Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine applicable legal framework
- Identify and access current legislation, regulations, organisational procedures, standards and codes of practice affecting the workplace, industry, occupation or client
- Determine legal accountability obligations in relation to workplace, industry, occupation or client
- Identify consequences of non-compliance with legislation, regulations, organisational procedures, standards and codes of practice
- Research, interpret and apply appropriate legislation
- Promote compliance with relevant legislation
- Access current information about the range of legislation and other legally binding policies and protocols relating to own work
- Clarify compliance requirements to confirm understanding and ensure consistency of interpretation and application
- Obtain advice to assist in applying relevant legislation to own work and identifying compliance requirements
- Identify areas of uncertainty in own work related to compliance requirements and take action to clarify issues
- Identify possible implications of non-compliance and use these to guide own work practices
- Assess situations which may potentially present legal problems and issues
- Identify and document details of suspected or actual incidences of illegal conduct by self or others in the workplace
- Contribute to ongoing monitoring and compliance with legal framework
- Ensure that work is undertaken in a legally compliant manner
- Recognise limits of own expertise, legal accountability obligations and access appropriate sources of expertise as required
- Assess conduct of self and others in the workplace against specific components of the legal framework applicable to the workplace
- Take appropriate actions to resolve or report illegal conduct, as required by applicable legislation, regulations, organisational procedures, standards and codes of practice