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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Interpret proactive maintenance strategy
   • Analyse proactive maintenance strategy.
   • Identify areas which may conflict with hazard or operations requirements.
   • Analyse data arising from incident reports (and similar) for maintenance implications.
   • Compile hazard control implications for proactive maintenance strategy.
2. Interpret hazard information
   • Analyse hazard and operability studies (HAZOP) (or similar) data for maintenance implications.
   • Analyse safety case (or similar) data for maintenance implications.
   • Compile hazard control implications for proactive maintenance strategy.
3. Identify shutdown/ turnaround cycle requirements
   • Determine when the next shutdown is due and the expected time between shutdowns.
   • Identify plant items/maintenance activities which can only be completed during a shutdown.
   • Identify critical conditions which must not be breached in order to maintain plant reliability until shutdown.
   • Compile shutdown cycle requirements for proactive maintenance strategy.
4. Identify maintenance requirements of ancillary equipment
   • Identify proactive maintenance requirements of ancillary equipment.
   • Identify maintenance which can only be done when the plant is shut down.
   • Compile ancillary equipment requirements for proactive maintenance strategy.
5. Adapt proactive maintenance strategy
   • Compare identified requirements to the proactive maintenance strategy.
   • Negotiate a proactive maintenance strategy which meets these requirements.
   • Involve team members in relating identified problems and opportunities for improvement to the maintenance strategy, and involve them in developing any required changes to ensure awareness, learning and commitment.
   • Monitor the implementation of the strategy to ensure the identified requirements are met.
   • Make required adjustments and arrange for strategy review.

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.
Competitive systems and practices include one or more of:	lean operations agile operations preventative and predictive maintenance approaches statistical process control systems, including six sigma and three sigma Just in Time (JIT), kanban and other pull-related operations control systems supply, value, and demand chain monitoring and analysis 5S continuous improvement (kaizen) breakthrough improvement (kaizen blitz) cause/effect diagrams overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) takt time process mapping problem solving run charts standard procedures current reality tree.
Ancillary equipment includes one or more of:	boilers utilities plants waste treatment and hazard control equipment (e.g. fire ring mains, fire monitors, steam curtains, gas (or other loss of containment) monitors, blast protection and flare stacks).

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include the ability, for one (1) or more continuous manufacturing processes/areas, to:

analyse hazards and risks and determine implications for proactive maintenance strategies

consider a variety of proactive maintenance strategies for suitability to an organisation

consult operators, maintenance, management and other stakeholders in decisions on proactive maintenance strategies

monitor implementation of selected proactive maintenance strategies and make appropriate adjustments.

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Knowledge Evidence

Must provide evidence that demonstrates sufficient knowledge to interact with relevant personnel and be able to adapt a proactive maintenance strategy, including knowledge of:

continuous manufacturing equipment and products of the organisation

start-up, shutdown and isolation considerations for the organisation

skills required by operators and maintenance personnel to achieve effective proactive maintenance strategy implementation

characteristics and strengths of different types of strategies, techniques and tools

holistic costs of different strategies combining cost of maintenance with costs of lost production, sales, and so on, as relevant to the organisation

business goals sufficient to match the strategy to the business needs

strategic thinking and its application to proactive maintenance

principles of process equipment and how to improve its reliability

resources required and how to obtain them.

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