Elements and Performance Criteria
- Manage on-site safety
- Access, interpret and apply site documentation and ensure the work activity is compliant
- Relay safety rules and regulations, legislation and specific site instructions to personnel
- Conduct equipment safety audits as required
- Identify and document in writing hazards
- Determine a range of preventative measures for potential hazards
- Communicate procedures for the use and wear of personal protective equipment and installed safety equipment to personnel
- Provide clear and concise instructions to others in emergency drills and their application
- Establish methods for contacting all necessary medical services
- Provide safety and/or equipment safety induction to new personnel and visitors
- Complete work health and safety records
- Communicate regularly with client, personnel, and other relevant parties
- Brief personnel and other relevant parties regularly on up to date scope of activities
- Maintain a good working relationship with landholder/client
- Honour confidentiality clauses in contract
- Communicate verbally and in writing progress, problems encountered/anticipated and results regularly to landholder/client/supervisor
- Maintain regular communication by radio/telephone or other means to report progress and/or request information or assistance
- Diagnose and solve routine and non-routine problems
- Confirm, by investigation, the existence and immediate effects/potential effects of the problem
- Identify a clear and accurate definition of the problem
- Identify, through analysis of information, the preferred options and formulate action plans
- Obtain additional equipment, contractors and/or advice as needed
- Outline contingency plans
- Organise alternative duties for personnel if problems cause hold-ups in production
- Implement the preferred option
- Control work program to ensure objectives are met
- Coordinate work of personnel
- Make all personnel aware of their roles and responsibilities in the work plan
- Set operational targets in consultation with personnel, and check at regular intervals
- Provide assistance when requested, to meet operational targets
- Acquire resources required to support changing work requirements
- Allocate workloads and required resources in accordance with modified work plans
- Communicate agreed time lines for tasks to personnel
- Maintain operating records
- Determine range of records, reports and their required frequency
- Keep daily written running records to facilitate reporting
- Complete written logs/records and/or shift reports
- Note variations to contract requirements on log and discuss with originator and management
- Complete required written reports and submit/distribute
- Take and record in writing accurate measurements