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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Develop procedures to identify infestations and locations
   • Analyse and interpret pest legislation
   • Develop procedures to identify land ownership, and responsibilities of all parties, in accordance with legislation
   • Develop procedures to contact landowners, and notify them of infestation and control requirements, consistent with organisational and regulatory guidelines
   • Confirm that record-keeping documents meet regulatory guidelines
   • Develop and implement procedures for serving notices
   • Develop and implement guidelines on collecting evidence and reporting findings
   • Establish organisational policy to provide assistance and advice to landholders in implementing pest management plans
2. Administer the implementation of legislation
   • Interpret, analyse and evaluate existing policy and provide recommendations
   • Determine need for legal action
   • Explain, to relevant workers, the policies dealing with right of entry and ensure that workers can adequately communicate these policies to landowners
   • Confirm that monitoring program identifies infestations that contravene existing legislation
   • Issue and serve penalty notices when required
   • Provide pest management advice to landholders
   • Collate evidence and findings for presentation in court or to legal representatives
   • Prepare ministerial briefs

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 demonstrate that they can:

develop procedures to identify infestations in accordance with relevant legislation

interact with landholders to explain the ramifications of legislation

provide pest management advice to landholders which is consistent with organisational guidelines and legislative requirements

explain policies detailing right of entry to relevant workers

if required, serve penalty notices

collate evidence and findings for presentation in a court or to legal representatives

write ministerial briefs and responses to correspondence

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation and regulation relevant to pest management

relevant legislation regarding identification, destruction, movement, and propagation of declared species

legislation relating to gathering and presenting evidence

appropriate record-keeping systems

environmental protection processes

land management and production principles

policy and procedure development techniques

how to present evidence for court proceedings

principles that underpin a strategic approach to managing pests

pest control treatments relating to pests dealt with under legislation

monitoring points in the pest management plan and evidence of infestations

potential diseases and toxicity

relevant local, regional, State/Territory and national pest management strategies

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