Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare to evaluate structure
- Confirm and apply safe working practices relating to aircraft structure
- Determine parameters and context of applications and purpose of evaluation
- Confirm personal functions and responsibilities, team and support functional group interdependencies and communications
- Confirm that tasks and responsibilities are appropriate to qualifications and delegations and that appropriate support, including technical and professional assistance, is available
- Determine chain of responsibility for the activity evaluation, reporting arrangements and timelines
- Identify work health and safety (WHS) and regulatory requirements with particular emphasis on safety, codes of practice and standards, including airworthiness regulatory requirements for aircraft structure, risk management and organisational procedures
- Identify principles and techniques required for evaluation of aircraft structure
- Evaluate aircraft structure and structural components
- Evaluate proposed modifications to structure and structural components
- Evaluate structural maintenance requirements
- Evaluate structural damage and defect history
- Evaluate proposed repair schemes and extensions to existing schemes
- Evaluate for compliance with WHS Acts, regulations, codes, directives and standards/specifications, including those related to risk management
- Report results