Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners

MSS027013 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Coordinate environmental management activities

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Issue Date: May 2024


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Unit of Competency MSS027013 - Coordinate environmental management activities
Description
Employability Skills
Learning Outcomes and Application This unit describes the skills and knowledge to coordinate environmental management activities at a site, or within a project, to ensure compliance with relevant legislation, regulations, permits and/or licences. Personnel are required to interpret and explain environmental management policies, plans and procedures to other personnel and apply them to a wide range of activities. This includes recognising potential and actual environmental impacts of current and planned work or recreational activities, implementing and monitoring appropriate preventative and corrective actions to minimise harm to the environment, coordinating response to incidents, liaising with the site personnel and stakeholders, and providing site or project reports. This unit applies to environmental site coordinators, environmental managers and environmental officers working in all industry sectors. No licensing or certification requirements exist at the time of publication. Relevant legislation, industry standards and codes of practice within Australia must be applied.Environmental monitoring and management activities are governed by relevant legislation, regulations and/or external accreditation requirements. Local requirements should be checked.
Duration and Setting X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting.
Prerequisites/co-requisites
Competency Field Management
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners Student Learning Resources Handouts
Activities 		Slides
PPT 		Assessment 1 Assessment 2 Assessment 3 Assessment 4
Elements of Competency Performance Criteria              
Element: Confirm environmental management responsibilities
  • Read and interpret legislative, regulatory and licensing requirements and approvals that apply to site or project
       
Element: Clarify scope of own role and the roles of other key personnel
       
Element: Identify resources available for site or project
       
Element: Develop and maintain positive relations with site personnel and stakeholders
  • Identify significant stakeholders and their concerns, issues, positions or attitudes about the site or project
       
Element: Participate in meetings and networks
       
Element: Use strategies to foster the trust and confidence of site personnel and stakeholder representatives
       
Element: Communicate workplace positions and requirements in a way that acknowledges concerns of personnel and stakeholders and promotes understanding
       
Element: Respond to requests for information or participation in stakeholder activities in accordance with workplace procedures
       
Element: Provide timely, authorised information using language, styles and formats that are readily understood
       
Element: Identify difficult situations and negotiate solutions by using a collaborative approach and harnessing cooperation
       
Element: Obtain regular feedback and use it to maintain and enhance positive relations
       
Element: Provide environmental management information and training
  • Use environmental management plans and recent incident reports to identify and review information and training needs of site personnel
       
Element: Access and develop information and training programs to meet the identified needs
       
Element: Provide accessible information and training programs to ensure that all site personnel understand their environmental obligations and responsibilities
       
Element: Confirm site personnel’s understanding of environmental management actions
       
Element: Monitor the effectiveness of information and training and adjust content, format and delivery strategies
       
Element: Assess environmental impacts and risks
  • Review scheduled activities well in advance to identify implications for environmental management
       
Element: Identify potential and actual events, risks and activities that may harm the environment
       
Element: Conduct inspections and in-situ measurements to quantify risks and impacts
       
Element: Report assessment of risks and impacts in accordance with workplace and legislative requirements
       
Element: Implement environmental monitoring and management plans
  • Conduct specified environmental monitoring and site inspections to check performance against environmental management requirements
       
Element: Ensure that workplace environmental monitoring instruments are fully functioning and maintained
       
Element: Conduct additional monitoring and inspections after atypical events, legitimate complaints or government requests to assess whether environmental management plan is operating effectively
       
Element: Examine results of in-situ measurements, laboratory analyses, inspections and audits to identify significant trends, non-conformance and incidents
       
Element: Respond to environmental non-conformances and incidents
  • Implement workplace procedures for responding to environmental non-conformance and incidents to ensure prompt control and remediation
       
Element: Investigate the causes of non-conformances and incidents within scope of responsibility and in accordance with workplace and legislative requirements
       
Element: Analyse findings to identify opportunities to re-design activities, work practices, environmental controls, information and training programs and management procedures
       
Element: Implement authorised corrective and preventative actions to prevent recurrence of non-conformance or incident and to reduce risks
       
Element: Record all recommendations, actions and outcomes in accordance with the workplace and legislative requirements
       
Element: Keep management informed about environmental performance
  • Provide regular reports about environmental performance, instances of potential or actual non-conformance and incidents and the actions taken in each case
       
Element: Report opportunities and recommendations for improvements
       
Element: Seek manager’s advice when challenges are beyond own scope of role or when input from environmental specialists may be required
       
Element: Maintain environmental records
  • Ensure all required records are legible, accurate and satisfy workplace and legislative requirements
       
Element: Store environmental records to enable easy access and review by authorised personnel according to workplace procedures
       
Element: Regularly read and assess environmental records to identify significant trends and impacts
       
Element: Identify any problems with the maintenance and security of records and resolve them promptly
       

Submission Requirements

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Assessment Tasks

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Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.

Observation Checklist

Tasks to be observed according to workplace/college/TAFE policy and procedures, relevant legislation and Codes of Practice Yes No Comments/feedback
Read and interpret legislative, regulatory and licensing requirements and approvals that apply to site or project 
 
 
Identify significant stakeholders and their concerns, issues, positions or attitudes about the site or project 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Use environmental management plans and recent incident reports to identify and review information and training needs of site personnel 
 
 
 
 
Review scheduled activities well in advance to identify implications for environmental management 
 
 
 
Conduct specified environmental monitoring and site inspections to check performance against environmental management requirements 
 
 
 
Implement workplace procedures for responding to environmental non-conformance and incidents to ensure prompt control and remediation 
 
 
 
 
Provide regular reports about environmental performance, instances of potential or actual non-conformance and incidents and the actions taken in each case 
 
 
Ensure all required records are legible, accurate and satisfy workplace and legislative requirements 
 
 
 

Forms

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