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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for a safety and suitability for service assessment of explosives
   • Receive and confirm assessment requirements and the agreed customer requirements
2. Identify the design precedents and safety principles of the explosives
3. Identify and confirm life cycle events for the explosives
4. Identify and define the predicted service environment for the explosives
5. Conduct explosive hazard assessment
   • Identify hazards associated with the explosives
6. Evaluate hazards and determine the risk index for the explosives
7. Identify system hazards for the explosives
8. Identify and record actions to eliminate or control the hazards for stakeholder consideration
9. Conduct explosive design assessment
   • Identify explosive chemistry
10. Identify and assess explosive train components
11. Identify and assess the environmental conditions for the explosives
12. Evaluate the usage and disposal requirements of the explosives
13. Determine the requirement of explosive trials or tests
    • Determine the requirement for conduct of trials and/or evaluation of explosives
14. Provide written instructions for trials and/or evaluation to the appropriate testing authority
15. Conduct analysis of trials and/or evaluation outcomes
16. Incorporate trial and/or evaluation outcomes in relevant reports and other documentation
17. Report and provide guidance on explosive safety and suitability for service
    • Record and report outcomes to all relevant stakeholders
18. Finalise relevant safety and suitability for service certification and documentation

Range Statement

Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment. Non-essential conditions may be found in the Companion Volume Implementation Guide.

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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 includes:

accessing and preparing information electronically or in hard copy applying risk management techniques communicating with stakeholders using a range of communication styles to suit different audiences and purposes scheduling multiple agencies writing recommendations and preparing plans requiring precision of expression conducting hazard and design assessments determining the requirements for trials or testing defining and documenting the Manufacture to Disposal Sequence (MTDS) providing technical advice to authorities

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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 includes:

Operational knowledge of: integrated logistics support requirements for explosives In-depth knowledge of: management tools suited to implementing safety and suitability for service evaluation processes principles relating to the implementation of safety and suitability for service evaluation processes explosive chemistry/physics/materials/design principles

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