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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Interpret safe work practices
  2. Interpret reporting procedures for workplace hazards
  3. Interpret emergency procedures

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.

Requirements for conduct of safe work include:

Applying general duty of care under WHS legislation and common law

Fluid and gas high and low pressure systems, including fluid handling (for example, hydraulic fluids, lubricants, compressed air, nitrogen and oxygen)

Fuelling/defuelling and working on fuel systems

Using and handling chemicals, including solvents and battery acids

Electrical systems, outlets and leads

Noise hazard areas and aircraft safety zones

Aircraft handling, towing, jacking, ground equipment operation and signage

Personal protection

Housekeeping and cleaning, waste disposal and foreign object damage (FOD) prevention practices and procedures

Confined space entry (where applicable to the enterprise)

Aircraft strobe lighting (where applicable to the enterprise)

Ionising and non-ionising radiation equipment (where applicable to the enterprise)

Relevant regulatory and enterprise policies and procedures are found in:

Commonwealth, State and Territory WHS Acts, regulations and codes of practice, including regulations and codes of practice relating to hazards present in the workplace or industry

Organisational safety manuals that specify provisions relating to roles and responsibilities of health and safety representatives and/or WHS committees and provisions relating to WHS issue resolution

Maintenance organisation manuals

Procedures manuals

Work instructions

Relevant Defence instructions

Civil Aviation Safety Regulations (CASRs)

Personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements are found in:

Material safety data sheets (MSDS)

Safety manuals

Procedures manuals

Maintenance manuals

Work instructions

Relevant Defence instructions

Workplace hazard identification includes:

Checking equipment or the work area before work commences and during work

Workplace inspections

Housekeeping

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria under the specified conditions of assessment, and must include:

correctly interpreting WHS regulations, instructions and procedures relevant to the requirements for conduct of safe work listed in the Range of Conditions

recognising and adhering to aerospace industry signage, including aircraft systems plumbing markings

recognising and reporting to designated personnel hazardous situations in the workplace

risk assessment and control

selecting appropriate PPE for the maintenance activity being undertaken

correct interpretation of enterprise and regulatory emergency procedures

correct identification and operation of enterprise/industry-specific workplace emergency equipment.

This unit must be related in its assessment and application to all other units. The relationship between general workplace WHS requirements, as included in enterprise procedures, and the relevant federal and/or state and territory legislation must be clearly linked.

Evidence of knowledge and skills associated with the application of WHS standards is required to supplement evidence of ability to interpret and apply specific safe practices in the workplace.

Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of:

the applicable sources of WHS requirements and procedures and their application in requirements for conduct of safe work as listed in the Range of Conditions

how to recognise and report hazardous situations in the workplace

methods of risk assessment and control

the preferred order of ways to control risks (known as the hierarchy of control)

work operations to control risks, e.g. permit to work systems, such as confined space entry and isolation procedures

how to determine requirements for PPE associated with maintenance activities

the correct selection and use of workplace emergency equipment

action to be taken in emergency situations.