UETDRRT009 — Maintain overhead traction components and equipment
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What an assessment for UETDRRT009 must cover
53 assessable components: 3 elements (25 performance criteria), 10 performance evidence and 18 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 Prepare for maintenance of overhead traction equipment or components
- 1.1Legislation, regulations, standards, codes of practice and organisational workplace requirements for the work to be performed are referred to and confirmed
- 1.2Relevant maintenance documents are identified and obtained
- 1.3Plant, tools, equipment, components and personal protective equipment (PPE) required for work are determined, obtained and confirmed in working order
- 1.4Hazards are identified, risks assessed and control measures identified and applied
- 1.5Work is prioritised and sequenced for completion in accordance with workplace requirements
- 1.6Work permits are organised in accordance with workplace requirements
- 1.7Worksite, road or rail management plan is prepared in accordance with workplace requirements
- 1.8Environmental constraints applicable to the work are identified and control measures applied
2 Perform maintenance of overhead traction equipment or components
- 2.1Legislation, regulations, standards, codes of practice and organisational workplace requirements for the work to be performed are applied and monitored
- 2.2Lifting, working at heights and the use of plant, tools, equipment and PPE are carried out in accordance with workplace requirements
- 2.3Hazard control measures are monitored in accordance with workplace requirements
- 2.4Work permits are instructed and issued and where appropriate signed in accordance with workplace requirements
- 2.5Worksite, road or rail management plan is established in accordance with workplace requirements
- 2.6Overhead traction equipment or components is maintained including repair or replacement in accordance with design standards, drawings and workplace requirements
- 2.7Overhead traction equipment or components are maintained and completed in agreed timeframes, to design standards or maintenance documents in accordance with workplace requirements
- 2.8Components or equipment and hardware are confirmed fit for service in accordance with workplace requirements
- 2.9Incidents or unplanned events are responded to in accordance with workplace requirements
- 2.10Quality checks of work, including visual inspections, are undertaken in accordance with workplace requirements
3 Complete work and documentation
- 3.1Completed work is checked against maintenance documents for compliance and anomalies reported in accordance with workplace requirements
- 3.2Incidents or unplanned events are reported in accordance with workplace requirements
- 3.3Worksite is rehabilitated, cleaned and made safe in accordance with workplace requirements
- 3.4Plant, tools and equipment are cleaned, checked and returned to storage in accordance with workplace requirements
- 3.5Surplus materials are returned to storage or disposed of in accordance with workplace requirements
- 3.6Work permits are completed, and overhead traction equipment or components are fit for service in accordance with workplace requirements
- 3.7Work records, reports and documentation are completed in accordance with workplace requirements
Performance evidence
- applying relevant legislation, regulations, standards, codes of practice and organisational workplace requirements, including: work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS)
- identifying hazards, assessing risks, identifying, applying and monitoring control measures
- obtaining, inspecting and using relevant personal protective equipment (PPE)
- maintaining at least two (2) of the following types of equipment: fuse switches, dropout fuses, section insulators, neutral sections, switches/isolators, links, fuses, surge diverters, transformers
- maintaining at least five (5) of the following types of components: cantilever hardware, insulators, head span, pull-offs, push-offs, registration fittings, steady span, tension regulators, cross spans, tramway support network, pendulum, rigid rail conductor
- maintaining at least two (2) of the following types of fittings: preformed fittings, compression fittings, wedge fittings, bolted splices, fork collar sockets, conical splices
- maintaining at least three (3) of the following types of connecting components: feeders (drops, cross track), dissimilar conductors, lugs, bolted clamp, drapes/potential jumper, droppers
- using at least two (2) of the following required for maintaining overhead traction components and equipment: voltage detectors, micrometer/gauge, tension wrench, dynamometer, specialised tools
- dealing with an unplanned event on at least one (1) occasion
- completing relevant work records, reports and documentation
Knowledge evidence
- relevant legislation, regulations standards, codes of practice and organisational workplace requirements, including: WHS/OHS
- hazard, risk assessment and risk control requirements, including potential hazards
- types and application of PPE
- safe use of plant, tools and equipment
- application, purpose and types of permits
- overhead traction components and equipment maintenance documents
- types and purpose of overhead traction equipment, including: switches/isolators, fuse switches, dropout fuses, links, section insulators, neutral sections, surge diverters, transformers, fuses
- types and purpose of overhead components, including: cantilever hardware, droppers, span or bay components, portal hardware, head span hardware, section insulators, neutral sections, registration fittings, steady span, tension regulators, cross spans, low clearance components
- types of conductors used for overhead wiring, including: copper hard-drawn, copper cadmium, copper tin-bearing, aluminium, steel, other alloyed conductors, rigid rail conductor
- types of traction wire support structures, including: portals, cantilevers, twin track cantilevers, drop vertical, head spans, cross spans, pull-offs, push-offs
- types and purpose of ancillary equipment, including: surge arresters, booster, auxiliary transformers
- methods for replacing conductors, including the use of: preformed fittings, compression fittings, wedged fittings, bolted splices, lugs, bolted clamps, fork collar sockets, conical splices
- methods for replacing components, including: feeders (drops, cross track), droppers, dissimilar conductors, jumpers, surge arresters
- use of plant and equipment for maintenance work, including: elevated work platforms (EWPs), ladders, works trains, rail-mounted overhead wiring equipment/vehicles, road/rail height access machinery/vehicles, voltage detectors, micrometer/gauges, tension wrenches, dynamometers, other specialised tools
- maintenance of overhead traction equipment and components, including: maintenance/repair procedures, inspection and recording procedures
- diagnosis and correction of simple faults in specific overhead traction equipment and components, including: types and causes, determination of appropriate corrective actions
- events constituting an unplanned event or incident
- procedures for responding to an unplanned event or incident
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