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Evidence Guide: PMAOPS230B - Monitor, operate and maintain pipeline stations and equipment

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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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PMAOPS230B - Monitor, operate and maintain pipeline stations and equipment

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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Plan and organise for activities.

  1. Review previous reports and check for outstanding work orders or notices
  2. Obtain tools, equipment and testing devices needed to carry out the work and check for correct operation and safety
  3. Check operational area to ensure that hazards are controlled
  4. Conduct required safety checks and pre-start checks of the equipment
  5. Determine status of the system through communication with relevant personnel prior to commencing start-up.
Review previous reports and check for outstanding work orders or notices

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Obtain tools, equipment and testing devices needed to carry out the work and check for correct operation and safety

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Check operational area to ensure that hazards are controlled

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Conduct required safety checks and pre-start checks of the equipment

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Determine status of the system through communication with relevant personnel prior to commencing start-up.

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Start up/shut down the system.

  1. Start up the system in accordance with procedures
  2. Shutdown in accordance with procedures and conditions
  3. Apply emergency shutdown procedures when appropriate
  4. Maintain records/reports to procedures.
Start up the system in accordance with procedures

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Shutdown in accordance with procedures and conditions

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Apply emergency shutdown procedures when appropriate

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Maintain records/reports to procedures.

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Monitor the system

  1. Monitor operating conditions of equipment through condition monitoring systems, gauge levels, temperatures and flow indicators in order to determine performance of equipment and system
  2. Adjust systems for the most efficient operation
  3. Identify equipment faults through inspection and testing of the operational equipment
  4. Take appropriate action
  5. Communicate pipeline system information to relevant personnel
  6. Select and apply emergency response when required
Monitor operating conditions of equipment through condition monitoring systems, gauge levels, temperatures and flow indicators in order to determine performance of equipment and system

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Adjust systems for the most efficient operation

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Identify equipment faults through inspection and testing of the operational equipment

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Take appropriate action

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Communicate pipeline system information to relevant personnel

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Select and apply emergency response when required

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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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Record and report results.

  1. Document and record maintenance results to procedures
  2. Notify work completion to procedures
  3. Cancel where appropriate permit to work and sign off at completion of repair.
Document and record maintenance results to procedures

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Notify work completion to procedures

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Cancel where appropriate permit to work and sign off at completion of repair.

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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/pipeline 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 pipeline and its integral 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

As a general rule assessment will require access to an operating pipeline system over an extended period of time, or a suitable method of gathering evidence of operating competence 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. Consider co-assessment with:

PMASUP236B Operate vehicles in the field

PMAOPS221B Operate and monitor prime movers

PMAOPS304B Operate and monitor compressors

PMAOPS223B Operate and monitor valve systems.

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 pipeline system and to distinguish between causes of problems/alarm/fault indications such as:

process gas variations

instrument failure/wrong reading

electrical failure

mechanical failure

operational problems.

Required knowledge

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

station instrumentation

condition monitoring equipment

station power supplies

operations of metering equipment

functions of process control equipment

principles behind gas analysis equipment

purpose of valves, actuators and flanges

layout of piping systems

sumps and drains

station pressure vessels/filtration equipment

principles of operation of plant/equipment

physics and chemistry relevant to the process unit and the materials processed

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

all items on a schematic of the plant item and the function of each

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 items of equipment and unit operations which form part of the pipeline system. For your plant this may include (select relevant items):

compressor systems and equipment, including monitoring systems, anti surge systems, safety systems and compressor control systems

prime movers, including turbine engines, reciprocating engines and electric motors,

instrument and control systems

valve systems.

Typical problems

Typical problems for your plant may include:

gas/product leaks

incorrect valve positions

electrical problems

compressor or pump failure

out of current inspection status

gauge failure or hose rupture, leaks

instruments out of calibration

instruments and equipment requiring cleaning.

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.