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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify or confirm regulatory requirements and organisational responsibilities
2. Current regulatory requirements, obligations and responsibilities for fitness for work within the organisation are identified and interpreted
3. National health assessment standards for rail safety workers and/or other applicable standards are accessed and interpreted
4. Current regulatory requirements, obligations and responsibilities regarding the use of drugs and alcohol by rail safety workers are identified and interpreted
5. Current regulatory requirements, obligations and responsibilities regarding fatigue management of rail safety workers are identified and interpreted
6. Risk-based approach is taken to developing programs that meet regulatory requirements
7. Establish and implement a fitness for work policy and procedures
8. Organisational fitness for work implementation plan is developed and/or reviewed and implemented in conjunction with relevant personnel
9. Organisational fatigue management policy and procedures are developed and/or reviewed and implemented
10. Policy and procedures related to drug and alcohol testing are developed and/or reviewed and implemented
11. Fitness for work policy and procedures are aligned to organisational return-to-work policy and procedures
12. Risk management approach is taken to identifying medical requirements for categories of rail safety workers
13. Fitness for work risk management system implementation plan and related policy and procedures are distributed and presented to relevant organisational personnel for implementation
14. Monitor implementation of fitness for work policy and procedures
15. Reports from designated personnel on the implementation of the organisation’s fitness for work risk management system implementation plan and related policies and procedures are received and interpreted
16. Reports on accidents and safety incidents are reviewed to identify the extent to which a breach of the fitness for work procedures might have been a contributing factor
17. Organisational activities are monitored and changes to organisation’s fitness for work risk management system and procedures are identified, and appropriate action is taken to make the necessary adjustments
18. Act upon identified breaches of fitness for work policy
19. Identified or reported breaches of fitness for work policy are investigated in accordance with organisational procedures and regulatory requirements
20. Action is taken to ensure internal and/or external personnel who may have contributed to any breach of fitness for work policy are provided with appropriate feedback and information to avoid any recurrence of the breakdown in planned processes
21. Where organisational procedures or culture are found to have contributed to a breach in fitness for work policy, appropriate action is taken to improve procedures or to address the culture in ways that aim to avoid any recurrence of the breakdown
22. Reports on breaches of fitness for work policy are prepared and submitted to designated personnel in accordance with organisational procedures and/or regulatory requirements
23. Ensure operations systems are compliant with fitness for work policy and regulations
24. All operations systems and standard operating procedures are reviewed in terms of their compliance with the organisation’s fitness for work policy and regulations
25. Changes are made to operations systems and standard operating procedures to ensure they are compliant as required
26. Supplier and/or subcontractor operations systems and standard operating procedures are reviewed to ensure they are compliant with fitness for work policy and regulations, in accordance with legislated requirements
27. Identify required resources and operational systems
28. Resources to support the implementation of the organisation’s fitness for work risk management system are identified and submitted to appropriate authority
29. Organisation’s fitness for work risk management systems resources are periodically reviewed and appropriate changes are made or requested
30. Communicate fitness for work policy and procedures
31. Appropriate personnel affected by organisational fitness for work policy and procedures are identified
32. Organisational fitness for work policy and procedures are communicated to appropriate personnel using effective strategies
33. Team leaders, supervisory and training staff are provided with adequate resources to deliver organisational fitness for work communications strategies

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:

adapting to changes in legislation and regulations as they relate to fitness for work communicating effectively with others when implementing the organisation’s fitness for work management system developing a fitness for work system for an organisation identifying job hazards and taking required action to minimise, control or eliminate identified hazards identifying fitness for work requirements within an organisation organising audits and reviews of an organisation’s fitness for work management system reading and interpreting documentation on fitness for work management legislation recognising breaches of fitness for work management strategies and regulations, and taking appropriate action in accordance with the organisation’s fitness for work management system reviewing current fitness for work procedures working collaboratively with rail safety workers and management to implement the organisation’s fitness for work management system.

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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:

components of a fitness for work risk management system procedures for auditing and reviewing an organisation’s fitness for work management system, and related policy and procedures, and for reporting audit outcomes relevant sections of applicable state/territory legislated rail safety requirements and regulations related to: fatigue management, drug and alcohol use, and medical requirements in the rail industry work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) relevant documentation to develop and manage fitness for work policy and procedures responsibilities of an organisation and individual employees for implementing fitness for work policy and regulations risk-based approaches to developing fitness for work programs strategies for ensuring that the investigation and analysis of errors, safety incidents and accidents identify the extent to which fitness for work is a contributing factor systems for auditing the effectiveness of an organisation’s fitness for work management strategies, policies and procedures.

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