Safety standards may include relevant sections of Occupational Health and Safety legislation, enterprise safety rules, relevant state and federal legislation, national standards for plant, standard operating procedures, local by-laws, environmental protection. Appropriate personnel to consult, give or receive direction may include power plant operator/system controllers or equivalent, technical and engineering officers or equivalent, maintenance staff, other authorities, general public. Information and documentation sources may include verbal or written communications, enterprise safety rules and operating instruction documentation, manufacturers' operating and maintenance manuals, log books, dedicated computer equipment, protection and alarm manuals. Communications may be by means of telephone, two way radio, dedicated computer equipment, logs. Equipment may include: lakes, dams, intakes/regulating gates spillways, intake gates, canals/flumes, tunnels, penstocks, hill top valves (HTV), tail race, riparian water, dewatering outlets, surge towers/shafts/ponds, pumping stations, discharge valves, pumping systems, on and off road vehicles. System limitations may include weather conditions, environmental requirements, minimum operating levels, statutory requirement, community service obligations. Functional tests may be carried out on mechanical/electrical and static devices. Flood control procedures may include implementation of local area flood procedures, operation of dewatering outlets. Technical and operational indicators may include remote or local indicators and recorders, computers and alarms (visible and/or audible). Work completion details may include enterprise recording procedures (electronic or hard copy), environmental reports, personnel training reports. Generic terms are used throughout this Training Package for vocational standard shall be regarded as part of the Range Statement in which competency is demonstrated. The definition of these and other terms are given in Volume 2, Part 1. |