rectifying problem using appropriate solution within area of responsibility

following through items initiated until final resolution has occurred

reporting problems outside area of responsibility to designated person

Operate

Operate is to monitor, adjust/change the plant item/unit/system to meet specifications, by one or more of the following:

manually in the plant

using local controller in the plant

Hazards

Hazards include one or more of the following:

smoke, darkness and heat

dust or other atmospheric hazards

electricity

gas

gases and liquids under pressure

structural hazards

structural collapse

equipment failures

industrial (machinery, equipment and product)

equipment or product mass

noise, rotational equipment or vibration

plant services (steam, condensate and cooling water)

limited head spaces or overhangs

working at heights, in restricted or confined spaces, or in environments subjected to heat, noise, dusts or vapours or other atmospheric hazards

flammability and explosivity

hazardous products and materials

unauthorised personnel

sharp edges, protrusions or obstructions

slippery surfaces, spills or leaks

extreme weather

other hazards that might arise

Start up/shut down as required

Start up/shut down as required includes the following:

start up and shut down to/from normal operating conditions

start up and shut down to/from isolated, cold or empty

start up and shut down to/from other conditions/situations experienced on the plant