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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Facilitate workplace assessment
   • Use organisational procedures and best practice principles relating to workplace assessment
   • Identify and rationalise workplace assessment objectives in accordance with organisational guidelines and feedback from stakeholders
   • Identify workplace duties and requirements within workplace in consultation with relevant stakeholders to make recommendations
   • Review rehabilitation and injured person’s status reports to determine injured person’s capacity to perform tasks
   • Use organisational and legislative guidelines to review safe work practices
   • Incorporate recommendation resulting from workplace assessment into workplace assessment reports
   • Refer recommendations identified in workplace assessment to specialist stakeholders for further clarification and advice
   • Incorporate recommendations from specialist stakeholders into workplace implementation and recommendation reports
2. Facilitate job analysis
   • Secure technical and clinical expertise to undertake job analysis with employer and workplace
   • Incorporate knowledge and application of safe work practices into job analysis
   • Provide feedback to employer and organisation on appropriateness of work site
3. Recommend workplace modifications
   • Identify and secure resources required to make modifications to workplace environments
   • Develop strategies in consultation with relevant stakeholders to identify tasks which will assist injured person to return to work, short term and long term
   • Use organisational guidelines and best practice methods to determine costing and funding sources for workplace modification requirements
   • Provide training and educational services on use of adaptive equipment and workplace modifications
4. Facilitate job redesign
   • Determine circumstances in which job redesign may be used
   • Consult with stakeholders and employers to determine willingness and ability to accommodate injured person’s limitations and abilities in accordance with organisational guidelines
   • Obtain stakeholder feedback on the injured person’s abilities and ability to perform required job
   • Obtain stakeholder feedback on job tasks and elements which are outside injured person’s capabilities
   • Consider safe work practices in job redesign and make recommendations in accordance with organisational guidelines and legislative requirements

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

conduct workplace assessments with relevant stakeholder groups

facilitate job analysis as part of the workplace assessment and identify and recommend workplace modifications as a result of stakeholder feedback

recommend job design as a result of stakeholder feedback, using knowledge of relevant stakeholder groups available to conduct workplace assessments

apply knowledge of relevant organisational policy and procedures, and legislative requirements.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:

describe the key features of legislative requirements as they relate to the development, implementation and monitoring of workplace assessment results and recommendations

identify the key features of and discuss organisational requirements and guidelines as they relate to the development, implementation and monitoring of workplace assessments and recommendations

identify the roles and functions of stakeholder groups available to support the evaluation process required to conduct injured persons’ workplace assessments.

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