Elements and Performance Criteria
- Clarify the scope of operations
- Identify and review the relevant range of operations and the sphere of business arrangements of the organisation
- Conduct an analysis of the operations and business arrangements of the organisation and identify the functions, products and services that may be subject to compliance requirements
- Develop and document work activity plans for determining relevant compliance requirements
- Obtain approval of plans from relevant organisational personnel
- Identify compliance requirements
- Conduct a search of information on internal and external compliance requirements using appropriate search resources, including relevant Australian and international standards
- Ensure the search of compliance requirements scans across all relevant jurisdictions of laws, regulations, and industry and organisational codes and standards and identify pertinent compliance requirements
- Progressively review information collected in terms of its relevance to the organisation’s operations, services and products
- Organise and store gathered information on relevant compliance requirements in an appropriate format for further analysis
- Interpret, analyse and prioritise identified compliance requirements
- Review and interpret collected information in terms of its relevance to the organisation’s functions, services and products
- Discuss and clarify with relevant internal or external personnel ambiguities, uncertainties and problems experienced in interpreting identified compliance information
- Identify, analyse and prioritise relevant compliance requirements in terms of critical implications for the organisation and risks and consequence of possible breaches
- Group pertinent compliance requirements into those that are critical and central to the organisation’s operations, those that are important in some circumstances but are not central to the organisation’s operations, and those that are pertinent but are incidental to the organisation’s operations
- Document compliance requirements