Elements and Performance Criteria
- Evaluate requirements of ethical conduct.
- Organisational or industry codes of practice are accessed, professional responsibility to uphold community and public interest is reviewed, and implications for work practice are considered.
- Internal processes for ensuring that conflicts of interest are identified, reported and avoided are evaluated and recorded.
- Own understanding of appropriate and ethical business dealings is reviewed.
- Own professional capacity and competency to perform work to be undertaken are reviewed.
- Strategies are planned and put in place to ensure professional competency is maintained and upgraded to meet required professional work standards.
- Evaluate operational risks to the organisation.
- Scope and range of risks that may threaten the standing and operation of the organisation are identified.
- Organisational business planning tools and work procedures are evaluated to identify points of potential risks.
- Regulatory and licensing requirements underpinning building surveying conduct are accessed and applied to the review of organisational practices and policies.
- Lead organisational performance in managing risk and ethical practice.
- Organisational practices and policies for ensuring quality control of work and protection of client rights are reviewed and evaluated.
- Review of staff education and training levels relevant to the work undertaken is conducted.
- Organisational practices and policies are tested to ensure they support ethical conduct.
- Organisational practices and policies that evaluate, monitor and report on risks are tested and reviewed.
- Conduct project-based risk assessment.
- Range and nature of the services required by the client are determined and details of the service levels to be provided are specified in order to scope exposure to risk.
- Capacity of internal and external personnel to meet organisational and regulatory standards is assessed.
- Regulatory requirements and standards applicable to the work are determined and implementation is monitored.
- Insurance requirements are determined and steps taken to ensure appropriate cover is in place.
- Risk assessment is documented to identify potential risks and confirm the risk mitigation and management strategies that will be used.