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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Plan review or audit activities with manager or lead auditor
   • Read and interpret legislative and regulatory compliance requirements and workplace policies and procedures
2. Clarify review or audit objectives, scope risks, constraints and resources available
3. Clarify site, sections, work areas, functions and practices to be reviewed or audited
4. Confirm own role and responsibility for specific review or audit tasks
5. Plan the review or audit activities to minimise workplace disruption and ensure they can be safely conducted within agreed timeframes
6. Prepare for assigned review or audit activities
   • Gather and read background information relevant to site, sections, work areas, functions and practices to be reviewed or audited
7. Scrutinise the review or audit criteria, tools and evidence requirements to enhance own objectivity and attention to detail
8. Identify any technical and equipment requirements for review or audit and if support personnel are required
9. Inform all personnel involved and arrange meetings or appointments
10. Conduct assigned review or audit activities
    • Collect a representative sample of site documentation
11. Collect sufficient information from observations and interviews to provide reliable evidence of environmental performance
12. Work cooperatively with personnel to maximise their ownership of the review or audit and identify opportunities to improve environmental performance
13. Keep accurate records of observations and interview responses
14. Analyse information and evaluate performance
    • Analyse information to identify significant performance trends, patterns, gaps and areas of risk
15. Recognise instances of non-conformance and non-compliance and identify options for improving performance
16. Evaluate performance against specified benchmarks and identify evidence based corrective or preventative actions and improvement strategies
17. Provide recommendations that are supported by evidence based findings
18. Seek manager or lead auditor’s advice when issues or problems are beyond own scope of role or when input from environmental specialists may be required
19. Report review or audit results
    • Document results in accordance with standard and workplace procedures and compare with initial objectives
20. Confirm results with manager or lead auditor
21. Report results to relevant personnel for action in accordance with workplace procedures