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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Confirm scope of air quality management activities
   • Read and interpret legislative, regulatory and licensing requirements and approvals that apply to site or project or program
2. Read current air quality management plan to identify objectives, known issues, specified management activities and required changes
3. Read and review previous air quality records and reports
4. Confirm that site set-up, sampling methods, instrumentation and workplace procedures are in accordance with standards and guidelines
5. Clarify own scope of responsibility for achieving outcomes and the roles of key personnel
6. Identify resources available to conduct air quality management activities
7. Plan air quality management activities
   • Develop a consolidated schedule to ensure all activities can be conducted efficiently with the available resources
8. Develop checklists and clear work instructions to enable personnel to perform assigned tasks efficiently and with minimal errors
9. Check that personnel are competent to undertake their assigned tasks
10. Check equipment is regularly calibrated and maintained and that adequate stocks of consumables are available
11. Ensure air samples are handled in accordance with the sampling method and chain of custody requirements and dispatched promptly for analysis
12. Arrange for source emission testing according to licence requirements
13. Conduct, or arrange for, regular site inspections to monitor the effectiveness of air quality management actions
14. Advise relevant personnel when specified air quality management actions are not being implemented effectively
15. Conduct, or arrange for, additional monitoring and inspections after atypical events, legitimate complaints or government requests
16. Verify air quality data
    • Read and interpret job instructions, data and technical records in workplace information management system
17. Confirm that technical records provide sufficient information to ensure traceability and chain of custody for the monitoring activities
18. Read and compare data with expected values and identify outliers
19. Read and interpret data records to identify gaps and to check the integrity of data entry, transfers, alterations and calculations
20. Notify manager when data is incomplete or contains significant errors and clarify what action to take
21. Check results are acceptable and within expectation
    • Compare results with expected values and standards and identify significant differences or trends
22. Check the reliability of results by examining data or results from other monitoring stations or repeat measurements or tests of duplicate samples
23. Assess the significance of recorded atypical environmental or meteorological conditions
24. Check calculations to ensure there are no errors
25. Check that estimations of uncertainty are reasonable and consistent with the sampling method, standards and guidelines
26. Report results that meet workplace data quality standards and are consistent with expectations
27. Investigate and rectify unexpected or unacceptable results
    • Read and interpret records of pre-use checks and calibration performance to ensure that the sampling equipment, reagents, standards or monitoring and test instruments used meet specifications and workplace requirements
28. Establish whether human, environmental or meteorological factors could have affected the reliability of results
29. Check for obvious sources of interference that occurred during measurements or analysis of samples
30. Retrieve stored samples and assess whether they are atypical or contaminated
31. Arrange for control tests using the same or new samples to check unexpected results
32. Report unexpected results that meet workplace data quality standards
33. Identify root causes of unacceptable results and preventative or corrective actions
34. Report investigation outcomes and recommendations for improvements in accordance with workplace procedures
35. Seek manager’s advice when challenges are beyond own technical competence or when input from environmental specialists may be required
36. Keep management informed about air quality performance
    • Provide regular reports about air quality performance including instances of potential and actual non-conformance and incidents and the actions taken in each case
37. Report opportunities and recommendations for improvements in air quality monitoring or management in accordance with workplace procedures
38. Maintain air quality records
    • Write legible, accurate air quality records in accordance with workplace and legislative requirements
39. Store air quality records in accordance with workplace procedures
40. Regularly read and review air quality records to identify significant trends and impacts
41. Identify problems with the maintenance and security of air quality records and resolve them promptly

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