Assignment
Choose a specific activity or work procedure that is part of your normal working day or week and for which you have some responsibility. For example, you may be a supervisor in a hi-tech containerised nursery where the growth of seedlings needs to be monitored regularly. Or you may be responsible for a program where forest roads and tracks are being cleared and repaired after a storm event. Make sure that you have direct and substantial involvement in monitoring the activity.
Describe the methods you use to monitor this activity. How do you ensure the activity is being undertaken within set standards? Use a table format to record your answer. A model format is provided below to help you.
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Activity or procedure | Describe the activity or work procedure you have chosen for this exercise. |
External compliance requirements | List all Acts, Regulations, Australian Standards, Codes of Practice and other official documents that you use when you're monitoring the activity for compliance. |
Internal compliance requirements | List any safe operating procedures, work method statements, policies and procedures manuals or other internal documents that form part of your monitoring process for this activity. |
Monitoring methods | Name the methods you use to monitor the activity, and beside each one describe how it is used in the monitoring process and what information this particular method gives you. Your methods may include:
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Common problems | Describe at least two problems you need to be on the lookout for while you are monitoring this activity, and how you would:
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