Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.
Required skills
analytical skills to interpret test equipment settings and readings
communication skills to liaise with customers and technical staff to ensure requirements are known and can be met within timeframes
literacy skills to interpret technical specifications and related documentation
numeracy skills to make calculations
planning and organisational skills to arrange site access and organise equipment
problem solving to account for unexpected faults or equipment configuration anomalies
safety awareness skills to:
apply precautions and required action to minimise, control or eliminate hazards that may exist during work activities
select and use required personal protective equipment conforming to industry and OHS standards
work systematically with required attention to detail without injury to self or others, or damage to goods or equipment
technical skills to:
correctly test and carry out commissioning procedures
install supporting structures
terminate cables
use hand tools for removing and securing equipment covers.
Required knowledge
electrical and or optical properties to be measured
extensive range of networking equipment
legislation and licensing surrounding installation of telecommunications equipment
network operation procedures
power requirements and electrical safety
test equipment types
transmission type and signals that may be encountered.
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.
OHS requirements may include: | decommissioning and isolating worksite and lines prior to commencement identifying other services: gas power personal protective clothing: earmuffs gloves: leather plastic rubber head protection kneepads masks protective suits safety boots safety glasses for laser work safe working practices, such as the safe use and handling of: asbestos chemicals materials tools and equipment work platforms safety equipment: flashing lights gas and other hazard detection equipment safety barriers trench guards warning signs and tapes witches hats special access requirements suitable light and ventilation. |
Hazards may include: | earth potential rise (EPR): optical fibre cable: bare fibres hazardous laser light radio frequency (RF) equipment emitting radiation remote power feeding services which operate at above telecommunications network voltage (TNV). |
Network operations personnel may include: | alarm operations network operations centre staff network operations manager project manager. |
Electronic unit may relate to: | biometrics internet protocol TV (IPTV) multiplexing RFID surveillance VoIP. |
Planned outage may refer to: | allocation of additional services and support notification to affected customers plan for: redundant path standby equipment. |
Test equipment may include: | bit error rate (BER) testers communication system analysers digital analysers laser sources magnetic error reduction (MER) meters microwave link analysers modulation analysers multimeters optical attenuators optical fibre power meters oscillators oscilloscopes optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) pattern generators power meters RF microwave test sets RF sweep testers signal level meters (SLM) spectrum analysers transmission measuring sets voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) meters. |
Affected customers may include: | building owner communications consultant contractor to a major supplier end users equipment owner householder operations staff. |
Contingency plans may include: | additional notification to affected customers additional technical support provision of: additional services redundant path standby equipment. |
Appropriate person may include: | customer design engineer network operations manager project manager supervisor. |
Administrative tasks may refer to: | checking correct labelling of all equipment and amending where required completing job orders and submitting to appropriate enterprise organisational unit completing test sheets according to specification and logging test instrument usage following quality control procedures handing over installation briefs, documents and equipment manuals to operational staff providing customers with a telecommunications cabling advice (TCA) form, such as TCA1 or equivalent form recording test results and updating appropriate data bases updating design specifications and returning to design area as required by enterprise requirements. |
Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.
Observation Checklist