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Required Skills: |
Access and enter internal and external information on work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) |
Access relevant SMS information and data |
Advise on and negotiate development of additional safety plans and monitor designated actions |
Attend to detail when making observations and recording outcomes |
Make observations of workplace tasks and interactions between people, their activities, equipment, environment and systems |
Manage own tasks within a timeframe |
Relate effectively to personnel at all levels of the organisation, safety specialists and emergency services personnel as required |
Review and analyse relevant workplace information and data |
Use language appropriate to work group and task |
Work independently and unsupervised |
Write complex reports, procedures and plans |
Required Knowledge: |
Benefits, limitations and use of a range of communication strategies and tools appropriate to workplace |
Characteristics, mode of action and units of measurement of major hazard types |
Concept of common law duty of care |
Development of tools such as positive performance indicators (PPIs) in assessing safety management performance |
Difference between: common law and statutory law hazard and risk |
Ethics related to professional practice |
Formal and informal communication and consultation processes |
Hierarchy of control and considerations for choosing between different control measures, such as possible inadequacies of particular control measures |
How workforce characteristics and composition impacts on risk and a systematic approach to managing safety for example: communication skills cultural background/workplace diversity gender structure and organisation of workforce e.g. part-time, casual and contract workers, shift rosters, geographical location language, literacy and numeracy workers with specific needs |
How vessel characteristics and certificate of operation may impact on SMS such as: commercial activity geographical location maintenance requirements for vessel operating systems and work equipment operational limits passengers size of vessel/ type of vessel |
Internal and external sources of SMS information and data |
Language, literacy and cultural profile of vessel employees |
Limitations of generic hazard and risk checklists and risk ranking processes |
Maritime legislative requirements for safety management plans and compliance |
Methods for: collecting reliable information and data, commonly encountered problems in collection, and strategies for overcoming such problems providing evidence of compliance with maritime and WHS/OHS legislation |
Nature and use of information and data that provides valid and reliable results on safety management performance processes (including PPIs) and limitations of other types of measures |
Nature of maritime and typical vessel work requirements and processes (including work flow, planning and control) and hazards relevant to particular workplace |
Organisational culture as it impacts on safety, risk management and change |
Other functional areas that impact on safety management plans, systems and processes |
Principles and practices of a systematic approach to managing safety |
Principles of: human behaviour and response to interactions with human, physical and task environment to identify psychosocial hazards incident causation and injury processes |
Professional liability in relation to providing advice |
Range of risk analysis/assessment techniques and tools, and application and limitations of these techniques and tools, and auditing methods and techniques |
Requirements for : recordkeeping that addresses WHS/OHS, risk management, privacy and other relevant legislation reporting under WHS/OHS and other relevant legislation including notifying and reporting incidents |
Requirements of WHS/OHS and standards related to systematically managing safety |
Requirements under hazard-specific WHS/OHS legislation and codes of practice |
Risk as a measure of uncertainty and factors that affect risk |
Roles and responsibilities under WHS/OHS legislation of employees including supervisors, contractors and other external WHS/OHS inspectors and advisors |
Sampling methodologies, application and related statistical measures |
Standard maritime industry controls for a range of hazards |
Standards related to SMS information and data, statistics and records management including requirements for information and data under elements of systematically managing safety |
State/territory and commonwealth WHS/OHS legislation, regulations, codes of practice, associated standards and guidance material, including prescriptive and performance approaches, and links to other relevant legislation such as industrial relations, equal employment opportunity, workers compensation, rehabilitation |
Structure and forms of legislation including regulations, codes of practice, associated standards and guidance material |
Types of hazard identification tools |
WHS/OHS requirements and safe work practices |