Description
Learner Guide with Unit Content, Assessment Tasks, Competency Records, Benchmark Answers and Assessment Mapping for MSMWHS217 Gas test atmospheres.
This unit of competency covers the skills and knowledge required to test the working atmosphere, using electronic test apparatus, to find out if it is safe for the proposed work.
It applies to situations where an individual may be required to carry out gas testing of an atmosphere prior to entering a specific area or workspace. The competency requires the person to interpret readings and take actions based on the interpretation.
Working environment may be hazardous, unpredictable, subject to time pressure, chaotic and expose responders to risk, on land or water, by day or night. Workplace atmospheres may include visible and invisible hazards and hazardous surfaces.
The unit is suitable for use in the following situations:
- confined spaces
- enclosed and partially enclosed spaces
- hot work
- storage tanks, silos, pits, pipes, shafts, ducts, transport vehicles and ships
- testing as part of issuing a work permit
- monitoring as part of working under a work permit
- open areas
- holding the gas tester by hand
- lowering the gas tester into a space, e.g. on a line.
This unit of competency applies to an individual working alone or as part of a team or group and working in liaison with other shift team members and the control room operator, as appropriate.
FORMAT: Customisable MS Word
Qualifications that include this unit
- PMB40116 – Certificate IV in Polymer Technology
- PMB30116 – Certificate III in Polymer Processing
- PMB20116 – Certificate II in Polymer Processing
- PMA40116 – Certificate IV in Process Plant Technology
- PMA30116 – Certificate III in Process Plant Operations
- PMA20116 – Certificate II in Process Plant Operations
- MSM40116 – Certificate IV in Process Manufacturing
- MSM30216 – Certificate III in Surface Preparation and Coating Application
- MSM30116 – Certificate III in Process Manufacturing
- MSM20116 – Certificate II in Process Manufacturing
