Required knowledge: Look for evidence that confirms knowledge and understanding of: roles and responsibilities under OHS legislation of employees including supervisors, contractors, OHS inspectors etc principles of duty of care including concepts of causation, foreseeability, preventability legislative requirements for OHS information and data, and consultation roles and responsibilities in relation to communication and consultation for OHS committees, OHS representatives, line management, employees and inspectors state/territory/Commonwealth OHS legislation (Acts, 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 etc structure and forms of legislation including regulations, codes of practice, associated standards and guidance material difference between hazard and risk risk as a measure of uncertainty and the factors that affect risk principles of incident causation and injury processes principles of human behaviour and response to interactions with human, physical and task environment to identify psychosocial hazards knowledge of a range of risk analysis/assessment techniques and tools and the application and limitations of those techniques and tools standard industry controls for a range of hazards types of hazard identification tools including JSA limitations of generic hazard and risk checklists and risk ranking processes pertinent sections of relevant Australian and other standards such as AS/NZS 4360: Risk management, National Standard for the Storage and Handling requirements for control of work permits/written authorities in workplace monitoring activities principles and practices of a systematic approach to managing OHS range of risk analysis/assessment techniques and tools and their application and limitations requirements of OHS and standards related to systematically managing OHS other function areas that impact on the management of OHS internal and external sources of OHS information and data how the characteristics and composition of the workforce impact on risk and the systematic approach to managing OHS eg labour market changes structure and organisation of workforce eg part-time, casual and contract workers, shift rosters, geographical location language, literacy and numeracy communication skills cultural background/workplace diversity gender workers with special needs benefits, limitations and use of a range of communication strategies and tools appropriate to the workplace organisational behaviour and culture as it impacts on OHS and on change ethics related to professional practice organisational OHS policies and procedures nature of workplace processes (including work flow, planning and control) and hazards relevant to the particular workplace sources of occupational disease and their prevention knowledge of toxicology of hazardous materials and potential health effects in the workplace formal and informal communication and consultation processes and key personnel related to communication language, literacy and cultural profile of the work group organisational culture as it impacts on the workgroup |