This competency covers the outcomes required to effectively measure current resource use and carry out improvements including those reducing negative environmental impacts of work practices. This unit is based on the sustainability guideline standard GCSSUS01A Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices.

The competency covers the ability to identify and implement actions to achieve workplace targets and to suggest improvements. This unit applies to all employees who may work either individually or as part of a team. This unit does not cover maximisation of process/equipment efficiencies undertaken as part of the normal work role, which is covered in the relevant unit of competency.

This unit covers the co-ordination of the shutdown and restarting of a production process in a safe and efficient manner due to a planned or an unplanned shutdown or emergency situation. It does not apply to individual plant operators shutting down individual production units or following directions during a shutdown, as this is included in the normal unit of competency for operating that production unit.

This unit covers the application of in depth knowledge of process and plant to the formulation, running and completion of a project for a new facility or expansion. The senior technician provides operational experience and advice to all facets of the project.

This competency covers the application of a knowledge of energy transfer and energy balance principles to the design and use of processing equipment.

This competency covers management of utilities used by a whole site or group of plants with a view to improving the efficiency of usage.

This unit covers the strategic management functions required to develop and establish incident response preparedness and response systems. Using the results of hazard analyses as a starting point, a person would establish an interactive process and manage a collaborative effort which raises the ability of the organisation to respond to an incident.

This unit covers the competencies required by a person to oversee and coordinate all welfare support activities in response to an incident. It involves setting up the necessary logistics and ensuring that work is carried out in accordance with legislation, company welfare program and associated procedures.

This competency covers the skills and knowledge that are required to contribute to the preparation and presenting of a safety case in accordance with the OHS legislation. The safety case must specify the safety management system followed or to be followed in relation to all hazards in a major hazard facility. The worker is expected to work as part of the team that is made up of senior management, engineers, technical and safety specialists.

n a typical scenario the person in charge of a facility undertakes the management, coordination and response to emergency situations within the facility. Note: This unit was formerly PMAOHS410 but has been raised to a higher level given the responsibilities of the role.

This competency covers the analysis of the performance, and performance verification, of existing equipment.

This competency covers the decommissioning of an existing plant/pipeline or major plant area, and its associated equipment. Decommissioning refers to the removal from service of plant/pipeline and equipment and its storage/mothballing' or disposal.

This competency covers minimising waste and environmental threats from a plant and/or a process. It covers all resources used and products made by the plant, and is performed by more experienced operators who might be expected to develop and implement improvements to processes within the plant. This unit may be performed individually or as part of a team. This competency also applies to capital projects, as well as improvements brought about by changes in work practices and procedures

This unit of competency covers the ability to obtain a range of samples that are representative of the source material (raw ingredients, product in process, final product) and to prepare the samples for testing. All sampling activities are to be in accordance with a defined sampling plan. This unit does not cover the subsequent testing of the samples.

This competency covers the issuing and auditing of any and all permits across multiple plant areas or an entire site. It is typically undertaken by a senior process technician. This may be a routine job, a role in part of a job or a temporary role in a shut down or similar.

This unit specifies the competence required to plan and organise the assessment process in a competency-based assessment system.

This unit specifies the competence required to participate in an assessment validation process.

This unit covers the knowledge and skills required to facilitate continuous improvement (kaizen) in an organisation.

This unit covers the knowledge and skills needed to ensure that the gains which have been made by using improved methods, processes and equipment are sustained as the new base line/standard to the team's area of work and so prevent regression to former practices, or digression to less efficient practices.

This unit covers the competency to assess the extent to which a facility is prepared to respond to an incident. This could apply to all of the realistically potential incidents which might occur to an organization, including those under its safety case. The person undertaking the audit would typically respond to the incident manager.

This unit addresses the competence required to conduct and assess incident exercises. The person would be engaged in the construction of scenarios that approximate incident situations and exercises in dealing with those incidents.

On completion of this unit, the worker will be able to identify hazards and operability problems and then analyse them by hazard analysis techniques to assess risk.