Unit of competency

Modification History

Application

This unit of competency describes the skills and knowledge required to follow workplace directions and instructions while observing permaculture principles and practices.

Permaculture work can be carried out in the community, home, school and permaculture or community gardens and farms.

This unit applies to individuals who work alongside a supervisor in most situations and exercise limited autonomy within established and well known parameters. They identify and seek help with simple problems.

No occupational licensing, legislative or certification requirements are known to apply to this unit at the time of publication

Pre-requisite Unit

Nil.

Unit Sector

Permaculture (PER)

Elements and Performance Criteria

Foundation Skills

Foundation Skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.

Range of Conditions

Unit Mapping Information

New unit - equivalent to QLD841PPP01B.

Links

Companion Volume implementation guides are found in VETNet - https://vetnet.gov.au/Pages/TrainingDocs.aspx?q=c6399549-9c62-4a5e-bf1a-524b2322cf72

Assessment requirements

Modification History

Performance Evidence

The candidate must be assessed on their ability to integrate and apply the performance requirements of this unit in a workplace setting. Performance must be demonstrated consistently over time and in a suitable range of contexts.

The candidate must provide evidence that they can:

• communicate with supervisors and workplace colleagues
• recognise basic environmental influences
• contribute to improved permaculture work practices

Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

• permaculture

• ethics – earth care, people care, fair share
• principles – at this level, limited to the trainer/supervisor’s interpretation and simplification of those contained in the two seminal permaculture text books (Mollison 1988 and Holmgren 2002)

• good practice approaches to minimising environmental hazards and risks

• producing no waste
• thinking globally and acting locally
• observing nature and learning from her patterns
• responding to change creatively and with consideration for the needs of all users of and/or elements in the system
• learning from mistakes and developing successes

• factors to improve environmental performance in regard to water catchments, ecosystems, habitat, efficient use of resources, sustainability and waste minimisation
• factors to improve community issues, especially in regard to caring for people, sharing surpluses and setting limits to growth
• environmental issues and their potential impacts

• sustainability of land use and agricultural work practices
• reduction and disposal of waste
• improvements to water quality
• improvements to air quality
• energy efficiency
• biodiversity and habitat protection
• conservation of natural resources
• wild-fire management and mitigation
• food, water and energy security
• human rights and right livelihood

Assessment Conditions

Assessors must satisfy current standards for RTOs. Assessors must also hold a nationally accredited Certificate III (or higher) in Permaculture to assess this unit of competency and/or have completed a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) and/or have completed the Permaculture Demonstrator Skill Set.

Links

Companion Volume implementation guides are found in VETNet - https://vetnet.gov.au/Pages/TrainingDocs.aspx?q=c6399549-9c62-4a5e-bf1a-524b2322cf72