Elements and Performance Criteria

Stream: Production Plant
Field: Operations
Equivalencies: N/A
Appropriate personnel may include project engineers and leaders, maintenance personnel, operations personnel, internal and external specialist services personnel, line management, contractors and standing permit to work and/or safety committees
Documentation may include occupational health and safety and environmental legislation, industry standards, enterprise safety and/or permit to work rules, enterprise and site procedures, enterprise permit to work documentation/form(s), operation and maintenance manuals, plant drawings and schematics and computer based software packages
Resources may include approved documentation/form(s), manpower, isolation equipment (locking devices, signs etc) and personal or mainframe computers
Permit to work may include any approved documentation/form(s) controlled by the safety rules or permit to work procedures of the candidates enterprise
Auditing may include quantity, quality and suitability of permits and isolation procedures
Incidents may refer to permit to work system breaches

Critical aspects of evidence
The knowledge and application of relevant sections of: Occupational, health and safety legislation; Statutory legislation; Enterprise/site safety procedures; Enterprise/site emergency procedures
Implementing permit to work system
Coordinating permit to work system
Managing permit to work system
Context of assessment
Competency Standards should be assessed on site or in a simulated work environment under the normal range of workplace conditions
Assessment of this unit should also confirm that other competencies required to underpin this unit are satisfied
Assessment of this unit will be supported with documentary evidence, by means of endorsement stating type and application of equipment operated
Interdependent assessment of unit
Nil
Knowledge and Skills
A knowledge of:
Relevant occupational health and safety regulations; Relevant statutory legislation; Relevant enterprise/site safety procedures; Enterprise/site emergency procedures and techniques; Plant status; Relevant plant and equipment, its location and operating parameters; Environmental legislation; Enterprise recording procedures; Computers and software; Auditing procedures and techniques; Investigation and evaluating techniques; Development and management techniques; Communication principles; Human resources and management principles; Introduction to power production plant; Typical arrangements of power production plant; Thermodynamics; Properties of matter; Power plant cycle; General responsibilities for power production plant operations; Control of a boiler; Basic turbine construction and operating principles; Turbine operations; Electrical principles; Transformers; AC generators; Alternators, excitors and hydrogen systems; Switchgear; Electrical protection; Schematic diagrams; Auxiliary supply systems; High voltage systems; High voltage switching procedures; Safe operating principles
The ability to:
Apply relevant occupational health and safety regulations; Apply relevant statutory legislation; Apply relevant enterprise/site safety procedures; Apply enterprise/site emergency procedures and techniques; Locate relevant plant and equipment; Identify plant status; Plan and prioritise work; Apply planning principles and techniques; Communicate effectively; Apply data analysis techniques and tools; Develop and manage permit to work systems; Access and use diagrams, drawings and symbols; Manage human resources.