Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop a plant health and management program
- Identify plant health issues from published data, historical records and industry consultation
- Define management issues relative to desired quality, quantity and productivity requirements of marketing and production plans
- Develop a program which defines enterprise guidelines and specific responsibilities of operational elements to achieve required outcomes
- Establish systems to monitor business goals
- Seek professional assistance where appropriate
- Assess information to determine potential key information for input to planning decisions
- Consider and document the environmental implications of chemical use, alternative methods and non-chemical preventative methods
- Determine plant health strategies
- Analyse gathered information for suitable approaches to plant health management
- Consider strategies in the light of their impacts
- Determine strategies for plant health management to integrate the most suitable methods with the proposed plants and the existing soil types
- Establish environmental controls and include in the plan
- Identify workplace health and safety hazards, assess risks and incorporate suitable controls into the plan
- Provide input to other planning processes
- Use details regarding plant health management strategies as input to other organisational planning processes
- Collect and use information regarding other planning processes to inform the plant health management planning process
- Communicate information about the range of planning processes verbally or in writing according to requirements and circumstances and the people involved
- Determine scheduling and key responsibilities
- Determine scheduling for plant health management, taking into consideration the range of seasonal, geographic, and resourcing factors
- Determine key responsibilities for specific implementation processes
- Determine record keeping requirements and put procedures in place to ensure compliance with the range of applicable regulations
- Document the strategic plan, including scheduling and key responsibilities
- Confirm the plan includes the type, format, frequency and detail of any reporting required by both managers and operators
- Monitor and adjust plant health management strategies
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the plant health management strategies at key points and make adjustments as necessary
- Identify and monitor environmental impacts and workplace health and safety hazards relating to plant health management and assess and manage risks throughout the implementation process
- Make modifications to the strategy as and when necessary for environmental, workplace health and safety, resourcing, or effectiveness reasons
- Evaluate plant health management strategies and record result
- Analyse data, observations and documentation from the implementation of the plant health management program against the plan, based on organisation guidelines
- Prepare recommendations for future strategies based on the analysis of the data
- Prepare a report that documents the implementation of the strategies