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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Manage error
  2. Maximise personal performance
  3. Assertive communication is used effectively
  4. Personal workload is regulated by prioritising work tasks
  5. Human machine interface (HMI) is optimised to enhance human performance
  6. Decisions taken to manage overall performance are employed
  7. Errors are recognised and rectified
  8. Undesired states, resulting from errors, are recovered
  9. Personal responsibility for own errors is acknowledged
  10. Participate as a team member
  11. Duty of care towards others is applied
  12. Situational leadership and followership skills are applied to increase team output

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria on at least one occasion and include:

acknowledging, inquiring and observing when managing human performance

adhering to standard operating procedures

allocating attention according to priorities

applying reasoning and decision making

communicating effectively with others

listening actively

managing operating environment in accordance with standard operating procedures

reporting and rectifying identified problems promptly

requesting assistance from others as required

responding to stressful situations with a considered and measured approach

taking actions to mitigate effects of external threats to personal performance

working systematically with required attention to detail.


Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of:

decision making techniques

duty of care principles and application

fatigue management systems and the effects of shift work

human machine interface (HMI) setup to enhance performance

incident and accident causation models

just culture policy and principles, including individual and organisational accountabilities surrounding the reporting and investigation of air traffic service attributable safety occurrences

medical requirements for an air traffic controller licence, including responsibilities for fitness for duty

physiological factors affecting human performance

principles and practices for leadership and followership within work teams

psychological factors affecting human performance

recency and currency requirements

regulatory requirements covering length of shift and break requirements

relevant legislation and workplace procedures

relevant work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) procedures and regulations

threat and error management.