Skills Training
“It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.” – W. Edwards Deming
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This generic assessor unit standard is for those who assess people for their achievement of learning outcomes in terms of specified criteria using pre-designed assessment instruments. The outcomes and criteria may be defined in a range of documents including but not limited to unit standards, exit level outcomes, assessment standards, curriculum statements and qualifications.
Those who achieve this unit standard will be able to conduct assessments within their fields of expertise. This unit standard will contribute towards the achievement of a variety of qualifications, particularly within the fields of Education Training and Development Practices and Human Resource Development.
People credited with this unit standard are able to carry out assessments in a fair, valid, reliable and practicable manner that is free of all bias and discrimination, paying particular attention to the three groups targeted for redress: race, gender and disability.
In particular, people credited with this unit standard will be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of outcomes-based assessment;
- Prepare for assessments;
- Conduct assessments;
- Provide feedback on assessments; and
- Review assessments.
Credits 15 | NQF Level 6 | 5 Day Course
This unit standard is for people who conduct internal or external moderation of outcomes-based assessments. The assessments could be in terms of outcomes defined in a number of documents, including but not limited to unit standards, exit level outcomes, assessment standards, curriculum statements and qualifications. This unit standard will contribute towards the achievement of a variety of qualifications particularly within the field of Education Training and Development Practices and Human Resource Development.
Those who have achieved this unit standard will be able to moderate assessments in terms of the relevant outcome statements and quality assurance requirements. The candidate-moderator will be able to use the prescribed Quality Assurance procedures in a fair, valid, reliable and practicable manner that is free of all bias and discrimination, paying particular attention to the three groups targeted for redress: race, gender and disability.
In particular, people credited with this unit standard are able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of moderation within the context of an outcomes-based assessment system,
- Plan and prepare for moderation,
- Conduct moderation,
- Advise and support assessors,
- Report, record and administer moderation, and
- Review moderation systems and processes.
Credits 10 | NQF Level 6 | 5 Day Course
This Unit Standard is intended for a range of people, including managers, supervisors, mentors, operators who may not be Education, Training and Development (ETD) specialists, but who are able to help people who have been on training to move from a generic skill to a particular application within the workplace.
People credited with this Unit Standard are capable of:
- Orientating a learner into the application of their skills within a workplace context.
- Guiding learners towards competent application of their skills within a workplace context.
- Assessing learner performance in the workplace context.
- Reviewing facilitation processes in the workplace context.
Credits 5 | NQF level 5 | 5 Days
This unit standard is for persons who have the responsibility to lift and move material and equipment by means of a forklift.
Persons credited with this unit standard are able to:
- Explain the specified requirements pertaining to lifting, securing, transferring and positioning of loads.
- Prepare for lifting, securing, transferring and positioning of loads.
- Operate the forklift.
- Perform post-lifting, securing, transferring and positioning activities.
The skills, knowledge and understanding demonstrated within this unit standard contribute to social and economic transformation and the upliftment and economic growth of the mining and minerals sector by lifting and moving material and equipment by means of a forklift as part of the mining process.
This unit standard is intended to promote general skills, knowledge and understanding of persons responsible for lifting and moving material and equipment by means of a forklift in the mining and minerals sector in order to ensure knowledgeable, competent and informed workers.
Credits 3 | NQF Level 2 | 5 Days
Learners wishing to acquire the competencies in this standard will be, people working at height where there is a risk of injury from a fall. Learners will be involved in performing tasks at height. Qualifying learners are able to follow fall arrest principles to perform work at height safely, under supervision of a qualified supervisor.
The qualifying learner is capable of:
- Explaining the use and limitations of a limited range of fall arrest equipment and fall arrest plan.
- Inspecting, assembling and storing fall arrest equipment.
- Selecting suitable anchor points.
- Using fall arrest systems with a double lanyard.
- Using pre-installed vertical and horizontal life-lines.
In order for a successful learner of this standard to be able to function in a rope access operation, the learner must:
- Be medically fit and in possession of a medical certificate, declaring the learner free from a condition that may prevent the learner from working safely as specified in the range statement. (An example of the content of the medical certificate is available in SABS 0333:2 Annex A).
Credits 2 | NQF Level 1 | 5 Days
The person credited with this unit standard will be able to describe the components of prefabricated aluminium alloy scaffolding. They will be able to assemble and dismantle prefabricated aluminium alloy scaffolding in a safe and efficient way at a work site. It will also enable learners to move the prefabricated aluminium alloy scaffolding when necessary and to understand that safety must be an overriding concern for their own and others safety for the duration of the erection, dismantling and moving phases.
The qualifying learner is capable of:
- Describing prefabricated aluminium alloy scaffolding and scaffolding components.
- Preparing to erect prefabricated aluminium alloy scaffolding.
- Erecting prefabricated aluminium alloy scaffolding.
- Dismantling and storing scaffolding.
Credits 4 | NQF Level 1 | 5 Days