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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Plan control procedures across the declared area
   • Conduct planning and consultation with stakeholders and field personnel
   • Conduct planning in line with relevant standards, protocols and guidelines, and according to instructions from operations director
   • Identify, obtain, schedule, prioritise and deploy required resources
   • Identify work health and safety requirements and hazards associated with implementing control procedures and ensure appropriate action is taken to minimise risks to self and others
   • Identify criteria for implementing control procedures which satisfy relevant standards and protocols with minimal livestock or crop destruction and property damage
   • Prepare contingency plans for effective control of emergency disease or plant pest
2. Manage the implementation of control procedures
   • Coordinate control procedures to achieve effective emergency disease or plant pest control outcomes
   • Maintain ongoing consultation and communication links with all stakeholders, field staff, property owners or managers and others in control centre
   • Implement control procedures and services supplied under contract
   • Prepare and submit written and verbal reports as required
3. Monitor and review the effectiveness of control procedures
   • Monitor personnel to ensure that they are achieving specified objectives
   • Monitor supply of resources for appropriateness and availability
   • Monitor implementation of control procedures to ensure cost-effective compliance with relevant standards and protocols
   • Review priorities for emergency disease or plant pest control operations, and confirm or revise as appropriate
4. Implement review findings
   • Revise control activities as required
   • Advise relevant stakeholders and personnel of revisions to control activities promptly for implementation

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must be assessed on their ability to integrate and apply the performance requirements of this unit in a workplace setting. Performance must be demonstrated consistently over time and in a suitable range of contexts.

The candidate must provide evidence that they can:

apply standards, guidelines, protocols and legislation in:

planning control procedures

resourcing the control plan

addressing work health and safety requirements

determining criteria for implementing control procedures

contracting services

monitoring implementation of control procedures for cost effectiveness

monitoring, reviewing control operations and revising priorities as part of managing active emergency disease or plant pest sites

plan and resource control procedures, and contingency plans

engage with stakeholders and field personnel in planning process

engage with stakeholders, field staff, property owners/managers and others in control centre throughout the control period

manage and monitor implementation of control procedures

monitor personnel against specified objectives

monitor supply of resources

review priorities and revise as appropriate after consultation

review control activities as required and communicate to stakeholders and personnel.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

AUSVETPLAN or PLANTPLAN, and relevant standards, guidelines and protocols, and Nationally Agreed Standard Operating Procedures (NASOP)

incident control management procedures

the requirements of relevant commonwealth, state and territory legislation

relevant public sector policies, practices and constraints in relation to emergency disease or plant pest management

techniques for monitoring and reviewing control procedures, and resource expenditure

advanced communication principles to consult and communicate with a range of stakeholders and the control centre

project management principles.

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