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Elements and Performance Criteria
- Verify noise data
- Confirm scope of noise management activities with supervisor
- Read current noise monitoring plan to identify objectives, known issues, specified management activities and required changes
- Read and review previous noise monitoring records and reports
- Confirm that noise monitoring sites, sampling and measurement methods, instrumentation and workplace procedures are in accordance with standards and guidelines
- Clarify own scope of responsibility for achieving outcomes and the roles of key personnel
- Identify resources available to conduct noise management activities
- Plan noise management activities
- Develop checklists and clear work instructions to enable personnel to perform assigned tasks efficiently and with minimal errors
- Check that personnel are competent to undertake their assigned tasks
- Check noise monitoring equipment is regularly calibrated and maintained and that adequate stocks of consumables are available
- Conduct, or arrange for, regular site inspections to monitor the effectiveness of noise control and reduction actions
- Advise relevant personnel when specified noise control and reduction actions are not being implemented effectively
- Conduct, or arrange for, additional monitoring and inspections after atypical events, legitimate complaints or government requests
- Confirm that technical records provide sufficient information to ensure traceability for the monitoring activities
- Read and compare monitoring data with expected values and identify outliers
- Read and interpret data records to identify gaps and to check the integrity of data entry, transfers, alterations and calculations
- Notify manager when data is incomplete, or contains significant errors, and clarify what action to take
- Determine if results are acceptable and within expectation
- Check the reliability of results by examining data and results from repeat measurements or other monitoring sites
- Assess the significance of documented observations of atypical environmental or meteorological conditions
- Check adjusted data and calculations to ensure there are no errors
- Check that estimations of uncertainty are reasonable and consistent with the relevant standard
- Report results that meet workplace data quality standards and are consistent with expectations
- Investigate and rectify unexpected or unacceptable results
- Establish whether human, environmental and meteorological factors could have affected the reliability of results
- Check for obvious errors in measurement positions and techniques
- Report unexpected results that meet workplace data quality standards
- Identify root causes of unacceptable results and preventative or corrective actions
- Report investigation outcomes and recommendations for improvements in accordance with workplace procedures
- Seek manager’s advice when challenges are beyond own technical competence or when input from environmental specialists may be required
- Keep management informed about noise performance
- Report opportunities and recommendations for improvements in noise monitoring or management in accordance with workplace procedures
- Maintain noise records
- Store noise records in accordance with workplace procedures
- Regularly review noise records to identify significant trends and impacts
- Identify problems with the maintenance and security of noise records and resolve them promptly
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