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SOUTH AFRICAN QUALIFICATIONS AUTHORITY 
REGISTERED UNIT STANDARD THAT HAS PASSED THE END DATE: 

Issue and retrieve personal monitoring equipment 
SAQA US ID UNIT STANDARD TITLE
115096  Issue and retrieve personal monitoring equipment 
ORIGINATOR
SGB Occupational Health and Safety 
PRIMARY OR DELEGATED QUALITY ASSURANCE FUNCTIONARY
-  
FIELD SUBFIELD
Field 09 - Health Sciences and Social Services Preventive Health 
ABET BAND UNIT STANDARD TYPE PRE-2009 NQF LEVEL NQF LEVEL CREDITS
Undefined  Regular-Fundamental  Level 1  NQF Level 01  1 
REGISTRATION STATUS REGISTRATION START DATE REGISTRATION END DATE SAQA DECISION NUMBER
Passed the End Date -
Status was "Reregistered" 		 2007-08-07  2008-11-26  SAQA 0160/05 
LAST DATE FOR ENROLMENT LAST DATE FOR ACHIEVEMENT
2009-11-26   2012-11-26  

In all of the tables in this document, both the pre-2009 NQF Level and the NQF Level is shown. In the text (purpose statements, qualification rules, etc), any references to NQF Levels are to the pre-2009 levels unless specifically stated otherwise.  

This unit standard is replaced by: 
US ID Unit Standard Title Pre-2009 NQF Level NQF Level Credits Replacement Status
259638  Issue and retrieve Personal Monitoring Equipment  Level 2  NQF Level 02  2   

PURPOSE OF THE UNIT STANDARD 
This Unit Standard requires learners to be able to issue and retrieve personal monitoring equipment. Learners credited with this Unit Standard are capable of:
Explaining the specified requirements pertaining to personal monitoring equipment
Issuing personal monitoring equipment to ensure safety, health and productivity
Retrieving personal monitoring equipment following specified procedures. 

LEARNING ASSUMED TO BE IN PLACE AND RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING 
The assumption is that learners can already read, write and communicate at ABET 3 level or equivalent. 

UNIT STANDARD RANGE 
N/A 

Specific Outcomes and Assessment Criteria: 

SPECIFIC OUTCOME 1 
Explain the specified requirements pertaining to personal monitoring equipment. 

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA 

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 1 
Explanation of the specified requirements pertaining to personal monitoring equipment is accurate 

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 2 
Explanation of the basic operation of the personal monitoring equipment is consistent with specified requirements 

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 3 
Explanation of the need for personal monitoring is consistent with specified requirements 

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 4 
Explanation of the importance of wearing personal monitoring equipment correctly is consistent with specified requirements 

SPECIFIC OUTCOME 2 
Issue personal monitoring equipment to ensure safety, health and productivity 

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA 

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 1 
The personal monitoring equipment is verified as being assembled according to specified requirements 

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 2 
The importance of correctly assembling the personal monitoring equipment is explained in terms of the consequences for health, safety and productivity 

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 3 
The importance of wearing the monitoring equipment correctly is explained to wearers in accordance with specified requirements 

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 4 
The issuing arrangements are according to specified requirements 

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 5 
The importance of complying with the above is explained in terms of the consequences for the management of the personal monitoring program 

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 6 
The work involved in the issuing process is performed in a manner that fosters teamwork and avoids conflict 

SPECIFIC OUTCOME 3 
Retrieve personal monitoring equipment following specified procedures. 

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA 

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 1 
The personal monitoring equipment is retrieved and dealt with according to specified requirements 

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 2 
The importance of retrieving and dealing with personal monitoring equipment as prescribed is explained in terms of the consequences for the monitoring program 

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 3 
The personal monitoring equipment and completed control documents are returned to the control point, according to specified requirements 

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 4 
The importance of returning the personal equipment and completed control documents is explained in terms of the consequences for the monitoring program 

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 5 
The work involved in the retrieving process is performed in a manner that fosters teamwork and avoids conflict 


UNIT STANDARD ACCREDITATION AND MODERATION OPTIONS 
Assessment of learner achievements takes place at providers accredited by a relevant ETQA (RSA, 1998b) for the provision of programmes that result in the outcomes specified for this Unit Standard. Anyone assessing a learner against this Unit Standard must be registered as an assessor with a relevant ETQA. Any institution offering learning that will enable achievement of this Unit Standard must be accredited as a provider with a relevant ETQA. The relevant ETQA according to the moderation guidelines and the agreed ETQA procedures will oversee moderation of assessment and is responsible for moderation of learner achievements of learners who meet the requirements of this Unit Standard. 

UNIT STANDARD ESSENTIAL EMBEDDED KNOWLEDGE 
Essential embedded knowledge will be assessed through assessment of the specific outcomes in terms of the stipulated assessment criteria. Learners are unlikely to achieve all the specific outcomes, to the standards described in the assessment criteria, without knowledge of the listed embedded knowledge. This means that for the most part, the possession or lack of the knowledge can be directly inferred from the quality of the learner's performance. Where direct assessment of knowledge is required, assessment criteria have been included in the body of the Unit Standard.

Credited learners understand and can explain:
  • Types of detection and measurement methodologies for personal monitoring equipment data.
  • Limitations of various detection and measuring methodologies.
  • Effects that personal monitoring equipment data have on the health and safety of people
  • Importance of evaluating personal monitoring equipment data.
  • Circumstances that necessitate evaluating personal monitoring equipment data.
  • Use of instruments and accessories.
  • Instruments' and their accessories' principle of operation, range, use and limitations.
  • Importance of examining and calibrating instruments.
  • Safe handling and use of specified instruments.
  • Consequences for health, safety and productivity of dealing with defective and used equipment, continuously assessing health and safety hazards and risks, dangers of accessing sites without meeting access requirements, examining and correctly using personal protective equipment, testing for gas according to specified requirements, compliance with exposure levels, dealing with conditions, environmental factors, and limitations that can influence readings, evaluating test results and taking appropriate action.
  • Occupational exposure limits and limits for personal monitoring equipment data.
  • Action to be taken when personal monitoring equipment data are encountered outside legal exposure levels.
  • Conditions, environmental factors, and limitations that can influence readings. 
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    UNIT STANDARD DEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOME 
    N/A 

    UNIT STANDARD LINKAGES 
    N/A 


    Critical Cross-field Outcomes (CCFO): 

    UNIT STANDARD CCFO WORKING 
    Work effectively with others as a member of team/ group/ organisation/ community to issue personal monitoring equipment in a manner that fosters team work and minimises conflict 

    UNIT STANDARD CCFO ORGANISING 
    Organise and manage themselves and their activities responsibly and effectively when issuing and retrieving equipment, and completing control documents 

    UNIT STANDARD CCFO COLLECTING 
    Collect, organise and critically evaluate information to reconcile the information on the control documents, with the personal monitoring equipment and the scheduled wearer, and when personal monitoring equipment is verified as being assembled according to specified requirements 

    UNIT STANDARD CCFO COMMUNICATING 
    Communicate effectively using visual, mathematics and language skills in the modes of oral and written presentations to issue and retrieve equipment to and from wearers 

    UNIT STANDARD ASSESSOR CRITERIA 
    Assessors should keep the following principles in mind when designing and conducting assessments against this Unit Standard:
    Focus the assessment activities on gathering evidence in terms of the main outcome expressed in the title to ensure assessment is integrated rather than fragmented. Remember we want to declare the learner competent in terms of the title. Where assessment at title level is unmanageable, then focus assessment around each specific outcome, or groups of specific outcomes.
    Make sure evidence is gathered across the entire range, wherever it applies. Assessment activities should be as close to the real performance as possible, and where simulations or role-plays are used, there should be supporting evidence to show the learner is able to perform in the real situation.
    Do not focus the assessment activities on each assessment criterion. Rather make sure the assessment activities focus on outcomes and are sufficient to enable evidence to be gathered around all the assessment criteria.
    The assessment criteria provide the specifications against which assessment judgements should be made. In most cases, knowledge can be inferred from the quality of the performances, but in other cases, knowledge and understanding will have to be tested through questioning techniques. Where this is required, there will be assessment criteria to specify the standard required.
    The task of the assessor is to gather sufficient evidence, of the prescribed type and quality, as specified in this Unit Standard, that the learner can achieve the outcomes again and again and again. This means assessors will have to judge how many repeat performances are required before they believe the performance is reproducible.
    All assessments should be conducted in line with the following well documented principles of assessment: appropriateness, fairness, manageability, integration into work or learning, validity, direct, authentic, sufficient, systematic, open and consistent. 

    UNIT STANDARD NOTES 
    This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard 259638, which is "Issue and Retrieve Personal Monitoring Equipment", Level 2, 2 credits.

    Specified requirements include legal and site-specific requirements and are contained in one or more of the following documents:

    Legal requirements
  • OHS Act and Regulations 85 / 1993
  • Mine Health and Safety Act and Regulations 29/1996
  • Guideline for mandatory Codes of Practice

    Site- Specific requirements
  • Managerial instructions
  • Codes of Practice
  • Company Standards
  • Standard Task Procedures
  • Health Management Program
  • Risk Assessment Documentation
  • Working Guides
  • Manufacturers' specifications. 
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    QUALIFICATIONS UTILISING THIS UNIT STANDARD: 
      ID QUALIFICATION TITLE PRE-2009 NQF LEVEL NQF LEVEL STATUS END DATE PRIMARY OR DELEGATED QA FUNCTIONARY
    Core  48804   National Certificate: Occupational Safety, Hygiene and Environment  Level 2  NQF Level 02  Passed the End Date -
    Status was "Reregistered"     		 2008-11-26  Was HW SETA until Last Date for Achievement 


    PROVIDERS CURRENTLY ACCREDITED TO OFFER THIS UNIT STANDARD: 
    This information shows the current accreditations (i.e. those not past their accreditation end dates), and is the most complete record available to SAQA as of today. Some Primary or Delegated Quality Assurance Functionaries have a lag in their recording systems for provider accreditation, in turn leading to a lag in notifying SAQA of all the providers that they have accredited to offer qualifications and unit standards, as well as any extensions to accreditation end dates. The relevant Primary or Delegated Quality Assurance Functionary should be notified if a record appears to be missing from here.
     
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    All qualifications and part qualifications registered on the National Qualifications Framework are public property. Thus the only payment that can be made for them is for service and reproduction. It is illegal to sell this material for profit. If the material is reproduced or quoted, the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) should be acknowledged as the source.