Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan and prepare for explosives development
- Identify, clarify and incorporate into the plan constraints on development
- Conduct research and analysis on explosives requirements and specifications
- Prepare and review development plan
- Identify, calculate, and apply net explosive quantities and compatibility throughout the operation
- Monitor and maintain environmental conditions
- Develop unique explosives
- Produce a sample of unique explosives in accordance with specifications
- Incorporate modifications or alterations into development processes based on validation results
- Conduct qualitative analysis
- Compare data with specifications, standards, charts, knowledge/experience, tables, and spectra in order to confirm explosive properties
- Perform tests or analyses efficiently and within the required timeframe
- Conduct quantitative analysis
- Use available computer technology to control instruments or acquire/translate/convert data to optimise test accuracy
- Check samples and analyses when non-standard results are obtained
- Complete tests or analyses within the required timeframe
- Establish compliance and compatibility with requirements
- Provide unique explosives to client in accordance with requirements
- Complete supporting documentation on the development of unique explosives