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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Identify legislative and regulatory requirements for reporting notifiable occurrence
  2. Complete and submit notifiable occurrence documentation
  3. Contribute to investigating a notifiable occurrence

Required Skills

This section describes the knowledge and skills required for this unit

Required knowledge

Basic information and evidence collection and preservation techniques for notifiable occurrences

Principles of just culture as applied to investigating notifiable occurrences

Relevant legislation regulations permit and licence requirements relating to rail safety management

Requirements for investigating and reporting notifiable occurrences

Requirements of organisational safety management system and incident management plans

Required skills

Communicate effectively with others verbally and in writing when investigating and reporting notifiable occurrences

Complete occurrence reports

Interpret and follow operational instructions and prioritise work

Read and interpret instructions procedures and information relevant to notifiable occurrences

Work collaboratively with others when responding to notifiable occurrences

Evidence Required

The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria required knowledge and skills the range statement and the assessment guidelines for this Training Package

Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit

The evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria of this unit and include demonstration of applying

the required knowledge and skills

relevant legislation and workplace procedures

other relevant aspects of the range statement

Assessment must include exercises which demonstrate competent performance of the following in a range of situations

identifying notifiable occurrence legislative and regulatory requirements

completing a notification form for an identified notifiable occurrence

identifying a top event from a notifiable occurrence

completing a report on a notifiable occurrence

Context of and specific resources for assessment

Performance is demonstrated consistently over a period of time and in a suitable range of contexts

Resources for assessment include

a range of relevant exercises case studies andor other simulated practical and knowledge assessment andor

access to an appropriate range of relevant operational situations in the workplace

In both real and simulated environments access is required to

relevant and appropriate materials and equipment and

applicable documentation including workplace procedures regulations codes of practice and operation manuals

Method of assessment

As a minimum assessment of knowledge must be conducted through appropriate writtenoral tests

Practical assessment must occur

through activities in an appropriately simulated environment andor

in an appropriate range of situations in the workplace


Range Statement

The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance.

Notifiable rail safety occurrences may include:

derailments

collisions

level crossing occurrences

breaches of safeworking

signals passed at danger (SPAD)

load irregularity

dangerous goods occurrence

rail network security occurrence

wrong side failures

Documentation may include:

occurrence classification – guideline one (OC-G1)

notifiable occurrence report

notification form

investigation report

Organisational procedures may include:

safety management system

incident management plans

risk management procedures

emergency management plans

Multiple agencies may include:

emergency services

regulator

operators

maintainers

rail infrastructure managers

coroner

Relevant personnel may be:

supervisors and/or managers

customers

official representatives

contractors

relevant authorities

employees

regulators

Top event is:

the event with the greatest adverse outcome – expressed in terms of causalities, damage or accident potential

Applicable regulations and legislation may include:

legislated rail safety requirements including acts and regulations from each applicable state and/or territory together with any nationally approved compliance codes and/or guidelines

relevant state/territory occupational health and safety (OH&S) and environmental protection legislation

privacy regulations

data protection regulations