Elements and Performance Criteria

Risk management principles may include:
Six categories of exposures (personal, property, financial, environmental, product and administrative); legislative compliance; workplace health & safety; procedure systems; vicarious liability; professional liability.

Risk management plans may include:
Identification of hazards, assessment of risks, identification of control measures, implementation of control measures and review of control measures, reference to conduct and reporting of hazard and operability studies (HAZOPS) and hazard analysis studies (HAZANS) for critical incidents, recognition of six categories of exposures (personal, property, financial, environmental, product and administrative); legislative compliance; workplace health & safety; standard operating procedures; vicarious liability; professional liability, reducing loss & exposure in the work environment from: personal loss- injury/common law, property loss - damage, financial - loss of income/theft, environmental liability, product - project work, administrative exposure, identification and use of Manufacturer's specifications and Australian/New Zealand and ISO Standards, contingency plans for response to critical incidents.

Appropriate and relevant personnel may include:
Organisation employees; contractors; consultants; maintenance personnel; appropriately experienced and qualified personnel; drivers, cleaners, grounds and site security personnel, other managers; other supervisors; inter-company departments; other utilities; council representatives; producers, transporters/shippers; consultants; government bodies/agencies; refinery personnel; customers; land owners.

Authorisation may include:
Responsibility assigned for the application of relevant management practices to approve measures according to company polices, procedures and processes; legislative and/or regulatory requirements.

Risks may include:
Injury, death, illness, damage to plant/equipment, financial loss, non-compliance with legislation, damage to products.

Hazards may include:
Confined spaces, gas, electricity, manual handling, noise, plant & equipment, infected blood, chemicals, temperature, lighting, radiation.

Control measures may include:
Elimination of hazards, work procedures, Standard Operating Procedures, Personal Protective Equipment, fire safety, plant and equipment isolation, selection and/or training of appropriate personnel, communications with appropriate personnel, supervision of appropriate personnel, management of control measures

Relevant documentation may include:
Australian/New Zealand and ISO Standards; company risk management policy; codes of practice; standard operating procedures; Australian Dangerous Goods; trade practices; Occupational Health and Safety reporting requirements; injury reporting; claims management; contractor control; hazardous substances management.

Legislative requirements may include:
Occupational Health &Safety legislation; State or Territory gas and petroleum acts and regulations; environmental/protection legislation; workers compensation legislation; employee code of conduct; anti discrimination legislation; equal employment opportunity legislation; disability legislation; trade practices legislation; Mabo legislation; related regulations; common law.

Emergency exercises may involve:
Desktop and in-field simulation emergency exercises (involving fire; explosion; vapour/liquid leak; excavated/ruptured pipeline; LPG road/rail accidents; loss of supply); lost or unaccounted for personnel; medical emergencies.

Emergency appliances may include:
Emergency trucks/trailers; emergency plant (compressors, cranes, welding equipment etc); breathing apparatus; fire fighting equipment.

Contingency plans may include:
Emergency responses to a range of abnormal operating conditions; plans for responses to critical incidents; prioritisation of proposed responses.

Safety devices may include:
Deluge systems; emergency stop devices; Personal Protective Equipment.

Audit elements may include:
Occupational Health & Safety accountability and responsibility; Occupational Health & Safety consultation and reporting requirements; localised Occupational Health & Safety audits; Occupational Health & Safety inductions; emergency planning & procedures; injury reporting, claims management & rehabilitation; contractor control; purchasing control; plant & maintenance control; manual handling management; hazardous substance management; specific workplace issues.

Critical aspects of evidence
These will include demonstrated competence to effectively develop, implement and review the selected risk management system, including undertaking risk assessment, identifying hazards, eliminating hazards, implementing and reviewing control measures. Interpretation, application, and enforcement of relevant legislation; Australian Standards; codes of work practice and company standard operating procedures to ensure safety in operations. Identifying and carrying out emergency exercises for critical incidents including understanding of the use of HAZOPS and HAZANS. Identifying contingency plans for critical incidents and testing those contingency plans. Authorise and process relevant documentation to permit activities to be undertaken, cancelled or completed.
It is essential that the interactions between hazards, communities and environments be fully identified and described. Evaluation of risk must be undertaken against established criteria in consultation with relevant communities.

Context of assessment
Evidence of competence in this unit should be collected in one or more actual situations or scenarios where there is the capacity to demonstrate the required evidence in a real or simulated environment. Assessment of competency, including attainment of relevant knowledge and skills may be made through practical demonstration in an on-the-job or off-the-job work environment or simulation of such an environment

Pre-requisites
This unit requires, as an entry, attainment of either Certificate III in Gas Operations, Certificate IV in Gas Operations or Diploma of Gas Operations. Entry may also be accepted from those with relevant diplomas of engineering and/or science. As such they would be expected to have sufficient underpinning knowledge and skills in mathematics and science which should accelerate their progress through this unit which leads to the Advanced Diploma in Gas Systems. However, should this not be the case a suitable bridging program is to form part of the entry requirement.

Knowledge of Skills
A knowledge of:
Risk management models; problems likely to preclude the implementation of intervention strategies; potential hazards and their consequences; planning theory and processes; benchmarking best practices in the implementation and review of risk management processes and study of HAZOPS and HAZANS; legislative requirements; Australian/New Zealand and ISO Standards; problem solving and decision making techniques; emergency management concepts and principles; techniques for the prioritisation and evaluation of risk management systems; organisation policy and procedures; emergency management concepts, principles and guidelines, management principles and practices.
Knowledge of the chemical and physical behaviour of natural and liquefied petroleum gas, including hazards in production, storage, handling, transport, transmission and distribution.
The ability to:
Analyse hazards; analyse and prioritise risk; conduct skills needs analysis; define problems; identify stakeholders; negotiate with stakeholders; apply risk management principles; use emergency risk modelling processes to estimate risk; define and anticipate implementation barriers; establish communication networks; negotiate with client groups and stakeholders; review guidelines, action plans and strategies for implementation; use information technologies to communicate information technologies to communicate information; resolve conflicts; conduct reviews of risk management systems; coordinate and monitor emergency activities and personnel; coordinate and monitor appliance tests, manage personnel and resources.