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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Provide information to the work group about WHS and the organisation’s WHS policies, procedures and programs
  2. Implement and monitor participative arrangements for the management of WHS
  3. Implement and monitor the organisation’s procedures for identifying hazards and assessing risks
  4. Implement and monitor the organisation’s procedures for dealing with risk
  5. Implement the organisation’s procedures for dealing with hazardous events
  6. Implement and monitor the organisation’s procedures for providing WHS training
  7. Implement and monitor the organisation’s procedures for maintaining WHS records
  8. Provide information to the work group about WHS and the organisation’s WHS policies, procedures and programs
  9. Implement and monitor the organisation’s procedures for identifying hazards and assessing risks
  10. Implement and monitor the organisation’s procedures for dealing with risk
  11. Implement the organisation’s procedures for dealing with hazardous events
  12. Implement and monitor the organisation’s procedures for providing WHS training
  13. Implement and monitor the organisation’s procedures for maintaining WHS records

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.

WHS legislation and codes of practice include:

State/Territory/Commonwealth WHS Acts, regulations and codes of practice, including general duty of care under WHS legislation and common law

Relevant defence instructions

Civil Aviation Safety Regulations (CASRs)

Requirements for the maintenance and confidentiality of records of occupational injury and disease

Provisions relating to health and safety representatives and/or WHS committees

Provisions relating to WHS issue resolution

The organisation’s WHS policies, procedures and programs are included in:

Safety manuals

Maintenance organisation manual

Standing instructions

Procedures manuals

Work instructions

Information is provided:

For the induction of new maintenance personnel

About the nature of work, tasks and procedures

To assist in work tasks

As part of providing direct supervision

To communicate organisational safety requirements and procedures

For consultation with health and safety representatives and WHS committees

Consultation over WHS issues includes:

Formal and informal meetings which include WHS

WHS committees

Other committees, such as consultative, planning and purchasing

Health and safety representatives

Suggestions, requests, reports and concerns put forward by employees to management

Assessment of existing and potential hazards and risk includes:

Audits

Workplace inspections

Housekeeping

Checking work area and/or equipment before and during work

Job and work system assessment

Reviews of WHS records, including registers of hazardous substances, dangerous goods, and so on

Maintenance of plant and equipment

Provision of supplies and equipment, e.g. review of material safety data sheets (MSDS) and manufacturer/supplier information

Identifying employee concerns

Risk control procedures include:

Measures to remove the cause of a risk at its source

Application of the hierarchy of control:

elimination of risk

engineering controls

administrative controls

personal protective equipment (PPE)

Consultation with maintenance personnel and their representatives

Procedures for dealing with hazardous events include:

Evacuation

Chemical containment

First aid

Accident/incident reporting and investigation

Hazardous events include:

Accidents

Fires and explosions

Emergencies, e.g. fuel or chemical spills

Bomb scares

Violent incidents

WHS training includes:

Induction training

Specific hazard training

Specific task or equipment training

Emergency and evacuation training

Training as part of broader programs, such as equipment operation

WHS records include:

WHS audit and inspection reports

Health surveillance and workplace environmental monitoring reports

Records of instruction and training

Manufacturers and suppliers information, including MSDS and dangerous goods storage lists

Hazardous substances registers

Maintenance and testing reports

Workers compensation and rehabilitation records

First aid/medical post records

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria under the specified conditions of assessment on at least one occasion.

Evidence must be provided that the candidate can apply applicable WHS Acts, regulations and codes to:

analyse the entire work environment in the area of responsibility in order to identify hazards, assess risks and judge when intervention to control risks is necessary

analyse relevant workplace data, such as incident or environmental monitoring data, to identify hazards, assess risks and evaluate the effectiveness of risk control measures

assess the resources needed to apply different risk control measures and make recommendations to management on that basis.

The demonstrated ability to apply the elements and performance criteria of this unit of competency in conjunction with other units relating to the supervision of aviation maintenance activities is critical.

Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of:

the provisions of WHS Acts, regulations and codes of practice relevant to the workplace, including legal responsibilities of employers, employees and other parties with legal responsibilities

principles and practices of effective WHS management

hazard identification and control in the workplace

organisational WHS management systems, policies and procedures that support organisational compliance with legal requirements

the impact on WHS management of workforce characteristics and composition

the relevance of WHS management to other organisational systems, policies and procedures.