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NWPHYD009 — Undertake surveying of monitoring sites

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What an assessment for NWPHYD009 must cover

44 assessable components: 4 elements (18 performance criteria), 15 performance evidence and 11 knowledge evidence requirements. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Plan and assess survey requirements

  • 1.1Identify survey objectives according to workplace procedures
  • 1.2Identify the location and value of survey reference marks from maps and plans
  • 1.3Choose and justify appropriate survey techniques for hydrometric purposes
  • 1.4Identify and evaluate the source of levelling errors and misclosures
  • 1.5Plan and manage the logistics and personnel to ensure effective outcomes and resource management
  • 1.6Apply correct care procedure for storage, transport and use of survey equipment
  • 1.7Assess and address WHS issues encountered during the surveying exercise, taking appropriate risk management strategies

2 Operate survey equipment

  • 2.1Select, set up and prepare survey equipment and check level of accuracy according to workplace procedures
  • 2.2Use mathematical techniques to check for correct operation of surveying equipment
  • 2.3Use and select appropriate survey equipment according to site conditions

3 Select and survey monitoring sites

  • 3.1Identify required survey reference benchmarks according to workplace procedures
  • 3.2Identify and survey high- flow measurement cross-section, control section and cease-to-flow
  • 3.3Survey cross sections of the channel to determine the profile of the channel in the gauging station reach including the use of stadia methods
  • 3.4Identify and assess monitoring site survey reference points according to workplace procedures
  • 3.5Establish benchmark and survey to Australian Height Datum according to workplace procedures

4 Document survey and data results

  • 4.1Verify, document, store and archive results according to workplace procedures
  • 4.2Produce a site layout plan of survey reference points
  • 4.3Produce a plot of survey cross section

Performance evidence

  • analysing and verifying data using standard procedures, software and databases
  • applying appropriate datum and projections
  • applying sightings and standard error checks
  • capturing, storing and archiving data
  • carrying out collimation test to survey equipment accuracy
  • ensuring cross sections and survey reference marks are suitable to a range of flow conditions
  • identifying survey reference marks
  • gathering and interpreting documentation
  • locating features on maps and plans, finding survey reference marks and plotting locations
  • maintaining surveying equipment
  • measuring horizontal distance by stadia
  • preparing and holding survey staff
  • preparing and loading surveying equipment for transportation
  • preparing clear and accurate reports
  • preparing, setting up and operating surveying equipment

Knowledge evidence

  • agency remote area work health and safety procedures
  • computer software relevant to the analysis and archiving of hydrometric data
  • global positioning systems
  • mathematical and other scientific techniques relevant to the analysis of hydrometric data
  • relevant legislation and industry standards including:
  • Bureau of Meteorology
  • international and national standards
  • work health and safety
  • World Meteorological Organisation
  • relevant workplace policies and procedures
  • workplace data recording and reporting requirements

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What does an assessment tool for NWPHYD009 need to cover?

To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for NWPHYD009 needs to address all 44 unit components: 4 elements with 18 performance criteria, 15 performance evidence requirements, 11 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.

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