New CoC requirements
New CoC requirements
Following significant lobbying from industry, WorkSafe gazzetted new requirements for a Site Specific Certificate of Competence (CoC) on
1st August 2018.
Included in the notice are a clearer definition of "workings", which impacts on the experience required for various CoCs, and specific unit standards required for a First Aid Certificate.
In order to apply for a Site Specific CoC your site must meet the following criteria:
- No more than four workers, including the applicant, ordinarily work at the site
- Explosives are not used
- Excavations are no more than 5 metres deep
- There are no voids or underground workings
- No work is carried out below a body of fluid material
- The actual processing rate does not exceed an average of 1,000 tonnes per week
- The quarry will be operating for a period or periods that total at least 24 months
- Any tip head or stockpiles at the operation are less than five metres high.
An applicant will be required to have met the 6 units standards required for a Site specific CoC and must have at least nine months experience in more than one of the following types of work in a quarry, mine, coal mine, opencast coal mine or tunnel (as it applies to this CoC):
- load
- haul
- processing
- stockyard loadout.
Applicants will be required to sit an oral exam for a Site Specific CoC.
Further details can be found using the following link:
https://worksafe.govt.nz/about-us/news-and-media/amendments-to-certificate-of-competency-coc-requirements/
WorkSafe has also produced this guide to assist.
Wayne Scott
CEO
MinEx