SayPro Freight Handling 57831

The safe handling of freight is dependant upon the applicable people complying with the relevant procedures and applying the necessary skills to their handling. This Qualification, therefore, is aimed at providing learners in the Freight sector with:

• An integrated practical and theoretical grounding in Freight Handling.
• The ability to work more effectively with others.
• The skills necessary to maintain and enhance the level of service and quality of service expected by customers.
• An awareness and understanding of key business principles that lead to transformation, transferability, economic growth and social development in the freight handling industry.

  The key areas of specialisation identified within the Freight Handling Industry are as follows:

• Warehousing and Distribution.
• Port Operations.
• Stevedoring.
• Courier Operations.
• Bulk Handling.
• Airfreight.
• Forwarding and Clearing.

  Learners completing this Qualification, in whatever area of specialization selected, will be able to demonstrate the ability to consider a range of options related to their chosen field in order to make decisions and improve performance around, inter alia, freight handling administration, planning; goods handling, storage, transport planning, and basic freight handling equipment maintenance.

  Rationale:

  People involved in freight handling play a key role in the movement of goods since they represent the physical link that ensures that the freight is efficiently and safely handled. The required knowledge and skills can be used in many other goods handling environments or equally as well in a full warehousing environment. On-the-job experience can progressively lead to positions of more responsibility in the safe handling of goods and freight.

  The majority of learners for this Qualification are likely to be either unemployed persons wishing to enter the industry, or persons currently working in the greater freight handling sector that wish to improve their skills and enhance their own career path opportunities.

  The Qualification will provide learners with the opportunity to acquire the essential knowledge needed to further their studies in differing specialist areas within the transport sector of the South African economy.

  This Qualification reflects workplace-based needs in the wider Freight Handling Industry, both now and for the future. Freight Handling is diverse in its nature, so a fairly wide range of competencies are required by employees. The Qualification aims to provide the foundational and initial skills required for an individual in the industry to handle freight successfully; be an effective team member and undertake those tasks required to contribute to the effective processing of freight.

• Communication at NQF level 2 or equivalent.
• Mathematical Literacy at NQF level 2 or equivalent.

  Recognition of prior learning (RPL):

  Historically within the Freight Handling Industry, most employees have experience, but no formal underpinning knowledge. It is therefore essential to recognise prior learning and the application in the work place. Therefore the assessment processes will recognise experience and theoretical knowledge. Portfolios of evidence will be important contributions to the assessment process.

  All Recognition of Prior Learning is subject to quality assurance by the relevant accredited Education, Training, Quality, and Assurance Body.

  Access to the Qualification:

  This Qualification is open to everyone. However, access to certain unit standards (e.g. Operate defined purpose lift trucks) within the Qualification is limited where legislated and where physical and psychomotor requirements are specified in that particular unit standard. In some cases a license is required prior to commencement of learning or operation.

  It is advisable that learners should already have addressed the areas reflected under “Learning Assumed to be in Place” before embarking on learning towards this Qualification.

• All 36 credits allocated for Fundamental are compulsory.
• All 59 credits for Core are compulsory.
• A minimum of 33 credits must be selected by the learner from the 186 credits available in the Electives.

• The different modes of transport and transport services offered in South Africa are explained relevant to the area of specialization.
• The different types of businesses and their legal implications are explained with examples.
• The way in which the principles are applied is described with examples.

  2.

• The aim of the supply chain is explained according to the selected specialist stream.
• The role and function of the organisation within its supply chain(s) is explained according to international principles.

  3.

• The requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and in-house policies and practices concerning health and safety in the working environment are described and explained according to requirements.
• The requirements of industry specific environmental legislation polices and practices are explained with examples.
• The impact of HIV/AIDS and the handling of persons with HIV/AIDS are explained with examples.
• The effects of poor hygiene and health on the organisation and the country are explained using examples.

  4.

• Procedure for safe packing, handling and securing of freight are applied in accordance with standard operating procedures.
• Operating practices are complied with in the handling of freight according to legislation and regulations.
• Freight handling equipment is used and operated in accordance with safe and legislated requirements.

  Integrated assessment:

  Development of the competencies may be through a combination of informal and formal learning, self-learning, training programmes and work-based application. Providers should conduct diagnostic and formative assessment. Formative, continuous and diagnostic assessments should also take place in the work place. The learner should be able to assess him or herself and determine readiness for a summative assessment against this Qualification.

  Learning, teaching and assessment are inextricably linked. Whenever possible, the assessment of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values shown in the unit standards should be integrated.

  Assessment of communication, language, literacy and numeracy should be conducted in conjunction with other aspects and should use authentic Freight Handling contexts wherever possible.

  A variety of methods must be used in assessment and tools and activities must be appropriate to the context in which the learner is working. Where it is not possible to assess the learner in the workplace or on-the-job, simulations, case studies, role-plays and other similar techniques should be used to provide a context appropriate to the assessment. The term ‘Integrated Assessment’ implies that theoretical and practical components should be assessed together.

  Assessment should ensure that all Specific Outcomes, Embedded Knowledge and Critical Cross-Field Outcomes are evaluated. The assessment of the Critical Cross-Field Outcomes should be integrated with the assessment of Specific Outcomes and Embedded Knowledge.

Below are listed the Qualifications, Courses and Standards which were used in the comparability. Because the carriage of specific goods are regulated international agreements and technological advances, most areas were found to be of a similar nature, with some differences because of domestic regulations and conditions.

New Zealand Unit Standards:

Level 2 Unit Standards:

• Demonstrate knowledge of transport industry sectors (ID 13230, 2 Credits).

  Level 3 Unit Standards:

• Operate a powered industrial lift truck (PILT) fitted with attachments on a worksite (ID 10852 – 3 Credits).
• Operate a powered industrial lift truck fitted with forks (forklift) (ID 10851, 7 Credits).
• Demonstrate knowledge of the international freight forwarding industry (ID 21803 – 6 Credits).
• Prepare for freight forwarding of dangerous goods by sea (ID 21809, 3 Credits).
• Process import documentation that governs the carriage of international goods (ID 21806, 5 Credits).
• Select, cost, and recommend an international transport service and route for given consignments (ID 21805, 6 Credits).
• Select a rail transport unit for a given consignment and route (ID 13233, 2 Credits).
• Select an aircraft type for a given consignment and route (ID 13232, 2 Credits).

  Level 4 Unit Standards:

• Prepare for freight forwarding of dangerous goods by air (ID 21810, 6 Credits).
• Process export documentation that governs the carriage of international goods by air (ID 21808, 7 Credits).
• Process export documentation that governs the carriage of international goods by sea (ID 21807, 5 Credits).
• Cost distribution centre activities in a logistics operation (ID 19017, 4 Credits).
• Demonstrate knowledge of inventory management in a logistics operation (ID 19018, 12 Credits).
• Determine mode of transport for a given consignment (ID 19033, 4 Credits).

  Research showed a few similar unit standards do exist. However, it was difficult to benchmark with the New Zealand approach, which did not examine the different areas of specialization under one umbrella Qualification, but under separate distinctive Qualifications for different areas of specialisation.

  The Irish International Freight Association

  Programme Content covers topics such as:

• General knowledge of the Industry.
• Sea Transport.
• Road Transport.
• Air Transport.
• Customs Procedures.
• Warehousing/Logistics.
• Transport Insurance.
• Manual Handling Training (City and Guilds).

  The Irish International Freight Association (IIFA) Traineeship in Freight Forwarding programme that culminates in a: National Skills Certificate (NSC) and an internationally recognised International Federation of Freight Forwarders Association (FIATA) and International Air Transport Association (IATA) certification. Once again similarities were found as well minor differences that relate to local regulations and requirements.

  Other training programmes that were referred to are found in England and America. These programmes include:

  England

  Civil Aviation Authority:

• Training for Shippers.
• Training for Freight Forwarders.
• Training for Handling Agents.

  America

  Transport Training International:

• Freight Broker Training School.
• Introduction to the Freight Broker Industry.
• Owner Operator Academy.
• Freight Broker Authority.
• Motor Carrier Authority.
• Hazardous Material Permits.

  In both cases above the training courses showed very similar content with the exception of the USA which covered the transportation of motor vehicles in much more detail. It also had the subject of Freight Handling Brokers, which are not covered at all in the South African Qualification.

  Based on the above exercises it was very evident that many elements in all those areas covered by the comparability study showed the South African Qualification compared well with its international counterparts. As already stated the major differences come from local legislative issues and in the United States of America the training of Freight Handling Brokers.

Horizontal articulation possible with:

• National Certificate: Professional Driving, NQF Level 3, NLRD 50285
• National Certificate: Rail Operation, NQF Level 3, NLRD 23893
• National Certificate: Road Transport, NQF Level 3, NLRD 48437
• National Certificate: Freight Forwarding, NQF Level 3, NLRD 22442
• National Certificate: Customs Clearing, NQF Level 3, NLRD 22440

  Vertical progression is possible with:

• FET Certificate: Road Transport Management in the Public Sector, NQF Level 4, NLRD 49489
• FET Certificate: Road Transport Supervision, NQF Level 4, NLRD 48439
• FET Certificate: Shipping, NQF Level 4, NLRD 49155
• National Certificate: Rail Operations, NQF Level 4, NLRD 14498
• National Certificate: Customs Clearing, NQF Level 4, NLRD 44221
• National Certificate: Freight Forwarding, NQF Level 4, NLRD 22443

• Anyone assessing a learner or moderating the assessment of a learner against this Qualification must register as an assessor with the relevant Education and Training Quality Assurance (ETQA) Body.
• Any institution offering learning that will enable the achievement of this Qualification must be accredited as a provider with the relevant ETQA.
• Assessment and moderation of assessment will be overseen by the relevant ETQA according to the ETQA’s policies and guidelines for assessment and moderation; in terms of agreements reached around assessment and moderation between ETQA’s (including professional bodies); and in terms of the moderation guideline detailed immediately below.
• Moderation must include both internal and external moderation of assessments at exit points of the Qualification, unless ETQA policies specify otherwise. Moderation should encompass achievement of the competence described in the Qualification.

• An individual selecting any Elective Unit Standard dealing with the operation of machinery and/or equipment must ensure that an appropriate licence is obtained prior to the completion of the Unit Standard.
• It is required that Learners who access this Qualification build into their learning a theoretical understanding of lifting equipment to give them a greater appreciation of the greater industry and an understanding of the industry as a set of related systems.