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Elements and Performance Criteria
- Conduct site sampling
- Conduct testing
- Maintain records
- Prepare for on-site operations
- Identify site hazards and identify appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) and safety procedures that are specified for the job and materials used
- Record description of the job to be undertaken, compare with specification and report any variations
- Arrange for the collection, checking, stowing and transport of all tools, equipment and materials required at the site
- Ensure site access requirements, such as entry permits and safety inductions, have been organised
- Arrange excavation of boreholes, test pits and/or trenches
- Excavate or oversee excavation to the sampling and testing depth, minimising disturbance and potential contamination of the site
- Identify materials and record changes of strata, test results and other relevant information
- Ensure materials from different strata are kept separate
- Terminate the excavation at the appropriate depth and record the reason for termination
- Take disturbed and undisturbed samples in accordance with workplace methods and procedures
- Label and record samples in accordance with workplace methods and procedures
- Recognise and record details of site conditions that may impact on sample integrity or site interpretation
- Perform, or assist with performing, tests in accordance with test methods or workplace procedures
- Record test data in accordance with test methods or workplace procedures
- Recognise obvious errors or atypical data and take appropriate corrective actions
- Finalise site operations
- Reinstate surfaces disturbed by sampling or testing
- Clean all equipment (and vehicle, as necessary) avoiding environmental damage, stormwater contamination or spread of pests
- Check all equipment and materials prior to re-stowing them for safe transport
- Handle and transport samples in accordance with established practices
- Notify appropriate site personnel on completion of investigations and prior to leaving site
- Check serviceability of test equipment before storage on return to base
- Complete site safety plans, equipment logs and test reports in accordance with workplace procedures
- Maintain confidentiality of workplace information
- Maintain a safe work environment
- Minimise environmental impacts of testing/sampling and generation of waste
- Collect and/or dispose of all waste in accordance with workplace procedures