8) Essential Knowledge and Associated Skills (EKAS): This describes the essential skills and knowledge and their level, required for this unit. Evidence shall show that knowledge has been acquired of preparing and appraising financial impact statements. All knowledge and skills detailed in this unit should be contextualised to current industry practices and technologies. KS01-TDS40A Prepare and appraise power systems financial impact statements Evidence shall show an understanding of the preparation and appraisal of power systems financial impact statements to an extent indicated by the following aspects: T1 Principles of safe design to an extent indicated by the following aspects: Commonwealth/State/Territory legislation, standards, codes, supply authority regulations and or enterprise requirements associated with safe design principles Particular reference to state and territory regulations regarding: working near energised conductors, electrical access, heights, confined space, testing procedures and licensing rules Application of safe design principles - safe design duty related information, safe design process related information and safe design evaluations T2 Methodology used in writing enterprise specific management reports to an extent indicated by the following aspects: Commonwealth, State/Territory and local government legislation, supply authority regulations Standards, codes, and or enterprise requirements applicable to the writing enterprise specific management reports Techniques in researching, collating and analysing information for the report - recording, filing, retrieving systems and storing and retrieving data from computer systems Relationship of management reports to enterprise policies and procedures - enterprise structure and resources, Workplace OHS and risk management enterprise data, financial and operational data Environmental enterprise policies and procedures Industrial relations policies and procedures Anti-discrimination policies and procedures: Techniques in writing enterprise specific management reports - methods used to disseminate information and facilitate enterprise requirements, document proformas and compliance and legislative requirements to produce effective reports in the appropriate format T3 Evidence shall show an understanding of financial impact statements encompassing: Techniques in budgeting and tracking project progress Preparation and analysis of budget figures Techniques in the co-ordination of contingencies and risks that have a budget effect Techniques in dealing with problems that have a budget effect Examples of forms of recording project status and costings Application of relevant computer software packages Methods of prepare proposals encompassing: prepare specifications, tender and evaluation and letting of tenders Techniques in estimating - contract documents, drawings, specifications, general conditions, special conditions Resources costs - hourly rates (labour, plant, material, subcontractors), direct and indirect costs, contingency costs, project margin, cost of money, budget, preliminary tender, labour costing, equipment costing, economic comparisons and contract variations Techniques in prepare and interpret proposals and tender documents Techniques in preparing tender documents Techniques in interpret tender documents Techniques in preparing cost estimates for a project from relevant data Techniques in preparing financial impact statements T4 Project management encompassing: Commonwealth, State and local government legislation, standards, codes, supply authority regulations and or enterprise requirements including relevant certification and licensing applicable to the duties and responsibilities for management a project Analyse functions of project management to determine achievement of project objectives Relationship of stakeholders to the project Techniques in development of project plan - project integration, scope, timelines, cost, quality, resources, communication/protocol requirements, risk/uncertainties and procurement and contacting Relationship between project processes, project life and project phases Planning and control procedures, resource management and risk management Techniques, methodologies and tools available to project managers Types of internal and external environmental factors that may affect the project |