Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish relevant project management details.
- Project management roles, responsibilities and lines of communication are established.
- Required project outcomes are consulted, clarified and finalised with the client.
- Relevant project scheduling and sequencing information is established.
- Tasks in the design process are assigned to relevant personnel, and mechanisms to coordinate their input are established and communicated.
- Project file-sharing and communication systems and tools are determined.
- Workplace quality assurance checks to ensure accuracy and validity of design are determined and procedures to ensure that these are conducted are established.
- Stages where regulatory or other approval is required for the design are determined and procedures to ensure that these are obtained are established.
- Interpret fire systems design concepts, briefs or specifications.
- The nature and purpose of the fire systems design are determined.
- Project documentation is gathered and assessed for completeness and use in the design of effective special hazard fire systems.
- Structural characteristics of the equipment or facility are identified and analysed.
- Functions and occupancies of buildings or facilities are determined from initial project documentation.
- Clarification of specific building details is sought from the client or relevant contractors and consultants.
- The appropriate hazard classification for the building or facility is researched and confirmed.
- Complete the risk assessment of the project.
- Regulatory requirements and applicable standards for the special hazard fire system are determined.
- Insurance requirements impacting on applicable codes and standards for the special hazard fire system project are determined.
- A risk assessment is documented to identify or confirm the type or types of special hazard detection and suppression system that will be used.