Elements and Performance Criteria
- Confirm pre-competition requirements.
- Access and interpret sport-specific rules, regulations and performance standards to identify sport-specific competition requirements.
- Interpret participant competition registration information and check against sport-specific competition eligibility requirements to determine participant eligibility to participate.
- Check sport-specific competition environment, facilities and equipment to confirm competition requirements are met.
- Identify competition hazards, assess risks and incorporate risk control strategies to minimise competition safety risks.
- Conduct officiating.
- Monitor sport-specific competitions against sport-specific rules, regulations and performance standards to identify breaches.
- Make, communicate and action objective and fair officiating decisions according to sport-specific rules, regulations and performance standards.
- Work cooperatively to make team officiating decisions.
- Respond to participant reactions to officiating decisions according to organisational policies and procedures.
- Document sport-specific officiating outcomes according to organisational policies and procedures.
- Deal with disputes.
- Analyse disputes to identify the causes of conflict.
- Use conflict resolution techniques to handle conflict situations according to organisational policies and procedures.
- Identify situations where personal safety of others may be threatened and provide assistance according to organisational policies and procedures.
- Resolve disputes arising from competitions promptly according to organisational policies and procedures.
- Check decisions to confirm they are fair, equitable evidence based and adhere to principles of natural justice.
- Record outcomes of disputes according to organisational policies and procedures.
- Reflect on officiating practice.