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 difference between hazard and risk risk as a measure of uncertainty and the factors that affect risk requirements under hazard-specific OHS legislation and codes of practice characteristics, mode of action and units of measurement of major hazard types characteristics of sound and vibration, units of noise, sound pressure levels, noise dose and process of hearing loss different categories of chemicals such as dangerous goods, hazardous substances, poisons, carcinogens etc types of hazardous dusts and fibres, hazardous environments and the possible explosion and ill health outcomes from exposure to dusts, particulates etc the effect of electricity on the body and the difference in action of fuses/circuit breakers and resident current devices difference between ionising and non-ionising radiation and the principles of decay, the effect of radiation on the body physiology relevant to understanding mode of action of physical, biological and chemical agents on the body and how they produce harm physiology related to temperature control of the human body, hazards of working in hot environments, and appropriate controls direct and indirect influences that impact on OHS and the environment in the design of product/s hierarchy of control and considerations for choosing between different control measures, such as possible inadequacies of particular control measures standard industry controls for a range of hazards the role of control programs for microbiological hazards such as vaccination, local ventilation, decontamination requirements for individual fitting, use, maintenance and storage of a range of PPE items requirements for selection and limitations of use of a range of PPE items 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 types of measurement and monitoring equipment, including intrinsically safe equipment, calibration requirements and principles of how the equipment takes the measurement and limitations in use requirements for control of work permits/written authorities in workplace monitoring activities mathematical knowledge of units of measurement, logarithmic scales, decimals and order of magnitude relevant to making and interpreting measurements exposure standards, their limitations and their practical use sampling methodologies, application and related statistical measures principles and practices of a systematic approach to 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 e.g. labour market changes structure and organisation of workforce e.g. 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 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 key personnel, including identifying 'change agents', within workplace management structure 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 |