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. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. |
Relevant compliance documentation may include: | legislative, organisational and site requirements and procedures manufacturer's guidelines and specifications Australian standards code of practice Employment and workplace relations legislation Equal Employment Opportunity and Disability Discrimination legislation |
Scope of work may include: | tendering/quoting site inspections liaising with clients crew selection/training purchase/acquisition of equipment |
Relevant parties may include: | landholders geologists engineers drilling crews government departments utility providers |
Communication may include: | face to face telephone 2-way radio written documentation SAT phones |
Legal requirements may include: | environmental protection groundwater protection licensing occupational health and safety |
Legal responsibilities may include: | notice to the licensing body of intention to start work on hole or well, or in certain areas provision of dates when drilling would be in progress provision of statutory records and samples by due date |
Topographical and geological features may be determined by various methods, including: | geological and topographical maps air photos, photogrammetric methods generally site inspection (foot, 2- or all wheel drive) |
Relevant information may include: | maps (e.g. road, geological and topographical maps, site mud maps) surveys written instructions drawings reports (e.g. mines reports, geological reports, logs from previous drilling) |
Hazards may include: | electricity wires (underground and overhead) (pressured) water pipes telephone lines/cables, fibre optic cables gas pipes pipes containing 'other' fluids (e.g. petroleum, stormwater, sewers) predominant wind direction |
Methods of drilling and down hole tools may include: | cable tool auger: solid flight hollow flight bucket short flight rotary mud rotary air: rotary air blast down hole hammer reverse circulation hammer air core vibro core directional drilling coal seam drilling sampling tools - push tubes, core barrels, bits and reamers |
Data may include: | checklists of all activities and material wastage factors contingency allowances schedules of quantities and rates organisation's procedures for calculating and presenting estimates inspection of cores or chip samples from earlier drilling programs bore logs and geological/geotechnical reports |
Mathematical calculations may include: | carrying out addition, subtraction, multiplication, division length using appropriate instruments to measure: width height diameter weight angle temperature using calculator using estimating skills (e.g. mental arithmetic, visualisation of size and quantity) |
Permits and licences may include: | Drillers licence (water well and environmental sectors) Breathing Apparatus (BA) Certificate proof of attendance at occupational health and safety course Bore licence Exploration licence Hot work permit Confined space permit Permit To Work authority well control certification |
Application for permits and licences may be made with: | State and Territory governments Water authorities Fire department, Mines Rescue Organisations (BA Training) Environment Protection Authorities (EPAs) various groundwater consultants industrial complex on which work is being conducted |
Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) plan may include information, legislation and code of practice including: | duties and responsibilities materials safety data sheets (MSDS) Hazchem registers maintenance of records of occupational injury and disease provision of information and training setting up/working with occupational health and safety committees emergency response plan |