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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Review legal and system requirements
   • Identify legal, safety and environmental protection requirements for managing biohazards.
   • Review traceability chain for biohazard documentation to ensure compliance with appropriate standards.
   • Evaluate organisational biohazard contingency management practices.
   • Identify communication protocols for inclusion in the contingency plan.
2. Prepare a contingency plan
   • Identify the range of potential biohazards present in organisational operations.
   • Estimate potential social, economic and environmental impacts of biohazard infestations.
   • Complete risk assessment for the potential of biohazard infestations.
   • Develop controls and action plans to limit the spread of infestation in that event; include in the contingency plan.
   • Review operational procedures to ensure adequate risk controls and contingency plan are in place.
   • Identify routine infestation treatments and action plans for inclusion in contingency plan.
   • Incorporate communication protocols in the contingency plan.
   • Document training and induction processes for workforce involved with the implementation of risk controls.
3. Ensure effectiveness of contingency plan
   • Organise support and resources to enable the ongoing functionality of the contingency plan.
   • Implement continuous improvement processes to ensure plan remains effective and gain approval for changes.
   • Monitor activities on an ongoing basis to identify potential biohazard incidents and implement changes to plan.

Performance Evidence

A person demonstrating competency in this unit must satisfy all of the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, and must be able to provide evidence that they can:

Develop a comprehensive written plan to manage the risk of biohazard incidents involving fungal, viral, bacterial, insect and vertebrate infestations.

Incorporate these inclusions in the plan:

risk assessment for the potential of biohazard infestations from operational activities

estimates of social, economic and environmental impacts of biohazard infestations

routine infestation treatments and action plans to avoid infestations

controls and action plans which would be used in the event of an infestation to limit the spread

training and induction processes to communicate responsibilities for implementing plans.

Organise required support and resources

Review plan and incorporate improvements

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Knowledge Evidence

A person competent in this unit must be able to demonstrate knowledge of:

Purpose and key content and of applicable commonwealth, state or territory legislation and regulation relevant to managing biohazards and controlling infestations.

Industry and organisational standards for managing the traceability chain of biohazard documentation.

Characteristics of a range of potential biohazards present in forest and wood products industry operations, including:

fungal hazards

viral hazards

bacterial hazards

insect hazards

vertebrate hazards.

Methods used to control biohazard infestations and limit the spread, including:

eradication

quarantine

fumigation

use of pesticides

use of biological controls

culling of infected plants.

Economic impacts of biohazard infestations and methods used to estimate monetary losses, including:

loss of forest values

loss of current markets

loss of potential markets

damage to trading status.

Key features of social and environmental impacts of biohazard infestations.

Purpose, format, content and use of biohazard contingency plans.

Methods used to train personnel on the content of biohazard contingency plans and their role in implementing it.

Organisational procedures for documenting and communicating plans.

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