EIT Trades Academy Agriculture Level 2 - Hawkes Bay

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Earners of the EIT Trades Academy Agriculture NCEA Level 2 badge have completed supervised practical farm skills through Hawke’s Bay School’s Trades Academy at EIT (Eastern Institute of Technology). Learners have developed basic agricultural skills for employment as farm assistants, cadets or trainees in the rural sector.

Type Validation
Level Foundational
Time Months
Cost Free

Additional Details

Skills

Earning Criteria

In this course the learner gained skills in: Farm hazards, hazard control and injury consequences Using fencing wire on farm and preparing wire for transport and storage. Maintaining fencing tools and equipment, identify fencing construction materials. Use chainsaws in a rural setting.
Learners have been assessed and passed a range of items including: Rural workplace hazards. Why they are hazards and the harm caused. Hazard control methods. Documentation completion. Knowledge of economic, physical and psychological consequences of injury in a rural workplace. Knowledge of the role of organisations associated with workplace safety and the HSE Act.
Learners have been assessed and passed a range of items including: Open a coil of wire, draw out and cut, prepare to retie the roll, tie termination and join knots in wire, join wires by alternative or non-tied means; prepare wire for transport and storage.
Learners have been assessed and passed a range of items including: Knowledge of fencing tools and construction materials. Describe fencing equipment functions. Maintain fencing tools and equipment. Fencing wire types and their uses.
Learners have been assessed and passed a range of items including: Knowledge of the rules for chainsaw use. Rules relating to transport and use of chainsaw fuel. Describe PPE and first aid requirements for chainsaw operators.

Standards

NZQA Unit Standard 23540: Demonstrate knowledge of hazard control, and the consequences of injury in a rural workplace, Level 2, 5 credits, version 2.

This unit standard is for people working or intending to work in the primary industry sector. People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify and describe rural workplace hazards, the reasons why they are hazards, and the harm they cause; describe hazard control methods, and complete associated documentation; demonstrate knowledge of

NZQA Unit Standard 24832: Open and draw out a coil of wire, tie knots, join wire and prepare wire for transport and storage, Level 2, 5 credits, version 2.

This unit standard is for people working or intending to work in the primary industry sector. People credited with this unit standard are able to: open a coil of wire, draw out, cut and prepare to retie the roll, tie termination and joining knots in wire; join wires by alternative or non-tied means; and prepare wire for transport and storage under

NZQA Unit Standard 24833: Identify and maintain fencing tools and equipment, and identify fencing construction materials and wire types, Level 2, 3 Credits, Version 2.

This unit standard is for people working or intending to work in the primary industry sector. People credited with this unit standard are able to: demonstrate knowledge of fencing tools and construction materials, and describe their function; maintain fencing tools and equipment; and identify and describe fencing wire types and their uses.

NZQA Unit Standard 6916: Demonstrate knowledge of the rules relating to chainsaw use, Level 2, 5 credits, version 9.

This unit standard is for people working or intending to work in the primary industry sector. People credited with this unit standard are able to: demonstrate knowledge of the rules for chainsaw use; describe rules relating to the transport and use of chainsaw fuel; and describe PPE and first aid requirements for chainsaw operators.