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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Conduct an environmental health analysis
   • Determine scope and context of environmental health support required in accordance with operational policy
   • Identify and review health intelligence sources
   • Conduct an environmental health threat risk assessment
   • Identify environmental health tasks to mitigate each threat in accordance with operational procedures
   • Determine environmental health strategies and action in accordance with scope and context of identified support
   • Compare strategies with responsiveness to potential obstacles and key health threats
   • Present a health analysis brief to relevant stakeholders for consultation and guidance in accordance with operational procedure
2. Develop environmental health plan
   • Identify environmental health stakeholders for specific tasking within the plan
   • Allocate environmental health assets in accordance with agreed environmental health strategies
   • Prioritise and sequence environmental health tasking in accordance with environmental health strategies
   • Apply principles of health support
   • Draft environmental health plan to support strategic adaptability to react effectively when environmental circumstances change unexpectedly
   • Present draft plan to relevant stakeholders and personnel for approval in accordance with operational procedures
   • Finalise environmental health plan that incorporates stakeholder feedback and recommendations, in accordance with plan scope and operational procedures

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 include: applying relevant legislation, and operational policies and procedures communicating effectively with all stakeholders enabling sustained environmental health support identifying key health threats, assessing risks and implementing control measures during environmental health planning interpreting information to support health planning making judgements that balance health support and operational imperatives managing basic projects managing schedule with competing interests minimising health threat to the organisation negotiating complex issues and ideas to arrive at a common understanding optimising the implementation of health support plans preparing complex verbal or written health assessments for communication to relevant stakeholders researching information to aid health support assessment solving problems.

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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 include knowledge of: health support logistics and planning processes health support resource capabilities health threat analysis injury risk assessment and management organisational structure, and lines of authority and communication within the organisation principles of health support including: enable control of health resources by technically qualified personnel best placed to employ them ensure conformity of health plan with higher operational plans ensure continuity of health care between levels of treatment and between different agencies involved in treatment ensure health support maintains its proximity to activity being supported ensure health support maintains mobility with activity of group being supported facilitate provision of initial wound surgery within three hours of being injured facilitate provision of resuscitation by a medical officer within an hour of being injured prevent injury and illness provide immediate first aid to an injured person maintain flexibility to adapt health plan to changing circumstances of Australian Defence Force (ADF) operations relevant legislation, and organisational policies and procedures relevant organisational standing and routine orders structure and function of ADF health services theory of health support vectors of disease.

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