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.
The client may include: | DEEWR Industry Skills Councils (ISCs) enterprise or business government department organisation, including a training and/or assessment organisation professional association or body. |
Systems and processes may include: | project management requirements, including project plan establishment of reference group/steering committee determining key stakeholders using relevant software and computer equipment records and financial systems. |
Initial research may include: | preliminary discussions/consultations with key stakeholders, such as: personnel in the industry/organisation technical experts or specialists in the field representative organisations literature and/or internet research survey/interviews. |
Relevant information may include: | existing competency standards, including other standards that may cross over scope/coverage outcomes of organisational training needs analyses industry or other research reports identifying trends, new developments, technological changes, organisational changes and global developments competency standards from other countries. |
Research methods may include: | interviews, with groups and individuals reviewing documentation, e.g. position descriptions, procedures observation consulting with internal and external stakeholders. |
Relevant people may include: | client/client representatives steering committee/reference group manager. |
Guidelines may include: | current DEEWR guidelines guidelines produced by other bodies responsible for the competency specifications such as professional bodies state/territory accreditation authority guidelines guidelines from other countries internal organisational guidelines. |
Consistent and accessible may include: | using the language of the industry reflecting realistic work outcomes, practice, skills and knowledge requirements reflecting the job role, environment and context reflecting the dimensions of competency. |
Consultation process may include: | defining the audience for the consultation, e.g. stakeholders, clients establishing the methods for validation, e.g. workshops, presentations, meetings, email, internet a defined time frame for feedback a defined scope of the consultation, e.g. organisational, cross-industry or profession, local, state, national. |
Relevant stakeholders may include: | the client individuals in the work area, industry or profession for whom the unit of competency was written individuals connected to the work area, industry or profession, e.g. supervisors industry or profession experts and/or peak bodies other developers of competency standards or Training Packages, trainers, facilitators and/or assessors ISCs reference groups or steering committees NOHSC. |