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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify legislative and regulatory requirements for reporting notifiable occurrences
2. Legislative and regulatory requirements for reporting notifiable rail safety occurrences are identified and accessed
3. Individual state/territory requirements for reporting notifiable rail safety occurrence are accessed and interpreted
4. Applicable state/territory documentation required for reporting notifiable rail safety occurrences is accessed and interpreted
5. Legislative and state/territory requirements for reporting notifiable rail safety occurrences are communicated to relevant organisational personnel
6. Complete and submit notifiable occurrence documentation
7. Notifiable rail safety occurrence is checked against documentation to determine appropriate manner and timing for reporting occurrence
8. Reporting documentation for notifiable rail safety occurrence is retrieved, completed and submitted in accordance with regulatory requirements
9. Top event in the notifiable occurrence is identified and reported in accordance with regulatory requirements
10. Contribute to investigating a notifiable occurrence
11. Contribution is made to investigating a notifiable rail safety occurrence in accordance with organisational safety management system requirements
12. Evidence is collected and managed in accordance with organisational procedures and regulatory requirements
13. Organisational information is managed appropriately to ensure consistency between multiple agency investigations
14. Confidentiality is maintained in accordance with organisational and regulatory requirements
15. Occurrence reports including recommendations and/or lessons learnt are submitted to relevant personnel in accordance with regulatory requirements and organisational procedures

Range Statement

Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment.

Non-essential conditions can be found in the Companion Volume Implementation Guide.

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria on at least one occasion and include:

applying relevant legislation and workplace procedures communicating effectively with others verbally and in writing completing a notification form for an identified notifiable occurrence completing a report on a notifiable occurrence identifying a top event from a notifiable occurrence identifying notifiable occurrence legislative and regulatory requirements interpreting and following operational instructions and prioritising work reading and interpreting relevant instructions, procedures and information working collaboratively with others.

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of:

information and evidence collection and preservation techniques for notifiable occurrences principles of a just culture as applied to investigating notifiable occurrences relevant legislation, rail safety national law, regulations, permit and licence requirements relating to rail safety management systems (SMSs) requirements for investigating and reporting notifiable occurrences requirements of organisational SMSs and incident management plans workplace procedures and instructions for notifiable occurrence reports.

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