Elements and Performance Criteria
- Provide information about the scope of legal and organisational compliance procedures
- Access, interpret and apply compliance documentation relevant to the work activity
- Explain relevant provisions of legislation and code of practice relevant to the workplace and how they impact on business arrangements
- Provide information on the organisation's policies, procedures, programs and business arrangements within the legal compliance context
- Evaluate, provide information and documentation to the work group regarding legal compliance
- Obtain approval of plans from relevant personnel
- Implement and monitor organisation's procedures for the management of legal compliance
- Implement and monitor legal compliance management systems and procedures to maximise compliance opportunities
- Search for, identify, review and report on legal compliance requirements regularly so issues may be raised and dealt with in a prompt and appropriate manner
- Identify and periodically review if adequate resources have been allocated to implement legal compliance and inform appropriate parties promptly
- Ensure all members of the workgroup have the opportunity to contribute to issues on legal compliance and ensure information is stored and reviewed within the organisation
- Implement, monitor and prioritise compliance requirements within organisational procedures
- Collect and review information on legal compliance and report any existing or potential non-compliance issues so they can be addressed appropriately
- Evaluate and clarify compliance information to all relevant personnel
- Identify implications of non-compliance
- Group legal compliance requirements into critical, important and incidental classifications so that non-compliance issues can be prioritised and appropriate measures implemented to prevent or minimise reoccurrence of non-compliance
- Implement, monitor and document procedures and training for compliance requirements
- Identify, implement, monitor and provide documentation on training needs and workplace procedures to ensure compliance
- Monitor and report to relevant personnel legal compliance measures to ensure legal compliance is part of the organisation's general training program
- Implement appropriate legal compliance training programs in consultation with relevant personnel
- Identify and report inadequacies in existing legal compliance measures and resource allocation to management
- Implement and monitor procedures for maintaining legal records and for dealing with non-compliance events
- Implement workplace procedures to deal with non-compliance events in a timely manner while keeping accurate legal records
- Identify and investigate the cause of non-compliance events using the work areas records in accordance with investigation procedures
- Minimise recurrence of non-compliance by using systems for reporting maintenance of legal compliance