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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Interpret key legislation and guidelines of the water industry
   • Access and interpret the relevant guidelines and legislative requirements.
   • Analyse the key features or elements.
   • Establish the relationships between the guidelines and the state and territory requirements.
2. Lead compliance with legislation and reporting function
   • Interpret organisation standards and processes for reporting compliance with legislative requirements.
   • Integrate legislative requirements into organisation water quality management plan.
   • Provide advice on the links between the regulatory framework and work practices.
   • Convey importance of multiple barrier principles and their general function to team members.
   • Manage risks utilising the organisation’s risk management principles.
   • Collate relevant collected data to support compliance and review for completeness and accuracy.
   • Refine and disseminate compliance reporting procedures.
3. Communicate compliance with legislation to team members
   • Establish steps to monitor compliance and reporting function.
   • Address identified areas of non-compliance and take corrective action.
   • Provide feedback on compliance issues to team members.
   • Make recommendation for preventative measures.
   • Drive continuous improvement of work practices to achieve water quality outcomes.
4. Interpret key legislation and guidelines of the water industry
   • Access and interpret the relevant guidelines and legislative requirements.
   • Analyse the key features or elements.
   • Establish the relationships between the guidelines and the state and territory requirements.
5. Lead compliance with legislation and reporting function
   • Interpret organisation standards and processes for reporting compliance with legislative requirements.
   • Integrate legislative requirements into organisation water quality management plan.
   • Provide advice on the links between the regulatory framework and work practices.
   • Convey importance of multiple barrier principles and their general function to team members.
   • Manage risks utilising the organisation’s risk management principles.
   • Collate relevant collected data to support compliance and review for completeness and accuracy.
   • Refine and disseminate compliance reporting procedures.
6. Communicate compliance with legislation to team members
   • Establish steps to monitor compliance and reporting function.
   • Address identified areas of non-compliance and take corrective action.
   • Provide feedback on compliance issues to team members.
   • Make recommendation for preventative measures.
   • Drive continuous improvement of work practices to achieve water quality outcomes.

Range Statement

Guidelines include:

ADWG (Australian Drinking Water Guidelines) Australian Sewage Quality Management Guidelines AGWR (Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling)

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. To be deemed competent the candidate must be assessed using at least one of the guidelines listed in the Range of. If not otherwise specified the candidate must demonstrate evidence of performance of the following on at least one occasion.

interpreting, analysing and applying relevant legislative requirements, complex industry codes and standards

collating and analysing information

providing advice and feedback

communicating principles of relevant guidelines and putting into context

initiating problem solving

managing risks on a specific project or site

accessing and interpreting risk management principles

managing risk control measures

integrating requirements of risk management plans

analysing records of water quality incidents

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the depth of knowledge demonstrated must be appropriate to the job context of the candidate.

Operational knowledge of:

relevant guidelines guiding principles

framework for the management of drinking water quality (including the twelve elements)

established organisational risk management procedures

water quality risk assessment and control procedures

water cycle

ecologically sustainable development

water quality risk factors and performance indicators

relevant legislation, codes, standards

chronic and acute health impacts from human exposure

concept of the Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY)

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