Elements and Performance Criteria
- Conduct an environmental health appreciation
- Situation in which environmental health support is to be provided is determined, to appreciate the scope and context of support required
- Health intelligence sources are accessed and reviewed to inform the environmental health appreciation
- Health threat assessment is conducted to identify the key health threats that exist and which require attention during environmental health planning
- Environmental health tasks to address each determined health threat are identified to form the basis for course of action identification
- Courses of action are determined that incorporate the identified tasks and are suited to the scope and context of support required
- Courses of action are compared using responsiveness to potential obstacles and key health threats as a basis for comparison
- Health appreciation findings are formulated into a brief and are presented to relevant personnel for critique and guidance on the course of action to be adopted for development
- Develop environmental health plan
- Environmental health teams are identified for specific tasking within the plan
- Environmental health assets are allocated within the plan along with the need to re-allocate environmental health assets and the need to obtain additional assistance outside of integral assets to support the plan
- Environmental health tasking is prioritised and sequenced within the plan to minimise the health threat to the organisation and to enable sustained environmental health support
- Principles of health support are applied to the plan to ensure the plan complements the nature and circumstances of the activity being supported
- Plan is developed in detail to minimise oversight and to ensure it can survive changing circumstances and be adaptable to situations presented
- Plan is documented and presented to relevant personnel for approval
- Points of adjustment advised by relevant personnel are integrated into plan to ensure plan complements the higher operational objectives