WASTEWATER TREATMENT OPERATOR LIFECYCLE DELIVERY – MAINTENANCE DELIVERY
Element of Competence:
Maintaining Specified Building Systems
Context
Under the Building Act [2] buildings that contain safety and essential systems, known as specified system, need a compliance schedule. Wastewater Treatment Plants often include buildings which require a compliance schedule. This means that they require an ongoing inspection and maintenance to ensure that the specified systems function as required.
Outcome
The buildings warrant of fitness (BWoF) is renewed every 12 months, and is signed, issued and publicly displayed to prove the building’s specified systems have been maintained and inspected.
To do this, Wastewater Treatment Operators need to be able to: ▪ Obtain a compliance schedule where one is required under the Building Act [2]. ▪ Publicly display a compliance schedule statement in their building for the first 12month period from the issue of the compliance schedule. ▪ Ensure all the inspection, maintenance and reporting procedures for the specified systems stated in the compliance schedule for their building have been carried out and that those systems are performing, and will continue to perform, to the performance standards. ▪ Engage an Independent Qualified Person (IQP) to undertake the inspection, maintenance and reporting procedures listed on the compliance schedule and obtain a Certificate of Compliance with Inspection, Maintenance and Reporting Procedures (Form 12A). ▪ Provide the BWoF annually to the building team of the council (ensuring the Form 12A certificates from the IQP(s) are attached) and publicly display a copy of this for the next 12 months. ▪ Obtain and keep reports detailing inspections, maintenance and repairs from the people who have carried out the work. These need to be kept with the compliance schedule for at least two years after they have been issued. To do this, Wastewater Treatment Operators need to know: ▪ That the Ministry of Building, Innovation and Employment has published a Compliance Schedule Handbook to provide guidance on the requirements of Compliance Schedules and Building Warrants of Fitness.
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