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Scenario · Surveying and Spatial Services

Provide field support for a boundary re-establishment survey

You are a survey assistant on the field crew.

Intermediate3 to 4 hours7 tasks
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The situation

What has happened

The surveying team is re-establishing the boundaries and pegging lots 31 to 42 at the Brightwater Stage 3 subdivision in Coomera on 16 September under the direction of the registered surveyor, Anika Sorensen. The site is a live civil construction site with a haul road used by water trucks and excavators, and a near miss involving a survey assistant and a reversing truck was recorded last week. Before the day you must gather the title and plan information from the job file, check the total station and GNSS equipment, and on the day you will set up the instrument, record observations and reductions and place and reference the pegs. A spotter is required for any work within ten metres of the haul road.

Your brief. Prepare the survey information and equipment, complete the site induction and traffic controls, support the field survey by operating the instrument, recording observations and computing simple reductions, place and reference the pegs and record the job and any hazard correctly.
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Tasks

Deliverables

  • Field preparation sheet with reference marks and equipment check
  • Field book observations and computations
  • Peg reference record with photographs
  • Completed job board entry and any hazard report

Documents to use

Systems to use

Cleaning, Patrol and Survey Job Board

The daily board of scheduled field work across cleaning shifts, security patrols, concierge posts, open homes, inspections and survey jobs.

Incident, Hazard and Security Log

The group-wide log of injuries, near misses, hazards, security incidents, privacy breaches and patrol events across every office, property and client site.

For trainers and assessors

Units of competency

Current on training.gov.au for the Property Services Training Package as at 10 September 2026.

CPPSSI3015Collect basic surveying data
CPPSSI3016Provide field support services for surveying and spatial projects
CPPSSI3020Perform simple surveying and spatial computations
CPPSSI4030Operate surveying equipment
CPPSSI4040Collect spatial data using a total station

Qualifications

CPP30226Certificate III in Surveying and Spatial Information Services
CPP41721Certificate IV in Surveying and Spatial Information Services
Assessor notes

What to look for

Evidence guide

Check the equipment check is genuine and recorded, that the traffic controls reflect the near miss, that observations are recorded legibly with instrument heights and checks, that computations close within tolerance and that discrepancies with the plan are reported to the surveyor rather than resolved by the assistant. The job and any hazard must be recorded in the right systems.

The student's evidence summary lists every record they created or changed in the systems named above, their notes and the tasks they ticked. Verify it against the deliverables and your own assessment tool.