Combined Fibre Hygiene (Skill 9) & Fibre Testing (Skill 12)

Course Overview

To increase your skill development, Milcom has a combined package that allows participants to complete the two following specialisations, for a special discount price.

• Fibre Hygiene (Skills 9)
• Fibre Testing (Skill 12)

On successful completion of the course and assessment requirements, participants will be issued a Statement of Attainment in accordance with the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) and the Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs). Participants will obtain a statement of attainment and a Certificate of Completion for Fibre hygiene and testing

It applies to line workers, technicians, or jointers working for carriers and/or service providers. It also applies to work performed under the direction of the relevant authority.

It applies to telecommunications lines workers who only use hand-held optical measuring instruments and those who engage in safe work practices as members of a team using emerging technologies to deliver very high-speed broadband capacity through the access network for the national broadband network (NBN) initiative.

After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

• inspect fibre connectors using inspection scopes
• clean connectors using approved methods
• handle optical fibre cable and connectors to prevent damage
• complete patching according to patching schedule and under the direction of the relevant authority
• follow work health and safety (WHS) requirements and anti-static precautions
• follow required practices or contingency plan if hardware replacement is unsuccessful
• recognising cable and connector types used for DPU integration
• FTTC Fibre skills relevant to swapping out a DPU
• restore site to required condition
• comply with all job requirements and work health and safety (WHS) regulations, standards and work practices
• confirm calibration within appropriate dates of instruments
• operate the following equipment:
• hand-held optical power meter
• hand-held optical source
• handheld optical fibre identifier (OFI-FTTx)
• active optical network termination (ONT) detector
• optical loss test set (OLTS)
• passive optical network (PON) meter
• perform the following optical measurements:
• detect the presence of an active ONT
• determine absolute optical power (in dBm)
• determine insertion loss (in dB)
• determine relative optical power level (in dB).

Note:

ICTWHS204 Follow Work Health and Safety is a prerequisite unit of ICTBWN307 Use optical measuring instruments

ICTBWN307 Use optical measuring instruments is a prerequisite unit of ICTBWN308 Work safely on live optical fibre installations

The sequence of these units will not be altered

To increase your skill development, Milcom has the following combined package that allows participants to complete the following specialisations, for a special discount price.

• Combined Fibre Hygiene (Skill 9) & Fibre Splicing (Skill 13)
• Combined Fibre Hygiene (Skill 9) & Fibre Testing (Skill 12) & Fibre Splicing (Skill 13)

Career Outcomes

This qualification may lead to the following career opportunities.

• NBN Technician
• Fibre Optic Technician
• Fibre Testing Specialist

Entry Requirements

• Nil