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Evidence Guide: PMAOPS224B - Provide fluids for utilities and support

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Tips for gathering evidence to demonstrate your skills

The important thing to remember when gathering evidence is that the more evidence the better - that is, the more evidence you gather to demonstrate your skills, the more confident an assessor can be that you have learned the skills not just at one point in time, but are continuing to apply and develop those skills (as opposed to just learning for the test!). Furthermore, one piece of evidence that you collect will not usualy demonstrate all the required criteria for a unit of competency, whereas multiple overlapping pieces of evidence will usually do the trick!

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PMAOPS224B - Provide fluids for utilities and support

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

Prepare for work.

  1. Identify work requirements
  2. Identify and control hazards
  3. Coordinate with appropriate personnel
Identify work requirements

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Identify and control hazards

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Coordinate with appropriate personnel

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Start up equipment and/or processes.

  1. Ensure equipment or process is ready to start and not tagged out or subject to work order
  2. Check all valves, inlets and outlets are in correct positions for start-up
  3. Check as appropriate for 'clear board' with all indicators 'in the green'
  4. Inform other plant personnel as appropriate
  5. Commence start-up to procedures and monitor fluid flows, temperatures and/or pressures
  6. Confirm all fluids are flowing at correct volume, pressure and/or temperature.
Ensure equipment or process is ready to start and not tagged out or subject to work order

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Check all valves, inlets and outlets are in correct positions for start-up

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Check as appropriate for 'clear board' with all indicators 'in the green'

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Inform other plant personnel as appropriate

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Commence start-up to procedures and monitor fluid flows, temperatures and/or pressures

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Confirm all fluids are flowing at correct volume, pressure and/or temperature.

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Monitor utility and support fluid equipment.

  1. Determine the required levels of demand for support or utility fluids from a knowledge of the plant/site's process control systems or equipment
  2. Monitor process equipment and systems, including compressors, pumps, receivers and distribution systems, to meet and maintain the facility utility service requirements
  3. Monitor and manually adjust flow or ensure correct operation of automatic control valves to control the flow of fluids into the plant/site's process systems and equipment
  4. Monitor quality of fluids and ensure that they remain within specifications, eg quality and consistency
  5. Complete routine checks and reports
  6. Take appropriate action resulting from monitoring and checks.
Determine the required levels of demand for support or utility fluids from a knowledge of the plant/site's process control systems or equipment

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Monitor process equipment and systems, including compressors, pumps, receivers and distribution systems, to meet and maintain the facility utility service requirements

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Monitor and manually adjust flow or ensure correct operation of automatic control valves to control the flow of fluids into the plant/site's process systems and equipment

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Monitor quality of fluids and ensure that they remain within specifications, eg quality and consistency

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Complete routine checks and reports

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Take appropriate action resulting from monitoring and checks.

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Identify need for maintenance.

  1. Monitor service records to assist with programmed maintenance scheduling
  2. Monitor equipment for evidence of maintenance needs outside programmed maintenance
  3. Advise other site personnel of the need to take equipment off-line for maintenance action
  4. Identify back-up or auxiliary equipment (where provided) to facilitate maintenance of fluid supplies within the facility
  5. Ensure equipment can be safely taken off line for maintenance
Monitor service records to assist with programmed maintenance scheduling

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Monitor equipment for evidence of maintenance needs outside programmed maintenance

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Advise other site personnel of the need to take equipment off-line for maintenance action

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Identify back-up or auxiliary equipment (where provided) to facilitate maintenance of fluid supplies within the facility

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Ensure equipment can be safely taken off line for maintenance

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Isolate and de-isolate plant.

  1. Isolate plant
  2. Make safe for required work
  3. Check plant is ready to be returned to service
  4. Prepare plant for return to service.
Isolate plant

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Make safe for required work

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Check plant is ready to be returned to service

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Prepare plant for return to service.

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Respond to emergencies.

  1. Identify critical out of specification performance of equipment and contact appropriate personnel
  2. Respond to an emergent situation according to procedures
  3. Shut down, under instruction, any equipment and associated equipment affected by the emergency situation
  4. Implement any back-up procedures to ensure the ongoing supply of critical fluids to the remainder of the facility
  5. Ensure all safety procedures are fully complied with.
Identify critical out of specification performance of equipment and contact appropriate personnel

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Respond to an emergent situation according to procedures

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Shut down, under instruction, any equipment and associated equipment affected by the emergency situation

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Implement any back-up procedures to ensure the ongoing supply of critical fluids to the remainder of the facility

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Ensure all safety procedures are fully complied with.

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Assessed

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Instructions to Assessors

Evidence Guide

The Evidence Guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the Performance Criteria, Required Skills and Knowledge, the Range Statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package.

Overview of assessment

Assessment of this unit should include demonstrated competence on actual plant and equipment in a work environment. The unit will be assessed in as holistic a manner as is practical and may be integrated with the assessment of other relevant units of competency. Assessment will occur over a range of situations, which will include disruptions to normal, smooth operation.

Simulation may be required to allow for assessment of parts of this unit. Simulation should be based on the actual plant and will include walk-throughs of the relevant competency components. Simulations may also include the use of case studies/scenarios, role plays and 3D virtual reality interactive systems. In the case of evacuation training or training for competencies practised in life threatening situations, simulation may be used for the bulk of the training.

This unit of competency requires an application of the knowledge contained in the use of the equipment, to the level needed to maintain control and recognise and resolve problems. This can be assessed through questioning and the use of what-if scenarios both on the plant (during demonstration of normal operations and walk throughs of abnormal operations) and off the plant.

Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit

Competence must be demonstrated in the ability to recognise and analyse potential situations requiring action and then in implementing appropriate corrective action. The emphasis should be on the ability to stay out of trouble rather than on recovery from a disaster.

Consistent performance should be demonstrated. In particular look to see that:

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

the range of possible causes can be identified and analysed and the most likely cause determined

appropriate action is taken to ensure a timely return to full performance

obvious problems in related plant areas are recognised and an appropriate contribution made to their solution.

These aspects may be best assessed using a range of scenarios/case studies/what-ifs as the stimulus with a walk-through forming part of the response. These assessment activities should include a range of problems, including new, unusual and improbable situations, which may have been generated from the past incident history of the plant, incidents on similar plants around the world, hazard analysis activities and similar sources.

Context of and specific resources for assessment

Assessment will require access to an operating plant over an extended period of time, or a suitable method of gathering evidence of operating ability over a range of situations. A bank of scenarios/case studies/what-ifs will be required as will a bank of questions which will be used to probe the reasoning behind the observable actions.

Method of assessment

In all plants it may be appropriate to assess this unit concurrently with relevant teamwork and communication units.

In a major hazard facility, it may be appropriate to assess this unit concurrently with:

MSAPMOHS200A Work safely.

Guidance information for assessment

Assessment processes and techniques must be culturally appropriate and appropriate to the oracy, language and literacy capacity of the assessee and the work being performed.

Required Skills and Knowledge

This describes the essential skills and knowledge and their level, required for this unit.

Required skills

Competence includes the ability to isolate the causes of problems to an item of equipment within the production system and to be able to distinguish between causes of problems/alarm/fault indications such as:

instrument failure/malfunction

electrical failure/malfunction

mechanical failure/malfunction

product parameters (temperature, flows, pressure and levels).

Required knowledge

The knowledge referred to in the Evidence Guide for this unit includes:

identify all items on a schematic of the system and describe the function of each

principles of equipment operation

physics relating to the particular process

chemistry relating to the process

process equipment operating parameters

emergency back up systems

process control systems and instrumentation

the differences between high pressure and low pressure systems.

process parameters and limits, eg temperature, pressure, flow, pH

duty of care obligations

hierarchy of control

communication protocols, eg radio, phone, computer, paper, permissions/authorities

routine problems, faults and their resolution

relevant alarms and actions

plant process idiosyncrasies

correct methods of starting, stopping, operating and controlling process

corrective action appropriate to the problem cause

function and troubleshooting of major components and their problems

types and causes of problems within operator's scope of skill level and responsibility.

Range Statement

The Range Statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the Performance Criteria, is detailed below. Add any essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment depending on the work situation, needs if the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts.

Codes of practice/ standards

Where reference is made to industry codes of practice, and/or Australian/international standards, the latest version must be used.

Context

This unit of competency includes all such items of equipment and unit operations which form part of the utilities/fluids supply system. For your plant this may include (select relevant items):

plant water equipment

high and low pressure steam equipment

flushing oil systems

cryogenic plants

refrigerant systems

filtration equipment

purge systems.

Typical problems

Typical problems for your plant may include:

variation in fluid feed

vibration or surging

control of level, temperature, pressure and flow

blockages or leakage.

Appropriate action

Appropriate action includes:

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.

Procedures

Procedures may be written, verbal, computer-based or in some other form. They include:

all work instructions

standard operating procedures

formulas/recipes

batch sheets

temporary instructions

any similar instructions provided for the smooth running of the plant.

For the purposes of this Training Package, 'procedures' also includes good operating practice as may be defined by industry codes of practice (eg Responsible Care) and government regulations.

Health, safety and environment (HSE)

All operations to which this unit applies are subject to stringent health, safety and environment requirements, which may be imposed through State 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.