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research project planning and safe working practices, including:project planning encompassing:purpose of project planningdocuments needed to plan a projectfactors influencing sequence and restraints of project activitiescritical path analysis encompassing:graphical representation methodsmethods of representing time/ratesproject management encompassing:defining project parameters - project scope; project stakeholders and clients; project phases and the relationship between phases; time requirements and limitations; resource requirements and limitations; quality requirements and limitationstime management - time management concepts and standard practices for ensuring a project runs to time financial management - financial management concepts; standard practices for managing project finances, project budgets, costs, variations and estimations; invoicing against project phases/deliverables and acquittals quality management - quality management concepts and standard practices for managing quality within a projecthuman resource management - human resource management concepts and standard practices for managing personnel within a projectcommunication management - communication management concepts and standard practices for managing communication within a project risk management and contingencies - risk management concepts; standard practices for managing risk within a project; internal risks; external risks; risk minimisation; risk removal and contingenciesprocurement management - procurement management concepts and standard practices for managing procurement physical resource management - types of physical resource, including equipment, technology, information and facilities; physical resource management concepts; and standard practices for managing physical resourcescontracts - understanding project contracts; standard practices for working to contract specifications; contract format; contract content; legal obligations of contract parties; and accompanying documentation, including contract schedules performance assessment and continuous improvement - standard performance assessment practices; standard continuous improvement practices engineering ethics principlesresearch concepts encompassing:terminology - terminology used in a research workplace and terminology used in research-specific literature theory – why conduct research, the history of research, past research successes, past research failures, research protocols and research practices the research environment - the research work environment; standard research practices; industrial, legal, ethical, political and market environment considerations; legislation and regulation; and contractual obligations of all parties planning to conduct research - concept development and/or research brief analysis; research objectives; research deliverables; research project plan; literature reviews; and methodology development, including experimental design, technology selection, and information management system selection clients - identifying client viewpoints and stake in project; identifying client requirements and parameters; determining research budgets, timelines, milestones and quality attributes with clientsresearch, development and commercialisation - research and development goals versus commercialisation goals and realities; research and development to inspire a commercialisation processwork in a team encompassing:types of teams - managerial, administrative, project-based, commercial and socialroles, responsibilities and accountabilities of team members - the role, responsibility and accountability of individuals, teams, organisational management and clients working in a team - identification and utilisation of team member skills and knowledge; maximising benefits of team diversity; team planning; team commitment and cooperation; improving/maximising team performance to achieve goals; team monitoring and adjustment; plain English literacy and communication; and leading, facilitating, participating, coaching and mentoringworking with clients - client relations, client liaison and the practice of working with clients conflict resolution – personality analysis tools and strategies for dealing with difficult people scientific writing and communication encompassing:types of scientific writing and communication - the distinguishing characteristics of the different types of scientific writingpurpose of the different types of scientific writing - product development justification and specifications; management advice; scientific papers/publications; conference/meeting presentations; policy documents; planning documents and reports types of audience - the features and characteristics of an audience, including an audience’s professional, social, cultural, ethnic background and physical and academic capabilities; the importance of ‘plain English’ written and oral communicationscientific writing techniques - the component parts of scientific documents, including aim, materials, method, results, discussion, conclusion, references and the required content of each component part; scientific referencing techniques, including bibliographies, reference lists, citations, footnotes, quotes, and acknowledgements; scientific labelling techniques, including graphs, tables, diagrams and figures; techniques for documenting results, including text, graphs, tables, diagrams and figures; organisational standards for document and presentation production, including standard organisational document templates, letterheads, headers, footers and logosoral communication techniques - techniques for communicating to large groups, including conference presentations and speeches; techniques for communicating to small groups, including meeting presentations, team discussions and planning forums electronic communication formats - world-wide-web – protocols and practices; email – protocols and practices; transfer of information via CD Rom/floppy disk; use of PDF and other secure filesconfidentiality considerations - confidentiality practices to protect the organisation, confidentiality practices to protect the client, and confidentiality practices to protect providers of information/research cohortsdata collection techniques encompassing:data types - quantitative data, including empirical, non-parametric, parametric; qualitative data; raw; graphic; diagrams; original; textual; multimedia and electronic data collection - data sources; consultation protocols and practices; survey methodologies, including interviews, surveys, chat rooms and focus groups; literature reviews, including traditional and web-based; group facilitation and presentation; questioning; active listening and clarification; obstacles to data collection, including unavailable data, inconsistent data, confidentiality, security and data limitationsevaluating data quality - reliability, accuracy, clarity, validity, contribution to research and relevance to research objectivesdata analysis and presentation encompassing:data analysis techniques - univariate analysis, multivariate analysis, decision trees, genetic algorithms, neural networks, gap analysis, urgency and impactdata analysis technique selection - determining the correct analysis techniques; determining the correct sequence of analysis techniques; accommodating influencing factors, including research objectives, budget, timeline and quality requirements, data limitations, confidentiality and security data interpretation - determining results; determining conclusions; benchmarking; quality assurance, including consideration of accuracy, validity and clarity data presentation:determining the correct form of presentation for the audience, including colleagues, scientific community, marketing and commercialisation specialists, general community, industry and mixed (i.e. conference audience)forms of documentary presentation, including reports, journal articles, scientific papers, graphs, tables, diagrams, electronic formats; forms of verbal presentation, including meetings, client briefings and conferences; support of a new concept; need for further research; commercialisation opportunity; and quality assurance, including accuracy, validity and clarity of information presentedproduct development and trials encompassing:identifying client and managerial requirements for production and trials - required outcome(s), key performance indicators (KPIs), timelines, financing, resources and quality assurance influencing factors - internal business goals and strategies; technical specifications (chemical, mechanical and environmental); industrial considerations; regulatory considerations; legislative considerations; intellectual property; Australian and international standards and codes of practice; market requirements; resource requirements, including personnel tools and equipment (principles and practices), materials and finances product development arrangements - licensing agreements, joint ventures and sole ventures relevant documentation - codes of practice; standard operating procedures (SOPs); product formulation documentation; safety data sheets (SDS)/material safety data sheets (MSDS); equipment and quality manuals; calibration and maintenance schedules; enterprise recording and reporting procedures; material, equipment and product specifications development and trial processes - proof of concept; trialling concepts; definitions/specifications; types of development and trial processes, including phase A product and trial, phase B product and trial, user trials, ergonomics and usability testing; pre-defined acceptance criteria, confidence limits; data collection and analysis; production; evaluation and recommendation formulationintellectual property concepts encompassing:intellectual property and Australian law - the place of intellectual property in Australian law, past cases and outcomes, and necessary considerations the nature of intellectual property - what is intellectual property? what isn’t intellectual property? why is intellectual property relevant? what can intellectual property rights do and what can’t intellectual property rights do?intellectual property rights - patents, copyright, designs, confidential information and other specialty rights managing intellectual property - identifying intellectual property; deciding what to protect; strategies for managing intellectual property; how can intellectual property rights work together; intellectual property versus time, effort, finances; sources of assistance, including publications, intellectual property professionals, lawyers, business advisors and marketing consultants enforcement of intellectual property - the enforcement process, the role of lawyers and resolutionthe changing face of intellectual property - development of intellectual property right laws; changes to intellectual property right laws; extensions of intellectual property rights into non-traditional areas, including cultural, property arenas and the global marketplace commercialisation concepts encompassing:commercialisation - definition of commercialisation; triggers for commercialisation; past commercialisation successes; past commercialisation failures; triggers for commercialisation; methods for identifying a good product/idea/service/application; sources of assistance in regard to commercialisation, including documents, lawyers, business advisors and marketing consultantsthe commercialisation process - the concept; does the concept fit with the organisation’s goals? is there a market? what is the market? will the product meet the market requirements? can the product be sold? how can the product be sold? can the product be produced? how can the product be produced? can the production be repeated?commercialisation arrangements - sole venture, joint venture, licensing and legal aspects of commercialisationcommercialisation planning - costing, marketing, production/development, distribution and salescompetition - who are the competitors? what are they doing and how quickly? And internal development relevant to competitioncritical analysis of the commercialisation process for continuous improvement - successes, opportunities for improvement, controllable influences, uncontrollable influences and formulation of recommendationswork health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) principles and fundamentals encompassing:underlying principles of WHS/OHSgeneral aims and objectives of the relevant state or territory legislation relating to WHS/OHSemployer and employee responsibilities, rights and obligationsmajor functions of safety committees and representativespowers given to WHS/OHS inspectorshousekeeping and potential hazards in relation to improper housekeepingselecting appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) given hazardous situationsthe work environment encompassing:typical hazards associated with a range of work environmentsprocedures used to control the risks associated with these hazardsprinciples of risk assessment / management and state the purpose of eachhierarchy of WHS/OHS hazard control measuresrequired documentation for risk assessmentcommonly used workplace safety signsworkplace emergencies that pose a threat to health and safety and suitable procedures for an emergency workplace evacuationappropriate fire extinguisher for a given type of firerequirements for the location, mounting and maintenance of portable fire extinguishersbasic process of fighting a fireimportance of safe premises, buildings and security in an industrial setting and the consequences of non-compliance with thesestandard work procedures and why they are required in some circumstancesmanual handling encompassing:typical manual handling injuries and the effect they can have on lifestylesituations that may cause manual handling injuriescorrect procedures for lifting and carrying to prevent manual handling injurieschemicals in the workplace encompassing:hazardous substances and dangerous goodsclassification of chemicals as hazardous substances and/or dangerous goodsrequirements for labelling of chemicals in the workplacesafe storage procedures for chemicalspurpose of and interpretation of SDS/MSDSworking at heights encompassing:dangers associated with working on ladders and scaffoldsidentification of work area as a height risk and use appropriate safety equipment to prevent a fallselecting an appropriate ladder for a given situation and performing a safety check before useprecautions that should be taken when ascending and working off a ladderprecautions that should be taken when working on and around a scaffold and elevated platformsconfined spaces encompassing:hazards associated with working in a confined spaceidentifying workplace situations that could be classified as a confined spacecontrol measures for working in a designated confined spacephysical and psychological hazards encompassing:short and long-term effects of excessive noise and techniques to avoid damage to hearing due to excessive noiseeffects of vibration on the human body and work practices to protect against vibrationeffects of thermal stress on the human body and work practices to protect against thermal stresseffects of ultraviolet (UV) radiation on the human body and work practices to protect against UV radiationdangers associated with laser operated equipment and tools and suitable protective measures to overcome the dangeroccupational overuse syndrome, how it occurs and means to overcome itfactors that cause stress in the workplace, symptoms of a person suffering from stress and personal stress management techniquesdetrimental effects and dangers of drug and alcohol use in the workplaceworking safely with electricity encompassing:effects of electric shock on the human bodycommon causes of electrical accidentsprecautions that can minimise the chance of electric shock (earthing, extra-low voltage (ELV), fuses, circuit breakers and residual current devices (RCDs))protection offered by RCDsneed for ensuring the (safe) isolation of an electrical supplyappropriate method of removing an electric shock victim from a live electrical situationlife support - cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in the workplace encompassing:first aidresponsibilities of the first aiderpriorities of first aid management for any accident or injuryprocedures required at an accident scenelegal and ethical issues, which may impact on the management of care'duty of care'examination of a casualty for injurieseffect of cardiopulmonary arrest on the bodymanaging simulated conditions of airway obstruction; respiratory arrest and cardiopulmonary arrestsingle and two-person CPRsigns and symptoms of an altered level of consciousnessmanagement of simulation of a casualty with an altered level of consciousnesssigns and symptoms of shockmanagement of simulation of a casualty in shockrelevant workplace documentationrelevant workplace policies and procedures. |