Elements and Performance Criteria

Stream: Production Plant
Field: Operations
Equivalencies: N/A
Safety standards may include relevant sections of occupational health and safety legislation, enterprise safety rules, relevant state and federal legislation and national standards for plant
Information and documentation sources may include verbal or written communications; enterprise safety rules documentation; enterprise operating instructions; dedicated computer equipment; enterprise/site standing and operating instructions; enterprise log books; manufacturer's operation and maintenance manuals; and equipment and alarm manuals
Communications may be by means of telephone, two way radio, pager, computers (electronic mail) and operating logs (written or verbal)
Appropriate personnel for consultation, give or receive direction may include supervisor/team leader or equivalent, power plant operations personnel or equivalent, technical and engineering officers or equivalent, maintenance staff, other operating staff or equivalent and system/network controllers
Type of scheduled outages may be distribution/network H.V. bus section, generation plant, major auxiliary plant, fuel supply, L.V. switchboards and transmissions
Consumers and key stake holders may include domestic customers, essential services, police, fire service, emergency services, local councils, corporate enterprises, industry, internal enterprise management, operators, controllers, maintenance personnel, contractors and independent power utilities
Notification may include television, radio, newspaper, mail, telephone, e-mail memos and notices
Documentation may include operations project file, records, reports, computers, memos, notification of requirement and work orders

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
Investigating and understanding implications of outage
Identifying and advising key stake holders
Identifying outage requirements
Creating outage plans
Context of assessment
Competency Standards should be assessed in the workplace or simulated workplace and under the normal range of workplace conditions
Assessment of this unit will be supported with documentary evidence, by means of endorsement stating type and work
Interdependent assessment of unit
Nil
Knowledge and Skills
A knowledge of:
Relevant occupational health & safety regulations; Relevant statutory legislation; Relevant enterprise/site safety procedures; Enterprise/site emergency procedures and techniques; Plant status; Environmental awareness; Relevant plant and equipment, it's location and operating parameters; Knowledge of system/s; Consumer requirements/ commitments; Contractual obligations; Essential consumers; Computations and use of statistics; Communications principles; Computers and software
The ability to:
Apply relevant occupational health & safety regulations; Apply relevant statutory legislation; Apply relevant enterprise/site safety procedures; Apply enterprise/site emergency procedures and techniques; Apply enterprise recording procedures; Identify plant status; Communicate effectively; Apply data analysis techniques and tools; Plan and prioritise work; Use diagrams, drawings, plans, maps and symbols; Draft interruption notices; Communicate with public and key stake holder.