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SOUTH AFRICAN QUALIFICATIONS AUTHORITY 
REGISTERED UNIT STANDARD THAT HAS PASSED THE END DATE: 

Design lighting systems 
SAQA US ID UNIT STANDARD TITLE
9843  Design lighting systems 
ORIGINATOR
SGB Electrical Engineering & Construction 
PRIMARY OR DELEGATED QUALITY ASSURANCE FUNCTIONARY
-  
FIELD SUBFIELD
Field 12 - Physical Planning and Construction Electrical Infrastructure Construction 
ABET BAND UNIT STANDARD TYPE PRE-2009 NQF LEVEL NQF LEVEL CREDITS
Undefined  Regular  Level 5  Level TBA: Pre-2009 was L5  7 
REGISTRATION STATUS REGISTRATION START DATE REGISTRATION END DATE SAQA DECISION NUMBER
Passed the End Date -
Status was "Registered" 		 2002-06-12  2005-06-12  SAQA 0742/02 
LAST DATE FOR ENROLMENT LAST DATE FOR ACHIEVEMENT
2006-06-12   2009-06-12  

In all of the tables in this document, both the pre-2009 NQF Level and the NQF Level is shown. In the text (purpose statements, qualification rules, etc), any references to NQF Levels are to the pre-2009 levels unless specifically stated otherwise.  

This unit standard does not replace any other unit standard and is not replaced by any other unit standard. 

PURPOSE OF THE UNIT STANDARD 
This unit standard is for persons in the Electrical Engineering; Generation; Distribution; Transmission, Construction and Renewable Energy Sector .

A person credited with this unit standard will be able to:
  • Plan and prepare work activity
  • Design a lighting system
  • Write Maintenance Schedules
  • Write Maintenance Procedures
  • Complete The Work Task

    This unit standard will contribute to the full development of the learner within the electrical engineering and construction environment by providing recognition, further mobility and transportability within the field of Physical Planning and Construction. The skills, knowledge and understanding demonstrated within this unit standard are essential for social and economic transformation and upliftment within the electrical engineering and construction environment. 
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    LEARNING ASSUMED TO BE IN PLACE AND RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING 
    The following knowledge, skills attitude and / or equivalent:
  • Introduction to industry and operational area
  • Apply and adhere to electrical safety.
  • Install luminaires.
  • Identify, interpret and lay out of drawings.
  • Use and care for hand tools.
  • Use and care for portable power tools.
  • Record instrument readings
  • Select, use and care for electrical measuring instruments.
  • Install electrical cables and conductors.
  • Interpret single-phase diagrams.
  • Joint and fault trace cables.
  • Maintain lighting systems
  • Auditing and specialised repairs on luminaires
  • Computer literacy 
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    UNIT STANDARD RANGE 
  • Designing methods may include but are not limited to:
    a. Lumen method of calculation as given in SABS 0114
    b. Lumen method of calculation as given by manufacturers catalogues
    c. Computer designing programs
  • Lighting systems may include but are not limited to:
    a. Office lighting with incandescent lamps
    b. Office lighting by means of fluorescent lamps
    c. Office lighting by means of compact fluorescent lamps
    d. Industrial lighting by means of high intensity discharge (HID) lamps
    e. Street lighting by means of high intensity lighting service )HID) lamps
  • Maintenance schedules may include but is not limited to schedules for:
    a. Routine maintenance
    b. Planed maintenance
    c. On the job faultfinding 
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    Specific Outcomes and Assessment Criteria: 

    SPECIFIC OUTCOME 1 
    Plan and prepare work activity. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERIA     

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 1 
    1. Job instructions are communicated with team leader according to work site procedures. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 2 
    2. Appropriate documentation is acquired according to work site procedures and customer requirements. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 3 
    3. Appropriate area to be illuminated is identified according to work site procedure and customer requirements. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 4 
    4. Affected parties are informed and liased with according to work site procedures. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 5 
    5. Appropriate designing equipment, recyclable materials and consumables are identified, selected and checked for defects according to statutory requirements and work site procedures. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 6 
    6. Corrective actions are taken with reference to designing equipment, recyclable materials and consumables according to work site procedure. 

    SPECIFIC OUTCOME 2 
    Design a lighting system. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERIA     

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 1 
    1. Appropriate designing equipment, recyclable materials and consumables are organised according to work site procedures. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 2 
    2. Appropriate designing equipment, recyclable materials and consumables are effectively used to carry out the job. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 3 
    3. Circuits are designed according to job instructions, SABS 0142-1-1, SABS 0114 and work site procedures. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 4 
    4. Safety, good housekeeping and correct environmental practices are followed before, during and after performance. 

    SPECIFIC OUTCOME 3 
    Write maintenance schedules. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERIA     

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 1 
    1. Appropriate recyclable materials and consumables are organised according to work site procedures. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 2 
    2. Appropriate recyclable materials and consumables are effectively used to carry out the job. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 3 
    3. Maintenance schedules are written according to job instructions and work site procedures. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 4 
    4. Safety and good housekeeping practices are followed before, during and after performance. 

    SPECIFIC OUTCOME 4 
    Write maintenance procedures. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERIA     

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 1 
    1. Appropriate recyclable materials and consumables are organised according to work site procedures. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 2 
    2. Appropriate recyclable materials and consumables are effectively used to carry out the job. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 3 
    3. Maintenance procedures are written according to job instructions and work site procedures. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 4 
    4. Safety and good housekeeping practices are followed before, during and after performance. 

    SPECIFIC OUTCOME 5 
    Complete the work task. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERIA     

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 1 
    1. Documentation is completed and processed according to company procedures. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 2 
    2. Appropriate designing equipment, recyclable materials and unused/half used consumables are stored according to work site procedures. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 3 
    3. Work area is restored to a clean and safe condition according to work site procedures. 

    ASSESSMENT CRITERION 4 
    4. Completion of job and end of shift is reported according to work site procedures. 


    UNIT STANDARD ACCREDITATION AND MODERATION OPTIONS 
  • Anyone assessing a learner against this unit standard must be registered as an assessor with the relevant ETQA.
  • Any institution offering learning that will enable achievement of this unit standard must be accredited as a provider through the relevant ETQA by SAQA.
  • Moderation of assessment will be overseen by the relevant ETQA according to the moderation guidelines in the relevant qualification and the agreed ETQA procedures. 
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    UNIT STANDARD ESSENTIAL EMBEDDED KNOWLEDGE 
  • Appropriate sections of the Occupational health safety act, and environmental statuary requirements for the activity
  • Applicable work site procedures
  • Applicable manufacturers` specifications
  • Job instructions
  • Documentation required for the activity
  • Communication and teamwork principles
  • Reporting systems
  • Ingress protection ratings
  • Identification, location and function of appropriate design equipment and consumable
  • Effect of poisonous, toxic and dangerous materials on the human body
  • Names and functions of lamps, luminaires and luminaire components
  • Construction of lamps
  • Working principles of control gear, control gear components and lamps are theoretically and practically explained as well as scientifically and mathematically proven
  • Advantages and disadvantages of lamps and luminaire components
  • Uses of lamps and luminaire components
  • Factors causing loss of light emitted by lamps
  • Specialist information
  • Routine maintenance
  • Planed maintenance
  • On the job faultfinding
  • Nature of light
  • Light production
  • Light control
  • Colour
  • Light and the eye
  • Phenomena of vision
  • Fundamental pautherisationometry
  • Intensity distribution diagrams and calculations
  • Illumination calculations
  • Pautherisationometry
  • Daylight
  • Lighting materials
  • Interior lighting applications
  • Exterior lighting
  • Economics
  • Designing methods
  • Company`s buying policy 
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    Critical Cross-field Outcomes (CCFO): 

    UNIT STANDARD CCFO IDENTIFYING 
  • Identify and solve problems (Identification of defects).
  • Understand the world as a set of related systems communicate (Consequences of incorrect using of products). 
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    UNIT STANDARD CCFO WORKING 
    Work effectively with others (Organise material schedules with team members). 

    UNIT STANDARD CCFO ORGANISING 
    Organise and manage oneself (Select and organise documentation and equipment). 

    UNIT STANDARD CCFO COLLECTING 
    Collect, analyse, organise and critically evaluate information (Adhere to installation sequence). 

    UNIT STANDARD CCFO COMMUNICATING 
    Communicate (Reporting of defects). 

    UNIT STANDARD CCFO SCIENCE 
    Use science and technology (Environmental and personal safety). 

    UNIT STANDARD NOTES 
    Specified requirements include legal and legislative specific requirements and are contained in one or more of the following documents:
  • OHSA act no 85 of 1993
  • Mines and Mineral Act
  • SABS specifications
  • Manufacturers manuals
    Applicable statutory requirements
    A glossary of terms about the terminology of
  • Advantages and disadvantages of lamps and luminaire components may include but are not limited to:
    a. Price
    b. Availability
    c. Expected life span
    d. Power consumed
    e. Time to emit maximum light
  • Affected parties may include but are not limited to:
    a. Production
    b. Energy control section
  • Areas to be illuminated may include but are not limited to:
    a. Domestic, learning institution and office areas
    b. Industrial areas
    c. Hazardous areas
    d. Streets
  • Buying policy may include but are not limited to:
    a. Hand driven system
    b. Computer driven system
  • Circuits may include but are not limited to circuits for:
    a. Domestic, learning institution and office lighting systems
    b. Industrial lighting systems
    c. Hazardous area lighting systems
    d. Streetlight lighting systems
  • Colour may include but are not limited to:
    a. Visible spectrum
    b. Colour mixing
    c. Colour rendition of light sources
    d. Colour matching
    e. Colour specification
  • Communications and teamwork principles may include but are not limited to:
    a. Questions and answers
    b. Discussions
    c. Depending on the help of somebody else to do a job
  • Construction of lamps may include but are not limited to:
    a. Outer envelope
    b. Discharge tube
    c. Connection cap
    d. Getter
  • Consumables may include but are not limited to:
    a. Stiffies
    b. CDs
    c. Stationary
    d. Pencils
    e. Rubbers
  • Control gear may include but are not limited to:
    a. Switch start, Semi-Resunant start, Rapid start, Slimline and Electronic ballasts for fluorescent lamp circuits
    b. Switch start and Electronic start ballasts for compact fluorescent lamp circuits
    c. Mercury vapour control gear
    d. Metal Halide control gear
    e. High Pressure Sodium control gear
    f. Low Pressure Sodium control gear
  • Control gear components may include but are not limited to:
    a. Choke
    b. Capacitor
    c. Ignitor
    d. Wiring
    e. Fuses
    f. Connection blocks with screw connectors
  • Daylight may include but are not limited to:
    a. Nature and variation factors in a room
    b. Determination of daylight and sky factors
  • Designing equipment may include but are not limited to:
    a. Drawing boards
    b. Luminaire manufacturer`s specifications
    c. Stencils
    d. Scale rulers
  • Documentation may include but are not limited to:
    a. Checklists
    b. Job cards
  • Economics may include but are not limited to:
    a. Cost analysis
    b. Capital
    c. Energy
    d. Interest
    e. Assessment
  • Environmental practices may include but are not limited to correct methods of disposing of material containing:
    a. Galvanise
    b. Silicon
    c. Cadmium
    d. Fiberglas
    e. Safety solvent
    f. Cleaning agents
    g. Plastics
    h. Poisonous ink
    i. Tipp-Ex thinners
  • Exterior lighting may include but are not limited to:
    a. Street lighting
    b. Pedestrian and residential areas
    c. Decorative floodlighting
    d. Floodlighting
    e. Water features
  • Factors causing loss of light may include but are not limited to:
    a. Lamp lumen depreciation
    b. Dirt on lamps and luminaires
    c. Lamp outages
    d. Depreciation of luminaire surfaces
    e. Dirt on room surfaces
    f. Temperature and voltages
  • Factors to consider while writing maintenance schedules and procedures for lighting systems may include but are not limited to:
    a. Use the correct voltage
    b. Use special lamps for vibration conditions
    c. Use lamps and lamp holders with the same watt-value
    d. Use lamps and luminaires with the same watt-value
    e. Don`t clean a worm bulb with a wet cloth
    f. Mount the bulb in the position that it is designed for
    g. Don`t change the lamp before the power is switched off
  • Fundamental pautherisationometry may include but are not limited to:
    a. Pautherisationometric concepts
    b. Pautherisationometric definitions and units
    c. Relationship between units
    d. Pautherisationometric terms
    e. Primary standard of light
    f. Pautherisationometric laws
  • Good housekeeping practices may include but are not limited to practices given by:
    a. OHS-ACT
    b. Work site procedures
  • Illumination calculation may include but are not limited to:
    a. Point, line and surface sources
    b. Illumination diagrams
  • Ingress protection rating may include but are not limited to:
    a. Protection of persons against access to hazardous parts
    b. Protection against water
    c. Mechanical protection
  • Installing procedure may include but are not limited to:
    a. Manufacturers` maintenance manuals
    b. Company maintenance manuals
  • Intensity distribution diagrams and calculations may include but are not limited to:
    a. Classification of intensity distribution
    b. Polar curve
    c. Iso-candela diagrams
    d. Light flux calculations
  • Interior lighting application may include but are not limited to:
    a. Office lighting
    b. Commercial lighting
    c. School lighting
    d. Domestic lighting
    e. Visual display units
  • Job instruction may include but are not limited to instructions from:
    a. Job cards
    b. Team leader
  • Job instruction format may include but is not limited to:
    a. Written or verbal form
    b. Formal or informal methods
  • Job of team leader may include but are not limited to:
    a. Written or verbal form
    b. Formal or informal methods
  • Job of team leader may include but are not limited to:
    a. Organise activity by issuing instructions
    b. Supervise
    c. Organise authorisation work permits (If necessary)
    d. Organise special scaffolding (If necessary)
    e. Arrange for informative meetings with manufacturers, distributors, suppliers
  • Lamps may include but are not limited to:
    a. Incandescent lamps (GENERAL LIGHTING SERVICE, Tungsten halogen, compact sources)
    b. Low pressure mercury vapour lamps (Switch start, Semi?resonant, Rapid start, Slimline, Compact fluorescent)
    c. High intensity discharge lamps (Metal Halide, High Pressure Mercury Vapour, High Pressure Sodium, Low pressure Sodium)
  • Light and the eye may include but are not limited to:
    a. Structure of the eye
    b. Defects of vision
    c. Accommodation
    d. Fixation
    e. Contrast
    f. Sensitivity
    g. Visibility curve
    h. Purkinje effect
  • Light control may include but are not limited to:
    a. Absorption
    b. Transmission
    c. Reflection
    d. Critical angle and total internal refraction
    e. Refraction by parallel sided blocks and prisms
  • Lighting materials may include but are not limited to:
    a. Methods of light control
    b. Absorbing materials
    c. Reflecting materials
    d. Refracting materials
    e. Luminaire construction
  • Light production may include but are not limited to:
    a. Thermo-luminescence
    b. Electro-luminescence
    c. Photo-luminescence
  • Luminaires may include but are not limited to:
    a. Luminaires for use in the domestic, learning institution and office environment
    b. Luminaires for use in the industrial environment
    c. Luminaires for use in hazardous areas
    d. Luminaires for street lighting
    e. Luminaires for emergency lighting
    f. Luminaires for use in the sport field environment
  • Luminaire components may include but are not limited to:
    a. Luminaire box
    b. Enclosing bowl
    c. Reflector
    d. Choke
    e. Capacitor
    f. Ignitor
    g. Wiring
    h. Fuses
  • Luminaires for use in the domestic, learning institution and office environment may include but are not limited to:
    a. Chandeliers
    b. Wall mounted luminaires
    c. Down lighters
    d. Bulkheads
    e. Fluorescent luminaires
  • Luminaires for emergency lighting may include but are not limited to:
    a. Luminaires with systems activated by voltage drops
    b. Luminaires with systems activated when the supply fails which is divided as:
    1. Maintained systems
    2. Non-maintained systems
  • Luminaires for streetlights may include but are not limited to:
    a. Pole mounted luminaires
    b. Post top mounted luminaires
  • Luminaires for use in hazardous areas may include but are not limited to:
    a. Luminaires with flameproof protection
    b. Luminaires with increased safety protection
    c. Luminaires with non-sparking protection
    d. Luminaires which is dust tight, dust proof, dust ignition and hose proof
  • Luminaires for use in the industrial environment may include but are not limited to:
    a. High bay luminaires
    b. Low bay luminaires
    c. Bulkheads
    d. Floodlights
  • Luminaires for use in the sport field environment may include but are not limited to:
    a. Floodlights
    b. Spotlights
  • Manufacturers` specifications may include but is not limited to:
    a. Dimensions of components,
    b. Weight of components,
    c. Type of material from which components were manufactured as given in:
    1. Manufacturers` maintenance manuals
    2. Manufacturer catalogues
    3. Company maintenance manuals
  • Nature of light may include but are not limited to:
    a. Radiation
    b. Visible spectrum
    c. Production of the spectrum
    d. The prism spectroscope
    e. Spectra of common light sources
    f. Spectral energy distribution diagrams
    g. Colour of light
    h. Polarisation
    i. Production and absorption of polarised light
    j. Polarisation of reflection
    k. Uses of polarisation
  • On the job faultfinding may include but are not limited to:
    a. Faultfinding on a single phase system
    b. Faultfinding on a three phase system
  • Organised may include but are not limited to:
    a. Placing of luminaires, material, work platforms and consumables on strategic places for safe, quick and easy use
    b. Positioning of luminaires, material, work platforms and consumables in the sequence that it is going to be used
  • Phenomena of vision may include but is not limited to:
    a. Adaptation
    b. Persistence of vision
    c. Glare
    d. Visual acuity
    e. Fatigue
    f. Contrast
    g. Speed of vision
  • Pautherisationometry may include but is not limited to:
    a. Basis of visual pautherisationometry
    b. Bench pautherisationometry
    c. Sub-standard lamps
    d. Pautherisationometer heads
    e. Screening
    f. Methods of use and measurement
    g. Calibration
    h. Measuring instruments
  • Personal safety may include but are not limited to:
    a. Assuring safe conditions as given by OHS-ACT
    b. Acting safely as given by OHS-ACT
  • Planed maintenance may include but is not limited to:
    a. Cleaning
    b. Inspecting of components
    c. Relamping
    d. Checking the power factor
    e. Testing for broken Neutral conductor
  • Poisonous, toxic and dangerous materials may include but are not limited to:
    a. Fiberglas
    b. Galvanise
    c. Cadmium
    d. Safety solvent
    e. Cleaning agents
    f. Fluorescent powder
    g. Plastics
    h. Poisonous ink
    i. Tipp-Ex thinners
  • Policy procedure may include but are not limited to:
    a. Methods of communicating
    b. Methods of completing documentation
    c. Methods of selecting personal safety equipment, tools, consumables, etc.
    d. Checklists
  • Practical safety may include but are not limited to:
    a. Using of computer screens
  • Processed may include but are not limited to:
    a. Handed to team leader
    b. Posted to planner
    c. Filed
  • Recyclable material may include but are not limited to:
    a. Scrap paper
    b. Boxes
  • Reporting system may include but is not limited to:
    a. Documentation (electronic of paper)
    b. Verbal feedback
  • Routine maintenance may include but is not limited to:
    a. Check for lamps that do not illuminate and repair faulty luminaire components
    b. Check for broken luminaires and repair damaged luminaire components
    c. Check for poor light output and repair problem
    d. Check for lamps that is fluctuating or that goes on and off with short intervals
  • Safety will include but are not limited to:
    a. Personal safety
    b. Practical safety
    c. Safety on equipment
  • Safety on equipment may include but are not limited to:
    a. Hazards when disposing of designing equipment
  • Special measuring instruments may include but are not limited to:
    a. Lux meter
  • Specialist information may include but are not limited to:
    a. Power factor of lamps that change with ageing of lamps
    b. Voltage drop that increase across the arc tube of a high intensity discharge lamp with ageing of lamps
    c. Cycling of certain lamps
    d. Wrong control gear and control gear components for specific lamps
    e. GENERAL LIGHTING SERVICE lamps without fuses
  • Statutory requirements may include but is not limited to:
    a. OHS Act,
    b. Mines and Mineral act.
    c. SABS 0114
    d. SABS 0142-1
    e. Local Authority requirements
  • Supervise may include but are not limited to:
    a. Inspect quality of work done
    b. Identifying hazards
    c. Writing of procedures
  • Team leader may include but are not limited to:
    a. A qualified luminaire maintainer
    b. Supervisor
    c. Superintendent
  • Uses of lamps and luminaire components may include but are not limited to illuminating:
    a. Public buildings
    b. Sports grounds
    c. Factories
    d. Railway stations
    e. Parking areas
    f. Boats
  • Work area may include but are not limited to:
    a. Offices
    b. Workshops
    c. Processing machinery
  • Working facility may include but are not limited to:
    a. Work bench
    b. Luminaire test table
  • Working principles may include but are not limited to:
    a. Starting and restarting of lamps, emission of light, positive/negative temperature coefficient of materials
    b. Limiting of current, generating of high voltage starting pulses and correcting of the power factor
  • Work site procedures may include but are not limited to Company`s:
    a. Safety procedures as given in Safety manuals
    b. Policy procedures as given in Policy manuals
    c. Installing procedures as given in Manufacturers` and Company maintenance manuals
    d. Maintaining procedure given in Manufacturers` and Company maintenance manuals 
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    QUALIFICATIONS UTILISING THIS UNIT STANDARD: 
      ID QUALIFICATION TITLE PRE-2009 NQF LEVEL NQF LEVEL STATUS END DATE PRIMARY OR DELEGATED QA FUNCTIONARY
    Elective  20420   National Certificate: Electrical Engineering  Level 4  NQF Level 04  Passed the End Date -
    Status was "Registered"     		 2004-02-10  Was EWSETA until Last Date for Achievement 


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