Certificate III in Nursery Operations - AHC31120
Advance Community College
Type of institution: Registered Training Organisation
Level: Pre-degree
CRICOS:
This qualification describes the skills and knowledge for trade level roles carried out under broad supervision in the nursery production and retail nursery industry. It is assumed that participants undertaking this qualification as a direct entry qualification would have nursery or horticulture industry experience prior to undertaking this qualification.Individuals with this qualification perform tasks autonomously involving a broad range of skills that are applied in a wide variety of contexts, which will involve discretion and judgement in planning tasks, selecting and operating equipment, coordinating resources and applying contingency measures during work.Work must comply with work health and safety and environmental regulations and legislation that apply to the workplace.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.
Subjects
- Recognise plants
- Troubleshoot irrigation systems
- Control plant pests, diseases and disorders
- Produce visual merchandise displays
- Operate within a budget framework
- Prepare and apply chemicals to control pest, weeds and diseases
- Apply biosecurity measures
- Implement a propagation plan
- Maintain store security
- Assist with soil or growing media sampling and testing
- Operate tractors
- Promote sales of plants
- Identify and report signs of unusual disease or pest
- Work effectively in a biosecurity emergency response
- Plan a growing-on program
- Transport and store chemicals
- Operate machinery and equipment
- Operate specialised machinery and equipment
- Maintain pressurised irrigation systems
- Coordinate visual merchandising activities
- Respond to emergencies
- Install and maintain plant displays
- Prepare specialised plants
- Install pressurised irrigation systems
- Coordinate work site activities
- Deliver and monitor a service to customers
- Operate quad bikes
- Operate irrigation controller and sensor technology
- Prepare growing media
- Process customer complaints
- Contribute to work health and safety processes
- Control weeds
- Receive and dispatch nursery products
- Operate fertigation equipment
- Measure irrigation delivery system performance
- Engage the customer
- Control stock
- Implement a plant nutrition program
- Implement a maintenance program for hydroponic systems
- Install hydroponic systems
- Apply environmentally sustainable work practices
- Maintain nursery plants
- Carry out movement and security procedures
- Monitor and operate water treatment processes
- Provide information on hardware products
- Licence to operate a forklift truck
- Implement an integrated pest management program
- Operate pressurised irrigation systems
- Identify plant specimens
- Carry out emergency disease or pest control procedures on infected premises
- Provide information on plants and their culture
- Sell products and services
- Advise on products and services
