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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Issue tasking for environmental health teams
   • Review and clarify as required in consultation with relevant personnel, environmental health support plan to fully ascertain the support required to be delivered
   • Brief relevant personnel on recommendations for support requirements in the health support plan
   • Determine tasking schedule considering the best use of environmental health assets, time and availability of dependent organisations
   • Determine key performance indicators through consultation with relevant personnel and team leaders
   • Allocate resources within tasking schedule to ensure teams are equipped to achieve objectives
   • Task team leaders in accordance with health support plan and operational requirements
2. Supervise environmental health team operations
   • Liaise with dependent organisations to set expectations about service being provided and to establish a common understanding of team performance and interaction
   • Identify factors affecting delivery of environmental health support through consultation with team leaders and organisations receiving support
   • Identify and implement measures to improve delivery of environmental health support across all teams
   • Provide technical guidance to team leaders to ensure correct performance of environmental health measures
   • Monitor utilisation of assets and adjust tasking schedule to ensure efficient use of all resources
   • Maintain work records to allow reference and tracking of workflow to dependent organisations
   • Compile and submit reports and returns in accordance with operational procedure
   • Communicate technical environmental health advice to relevant personnel
3. Monitor effectiveness of environmental health support
   • Liaise with team leaders and dependent organisations to gauge acceptance, reception and benefits of environmental health support
   • Review information sources on environmental health performance
   • Monitor changes in environment to continually adapt tasking schedule to current situation
   • Optimise team composition, tasking schedule and asset allocation to ensure health support effectiveness

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 two separate occasions and include: applying relevant legislation, and operational policies and procedures coaching and mentoring to provide support to personnel communicating and consulting with relevant stakeholders confirming tasks are completed coordinating tasking of at least two teams, of no less than three personnel in each team developing a tasking schedule utilising environmental health assets ensuring efficient use of resources maintaining administrative procedures managing factors affecting delivery issues and problems mentoring team leaders to achieve team tasking and objectives prioritising tasking.

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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: food safety standards including: food storage and distribution standards hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) approach to food control legal rights and responsibilities methods of establishing field hygiene and waste facilities principles and techniques associated with: establishing key performance indicators leading people making decisions preparing tasking schedules and plans team leadership management time management strategies to set priorities process of disease including the causes of disease transmission relevant administrative procedures relevant legislation, and organisational policies and procedures risk management principles role and capabilities of other health care providers including: relevant environmental health personnel scheduling resources tasking must include one or more of the following: applying the permethrin protection system assisting in ongoing health threat assessment and health surveillance collecting water samples for laboratory analysis contributing to epidemiologic quick assessment of disease contributing to organisational compliance with work health and safety (WHS) and industrial hygiene policy/procedure coordinating field waste management implementing strategies to control transmission of disease inspecting and monitoring water distribution for safe water handling practices monitoring food hygiene and preventing transmission of disease via ingested sources operating pesticide dispersal equipment performing a water quality survey of an established water distribution point performing chlorine dosing of water at the point of supply.

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