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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Confirm regulatory and organisational requirements and responsibilities
2. Regulatory and organisational requirements for establishing rail interface agreements and their ongoing monitoring are identified and accessed
3. Types of interfaces for which agreements are to be established and/or monitored are identified and confirmed as requiring an interface agreement, in accordance with regulatory and organisational requirements
4. Organisational responsibilities for establishing rail interface agreements and their ongoing monitoring are identified
5. Parties to be included in each rail interface agreement are identified and confirmed
6. Communications are established with identified parties and regulators, and respective roles and responsibilities are established and agreed
7. Establish and monitor rail interface agreements
8. Documentation to be implemented as part of the rail interface agreement is identified and accessed
9. Risk assessments are carried out to identify potential risks arising from the rail interface
10. Measures to manage identified risks and timeframes for implementation are established in accordance with regulatory requirements, and organisational policies and procedures
11. Approval of rail interface agreement is sought from all parties involved, in accordance with regulatory requirements, and organisational policies and procedures
12. Rail interface agreement is implemented and monitored in accordance with regulatory requirements, and organisational policies and procedures
13. Register of all rail interface agreements is established and maintained in accordance with regulatory requirements, and organisational policies and procedures
14. Relevant parties requiring access to rail interface agreements register are identified and access is provided in accordance with regulatory requirements, and organisational policies and procedures
15. Conduct rail interface agreement audits
16. Periodic rail interface agreement audits are conducted in accordance with regulatory requirements and organisational policies
17. Identified noncompliance and/or variations to rail interface agreement are identified and communicated to appropriate parties for resolution
18. Audit reports are compiled and transmitted to appropriate parties

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 conducting audits of an organisation’s rail interface agreements developing rail interface agreement documentation identifying an organisation’s rail interface agreement requirements negotiating effectively reading and interpreting rail interface agreement legislation documentation reviewing a rail interface agreement working collaboratively with employees and management.

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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 rail interface system procedures for auditing an organisation’s rail interface agreements and reporting audit outcomes relevant legislation and regulations relating to rail interfaces responsibilities of an organisation and employees for implementing rail interface agreements.

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