Application
This unit supports the attainment of skills and knowledge required for staff with a specific responsibility for ensuring that the operation of surface water systems complies with the requirements of the organisation's Surface Water Management Plan and with relevant organisational and statutory requirements. The level of responsibility may vary according to the size, scope and complexity of the surface water system. |
Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Elements and Performance Criteria
ELEMENT | PERFORMANCE CRITERIA |
1Confirm SWMP performance measures. | 1.1 Identify water flow requirements in surface water sources. 1.2 Identify water quality and quantity requirements, including release rates. 1.3 Identify environmental factors that may impact on water flows and quality. 1.4 Identify performance measures for the resource and operations. 1.5 Access historic information and consult stakeholders as required. |
2Monitor the performance of assets. | 2.1 Carry out monitoring and testing programs. 2.2 Correctly select, fit and use personal protective equipment. 2.3 Monitor assets to ensure performance meets specifications in the SWMP. 2.4 Schedule maintenance programs to meet current and potential problems. |
3Monitor and coordinate processes. | 3.1 Test and monitor water usage and quality according to the SWMP. 3.2 Coordinate processes to meet SWMP requirements and targets. 3.3 Take action to optimise system performance. |
4Report the outcomes of testing and monitoring. | 4.1 Analyse, record and report coordination and monitoring data according to organisational procedures and statutory requirements. 4.2 Identify and report current or potential problems. |
Required Skills
This describes the essential skills and knowledge and their level, required for this unit. |
Required skills: interpret and apply legislation and policies coordinate measuring and testing activities consult with customers and stakeholders conduct site inspections lead work teams assess personal and team performance perform system calculations conduct investigations identify problems assess environmental impact use personal protective equipment. |
Required knowledge: relevant legislation relevant enterprise policies measuring and testing procedures investigation procedures surface water system customer expectations and requirements climatic and weather characteristics and impacts hydraulic analysis. |
Evidence Required
The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the Performance Criteria, Required Skills and Knowledge, the Range Statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package. | |
Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit | The candidate should demonstrate the ability to coordinate and monitor the operation of surface water systems including: identifying water flow, quality and quantity requirements and any environmental factors that may affect these identifying surface water system performance measures from the SWMP accessing historic information consulting stakeholders conducting or supervising asset monitoring and testing programs scheduling asset maintenance programs conducting or supervising testing and monitoring of water usage and water quality coordinating processes to meet targets and optimise system performance analysing data, completing records and producing reports identifying and reporting current and potential problems. |
Context of and specific resources for assessment | Access to the workplace and resources including: documentation that should normally be available in a water industry organisation relevant codes, standards, and government regulations. Where applicable, physical resources should include equipment modified for people with disabilities. Access must be provided to appropriate learning and/or assessment support when required. Assessment processes and techniques must be culturally appropriate, and appropriate to the language and literacy capacity of the candidate and the work being performed. Validity and sufficiency of evidence requires that: competency will need to be demonstrated over a period of time reflecting the scope of the role and the practical requirements of the workplace where the assessment is part of a structured learning experience the evidence collected must relate to a number of performances assessed at different points in time and separated by further learning and practice a decision of competence should only be made when the assessor has complete confidence in the person's competence over time and in various contexts all assessment that is part of a structured learning experience must include a combination of direct, indirect and supplementary evidence where assessment is for the purpose of recognition (RCC/RPL), the evidence provided will need to be authenticated and show that it represents competency demonstrated over a period of time assessment can be through simulated project-based activity and must include evidence relating to each of the elements in this unit. In all cases where practical assessment is used it will be combined with targeted questioning to assess the underpinning knowledge. Questioning will be undertaken in a manner appropriate to the skill levels of the operator, any cultural issues that may affect responses to the questions, and reflecting the requirements of the competency and the work being performed. |
Range Statement
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the Performance Criteria, is detailed below. Add any essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment depending on the work situation, needs if the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts. | |
Water flow requirements may include: | usage and environment allocations licenses legislation enterprise policies. |
Surface water sources may include: | dams reservoirs weirs rivers lakes creeks and streams wetlands off stream storage catchment areas storage tanks. |
Environmental factors may include: | environmental flow requirements catchment usage and management weather and climate rainfall run-off chemicals salinity nutrients reservoir operations natural events. |
Performance measures may include: | setting targets and objectives for quantity quality stakeholders future use. |
Historic information may include: | hydrological information previous monitoring studies geological data hydro-geological data land use studies environmental management studies anecdotal information from land owners. |
Stakeholders may include: | water consumers government water authorities environmental departments general public interest groups industry extractive industry. |
Monitoring and testing programs may include: | resource yields resource status flow rates testing procedures testing medium testing frequency sampling locations testing variables land use changes. |
Sectors
Not applicable.
Competency Field
Collection and distribution |
Employability Skills
This unit of competency contains employability skills. |
Licensing Information
Not applicable.