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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Plan and prepare for the application and monitoring of the strata management plan
   • Access, interpret and apply strata management plan documentation, and ensure the work activity is compliant
   • Identify, clarify and communicate roles and responsibilities
   • Identify obtain and allocate resources required for the application of the strata management plan
   • Identify individual training needs and prepare training plans
   • Identify and interpret the risks associated with unstable mining structures
2. Apply the strata management plan
   • Communicate, apply and monitor site mining system
   • Communicate and apply primary, secondary and other support systems
   • Identify and assess the impact of mining on the stability of mining structures
   • Install, monitor and assess strata support systems
   • Install, monitor and assess strata monitoring devices
   • Identify and assess strata supports and failure mechanisms and apply appropriate controls
   • Apply, monitor and record mining sequences
   • Identify and assess and record stress changes in the mining structure
   • Identify, assess and record geological structures encountered during the mining process
   • Apply action response plans
   • Apply and monitor site procedures relating to strata management
   • Participate in audit and review requirements
   • Implement training plans
3. Apply monitoring and maintenance procedures
   • Carry out inspection and ensure that repair and maintenance activities are conducted in accordance with strata management plan
   • Record, report and review maintenance and monitoring requirements and activities
4. Plan and prepare for the application and monitoring of the strata management plan
   • Access, interpret and apply strata management plan documentation, and ensure the work activity is compliant
   • Identify, clarify and communicate roles and responsibilities
   • Identify obtain and allocate resources required for the application of the strata management plan
   • Identify individual training needs and prepare training plans
   • Identify and interpret the risks associated with unstable mining structures
5. Apply the strata management plan
   • Communicate, apply and monitor site mining system
   • Communicate and apply primary, secondary and other support systems
   • Identify and assess the impact of mining on the stability of mining structures
   • Install, monitor and assess strata support systems
   • Install, monitor and assess strata monitoring devices
   • Identify and assess strata supports and failure mechanisms and apply appropriate controls
   • Apply, monitor and record mining sequences
   • Identify and assess and record stress changes in the mining structure
   • Identify, assess and record geological structures encountered during the mining process
   • Apply action response plans
   • Apply and monitor site procedures relating to strata management
   • Participate in audit and review requirements
   • Implement training plans
6. Apply monitoring and maintenance procedures
   • Carry out inspection and ensure that repair and maintenance activities are conducted in accordance with strata management plan
   • Record, report and review maintenance and monitoring requirements and activities

Performance Evidence

Evidence is required to be collected that demonstrates a candidate’s competency in this unit. Evidence must be relevant to the roles within this sector’s work operations and satisfy all of the requirements of the performance criteria of this unit and include evidence that the candidate:

locates and applies relevant legislation, documentation, policies and procedures

implements the requirements, procedures and techniques for the safe, effective and efficient completion of strata management plan application and monitoring including:

reading, interpreting, communicating and applying technical information

accessing and interpreting data from monitoring systems and equipment

accessing and analysing historical strata management information related to the mine and failure mode of mine structures

interpreting and applying design criteria for strata management

conducting enquiries/investigations and preparing audit reports

identifying training needs, and preparing and implementing training plans

works effectively with others to plan, prepare and conduct strata management plan application and monitoring that meets all of the required outcomes including:

organising work activities to meet all task requirements

communicating clearly and concisely with others to receive and clarify work instructions

complying with written and verbal reporting requirements and procedures

resolving coordination requirements throughout work activities

demonstrates completion of applying and monitoring the strata management plan that safely, effectively and efficiently meets all of the required outcomes on more than one (1) occasion including:

identifying the factors affecting stability of mining structures such as:

roadway size

pillar sizes

depth of cover

strength of coal and underlying/overlying strata

stress regimes

strata characteristics

longwall chocks

presence of water

systems of mining

breaker line supports

direction of mining

sequence of pillar extraction

primary and secondary support

geological structures

speed and continuity of extraction

applying strata monitoring devices such as:

convergence indicators

extensometers

load cells

stress cells

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of applying and monitoring the strata management plan through:

accessing, interpreting and applying legislative, organization and site requirements and procedures for:

accessing and interpreting mine plans, ventilation, gas monitoring, strata support and safety management plans

identifying and managing environmental issues, hazards and risks

identifying systems of underground mining including:

tunnels, drifts, stone drivage, shaft sinking, pillar extraction, partial extraction, punch mining and fault drivage

identifying exploration techniques

identifying strata support and monitoring systems

identifying geology and strata gas characteristics

identifying factors affecting stability of mining structures including:

stress: including mining induced stress, vertical and horizontal stress, tectonics, virgin stress, topographical features

sedimentology: including subsidence, water bearing strata, permeability of seam and strata, hydrology, rock property testing, caving characteristics, windblast, faults, dykes, outburst, gas content and over and underlying strata

mining structure failure modes

identifying systems of work: including bord and pillar, place changing, longwall, highwall, auger mining, pillar extraction, partial extension and punch mining

identifying and applying emergency response and evacuation/disaster planning processes and techniques

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