Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan and organise observations
- Collect information and record
- Plants and animals and their presence are identified orally or from field guides to enterprise guidelines.
- Plants and animals and/or samples are collected as required under enterprise guidelines.
- Protection and quarantine requirements under legislation, protection agreements and enterprise procedures for species are observed.
- Observation activities minimise degradation and disturbance and comply with legislation and Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) requirements.
- Report data
- Information on observed plants and animals are recorded and organised according to enterprise guidelines.
- Information is communicated to supervisors according to enterprise guidelines.
- Records are compatible with enterprise recording and database arrangements.
- Occurrence of an organism is plotted and described using maps and grid references.