The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. |
| Application of this unit may relate to: scheduled or unscheduled maintenance performed on flight lines, in hangars and in workshops individual or team-related activities |
This competency is to be exhibited in accordance with all relevant OHS legislation, particularly: | state/territory/Commonwealth OHS Acts, regulations and codes of practice, including regulations and organisational codes of practice relating to hazards present in the workplace general duty of care under OHS legislation and common law; requirements for the maintenance and confidentiality of occupational injury and disease requirements for provision of OHS information and training provisions relating to health and safety representatives and/or OHS committees provisions relating to OHS issue resolution Civil Aviation Safety Regulations (CASRs), Manuals of Standards and associated Acceptable Means of Compliance and Guidance Material |
Establish and maintain the framework for OHS may include: | policy development and updating determining the ways in which OHS functions will be managed. This may include distinct OHS management activities, or inclusion of OHS functions within a range of management functions and operations, such as maintenance of plant and equipment; purchasing of materials and equipment designing operations, work flow and materials handling; planning or implementing alterations to site, plant, operations or work systems; mechanisms for review and allocation of human, technical and financial resources needed to manage OHS, including defining and allocating OHS responsibilities for all relevant positions mechanisms for keeping up to date with relevant information and updating the management arrangements for OHS, for example, information on health effects of hazards, technical developments in risk control and environmental monitoring and changes to legislation mechanisms to assess and update OHS arrangements relevant to legislative requirements; a system for communicating OHS information to employees, supervisors and managers within the enterprise |
Appropriate consultative processes for management of OHS may cover: | OHS committees and other committees, for example, consultative, planning and purchasing health and safety representatives; employee and supervisor involvement in OHS management activities, for example, OHS inspections, audits, environmental monitoring, risk assessment and risk control procedures for reporting hazards, risks and OHS issues by managers and employees inclusion of OHS in consultative or other meetings and processes |
Establish and maintain procedures for identifying hazards may include developing and updating procedures for: | workplace inspections, including plant and equipment; audits maintaining and analysing OHS records, including environmental monitoring and health surveillance reports maintenance of plant and equipment reviews of materials and equipment purchases, including manufacturers and suppliers information employee reporting of OHS issues |
Establish and maintain procedures for assessing risks may include developing and updating procedures for: | determining the likelihood and severity of adverse consequences form hazards OHS audits; workplace inspections; maintenance of plant and equipment; purchasing of materials and equipment planning or implementing alterations to site, operations or work systems analysis of relevant records and reports, for example, injuries and incidents, hazardous substances inventories/registers, audit and environmental monitoring reports and OHS committee records |
Establish and maintain procedures for controlling risks may include developing and updating procedures for: | assessing the OHS consequences of materials, plant or equipment prior to purchase obtaining expert advice; appropriate application of measures according to the hierarchy of control, namely: elimination of the risk engineering controls administrative controls personal protective equipment designing safe operations and systems of work; inclusion of new OHS information into procedures checking enterprise compliance with regulatory requirements |
Establish and maintain organisational procedures for hazardous events may include developing and updating procedures for: | making inventories of, and inspecting, high risk operations inspecting systems and operations associated with potentially hazardous events, for example, emergency communications, links to emergency services, fire fighting, chemical spill containment, bomb alerts and first aid services |
Establish and maintain an OHS training program may include: | arrangements for ongoing assessment of training needs, for example, relating to supervisors and managers specific hazards; specific tasks or equipment emergencies and evacuations training required under OHS legislation allocation of resources for OHS training, including acquisition of training resources, development of staff training skills and purchase of training services induction training; training for new operations, materials or equipment |
Establish and maintain a system for keeping OHS records may cover: | identifying records required under OHS legislation, for example, worker's compensation and rehabilitation records hazardous substances registers; material safety data sheets (MSDS) major accident/injury notifications certificates or licences manufacturers and suppliers OHS information OHS audits and inspection reports maintenance and testing reports workplace environmental monitoring and health surveillance records records of instruction and training first aid/medical post records |
Effectiveness of the OHS system and related policies, procedures and programs is assessed through: | reviewing the effectiveness of the OHS management system regular review of operating procedures regular analysis of OHS records audits against OHS legislative requirements |