Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify scope of audit
- Identify work areas, processes and equipment covered by own audit responsibility
- Undertake measurement tasks
- Identify need, if any, for technical assistance from employees in work area or support sections
- Measure specified inputs to process or work area
- Measure specified outputs for process or work area
- Calculate difference between input and output
- Calculate measurable sources of waste for process or work area
- Determine difference between measurable and theoretical waste for process or work area
- Compare results to external targets where appropriate
- Communicate results to audit team
- Assist in developing strategies for reducing the use of specified input
- Rank equipment or processes by use of specified input and waste generation
- Calculate current minimum input use by unit of product
- Develop strategies individually or with others to reduce input use for process or work area
- Develop strategies individually or with others to minimise waste for process or work area
- Identify strategies that may have regulatory implications
- Prepare recommendations for consideration by audit team and stakeholders