National Certificate in Extractive Industries - Sand

Level 3  Credits 68

This qualification is designed for an operator who works in the sand sector of the extractive industries. The qualification comprises compulsory standards related to hazard recognition, lifting and moving loads, environmental impacts, mathematics, and use of tools and equipment.

This National Certificate leads on to the National Certificate in Extractive Industries – Sand (Level 4). These two qualifications may be assessed concurrently, where applicable and can be a pathway to the National Certificates in Extractive Industries - Operations (Levels 3 & 4)

Surface Extraction includes quarries, open cast coal and gold mines, lime mills, alluvial gold extraction, iron sands, and industrial minerals. Underground Extraction includes metalliferous and coal underground mines and tunnels.

Pre-requisite: National Certificate in Extractive Industries - Introductory Skills

COMPULSORY: 38 Credits

Unit Standard	Description	Level	Credit
2395	Select, use and care for, engineering hand tools	2	4
2396	Select, use and maintain portable hand held engineering power tools	2	4
8900	Clean surface extraction fixed and mobile production plant, equipment, and site, and maintain site	2	5
16687	Demonstrate knowledge of hazardous substances at an extractive site	3	3
17602	Apply hazard identification and risk assessment procedures in the workplace	3	4
17695	Lift and move a range of loads at an extractive site	3	10
25876	Describe the effects of an extractives site on the environment and related requirements and responsibilities	3	4
25880	Use simple maths to solve extractives related problems	2	4

 

ELECTIVE 1: A minimum 25 credits.

Unit Standard	Description	Level	Credit
8905	Construct and maintain access roads within surface extraction sites	3	3
14870	Operate a rope excavator	3	12
17981	Describe and operate a hopper/cable reel car at a surface extraction site	3	6
17983	Demonstrate knowledge of emergency shutdown procedures at a sand extractives site	2	6
17988	Describe and operate primary feed systems at a sand extraction site	3	10
17993	Describe and operate a tailings disposal system at an extractive site	3	12
21153	Demonstrate knowledge of dewatering, pump maintenance, cleaning settling ponds at extraction sites	3	12
21155	Review consent conditions and demonstrate knowledge of the use of water at surface extraction sites	3	10
22058	Describe and operate a drying plant at an extractive site	3	10
22346	Describe, prepare, and operate a water truck at an extractive site	3	15
25881	Operate conveyors at an extractives site	3	5
25883	Operate screens at an extractives site	3	3

 

ELECTIVE 2: A minimum of 5 credits at Level 3 or above from anywhere on the DAS.