Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify proposed benefits/ outcomes of new product/ process
- Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
- Confirm deliverables expected by customer
- Confirm benefits expected by organisation
- Identify any existing products with similar expectations
- Note any relevant issues with existing similar products
- Sketch a process map/flow chart of proposed process
- Draw process map/flow chart of proposed process
- Annotate key resources, including materials, labour, time and money to map/flow chart
- Examine map/flow chart for possible improvements and redraw, as appropriate
- Compare proposed process with current standard processes
- Identify areas of improvement in the existing similar process
- Identify hazards and appropriate hazard controls
- Develop procedures for new/modified steps
- Draft procedures for new product/ process
- Observe and record prototype
- Draft procedures from successful prototype steps in appropriate format
- Evaluate draft procedures
- Compare production to procedures
- Compare outcomes with expectations
- Identify any required changes and take appropriate action
- Draft new procedures and obtain authorisation
- Obtain authorisation of new procedures, as required
- Standardise procedures
- Complete any required documentation/reporting according to SOPs