Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2014L01684:reg:10:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2014L01684
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 10 (pt 3/32)
Character Range: 33228–36470

for telecommunications (phones and facsimile), data including video and multimedia, security and alarms, and fire protection.

Note   The application and critical performance requirements for open cabling work include those specified for restricted cabling work in Part 3.

2.2 Key subject matter and practical experience areas for open cabling work
Specified below are the subject matter and practical experience areas which a cabling provider must demonstrate basic knowledge of, or minimum competence in, to obtain a registration to perform open cabling work.

A cabling provider who wishes to perform open cabling work of a particular type must obtain the relevant competencies for that type of open cabling work. For example, a cabling provider who wishes to perform structured or optical fibre open cabling work must obtain the competencies relevant to structured or optical fibre open cabling work by completing the relevant training units. (See the Pathways document for more details.)

Cabling environment:
       *   Indoor environments include locations such as ceilings, false ceilings, riser shafts, internal wall space, under floor, damp situations and workstations;
       *   Outdoor environments including cable installations on external walls, and underground and aerial cabling on private and public property;
       *   Underground cabling includes shared trenches with electrical LV/HV cables and other utilities; and
       *   Aerial cabling installations may include the sharing of poles and structures with LV/HV electrical power cables and terminations.

Cable support systems:
       *   Suspension catenary wire, ducts, cable trays, line poles, pipes, pits; and
       *   Cable support systems to wall and island mounted patched and jumperable distributors including campus distributors, building distributors, floor distributors and local distributors.

Note   Cable trays may be galvanised steel or PVC.  Perforated low or high sided, single or multi channel cable ducts may be closed, open, PVC, metal, single or multiple channel.

Cable types:
       *   Aerial
       *   Coaxial
       *   Copper twisted pair
       *   Data cables: eg. Category 5, 6, 6A, 7
       *    External
       *   Indoor
       *   Optic fibre
       *   Underground
       *   Copper twisted pair from two pair upwards but must include two, three and four pair and at least one larger cable (50 pair or greater).

Cable identification:
       *   Cable conductor identification codes may be colour coded, banded, numbered or lettered.

Termination systems:
       *   Network termination device (NTD);
       *   Socket types: Australian modular socket, Mode 3 alarm socket or United States modular;
       *   At least one jumperable distributor (campus distributor or building distributor) with a capacity of 50 pair or greater; and
       *   A non-jumperable distributor (local distributor) and a patch panel must be terminated.

Earthing and protection systems:
       *   Installation of protective earth(s) for over voltage and surge/spike suppression;
       *   Installation of protective earth barriers for segregation, cable tray, duct and metal equipment enclosures;
       *   Running of equi-potential bonding