Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare to operate signal control location
- Reporting for duty is undertaken in accordance with work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) requirements and organisational policies and procedures
- Appropriate network control officer is contacted as required in accordance with organisational policies and procedures
- Documentation is checked for local activities and/or rail traffic movements that may affect rail traffic operations in accordance with organisational procedures and policies
- Signalling equipment is switched in for use as required
- Operation of equipment is tested in accordance with organisational policies and procedures
- Control local rail traffic movements
- Local rail traffic movements are coordinated with relevant personnel in accordance with organisational policies and procedures
- Signalling systems are operated and monitored to ensure safe movement of rail traffic
- Activities that may affect operations are reported and recorded in accordance with organisational policies and procedures
- Communicate with relevant personnel
- Communication with relevant rail safety workers is undertaken to ensure they are informed of local rail traffic movements, in accordance with organisational policies and procedures
- Communication with other relevant personnel is undertaken to ensure they are informed of local rail traffic movements, in accordance with organisational policies and procedures
- Monitor and respond to system alarms
- System alarms are monitored as required by organisational policies and procedures
- Activated alarms are responded to appropriately and reported to appropriate personnel in accordance with organisational policies and procedures
- Identified faults are reported to appropriate personnel in accordance with organisational policies and procedures
- Implement contingency plans as instructed
- Contingency plan to suit disruption, system failure or fault is actioned as instructed, in accordance with organisational policies and procedures
- Local rail traffic movements are adjusted in accordance with organisational and/or local operational requirements
- Communications with network control officer and other relevant personnel are established and maintained as required
- Update local rail traffic movement documentation
- Local rail traffic movement documentation is amended, compiled and recorded in accordance with organisational policies and procedures
- Local rail traffic movement information and documentation are handed over when relieved and/or at the completion of shift, in accordance with organisational policies and procedures
- Handover control to relieving signaller
- Relieving signaller is informed of operational status and ongoing issues in accordance with organisational policies and procedures
- Documentation is checked to ensure it is uptodate and is then endorsed in accordance with organisational policies and procedures
- Take over control from signaller
- Information on operational status and ongoing issues is received from signaller in accordance with organisational policies and procedures
- Documentation is checked to ensure it corresponds to operational status and is then endorsed in accordance with organisational policies and procedures