Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to respond to internal and external requests for environmental information.
This unit applies to environmental technicians and similar roles who are required to work within communication and approval procedures, confirm information needs, source and verify information, write responses and maintain records. Typically, the information will be drawn from environmental management plans, work activities, sampling or monitoring data, test results and trend analysis.
This unit applies in any organisation.
No licensing or certification requirements exist at the time of publication. Relevant legislation, industry standards and codes of practice within Australia must be applied.

What You'll Learn

Assessment Requirements

Performance Evidence

There must be evidence the candidate has completed the tasks outlined in the elements and performance criteria of this unit, and demonstrated the ability to:
• process and respond to at least 2 requests for environmental information.

Knowledge Evidence

There must be evidence the candidate has knowledge of:
• common methods to improve clarity of writing, including:
• checking for alternative meanings of words and sentences
• minimal use of formal and technical language
• removing repetitive or unnecessary words and jargon
• use of short sentences
• use of dot points
• use of headings
• sources of environmental information
• environmental protection and management terminology, concepts and principles
• site, project and program characteristics and the nature of activities
• environmental legislative and regulatory requirements relevant to site, project or program within scope of responsibility
• workplace environmental management plans, procedures, control measures and management actions for site, project or program within scope of responsibility
• environmental management values, environmental issues, risks and impacts for site, project or program
• record keeping procedures
• communication and approval procedures relevant to release of environmental information.

Assessment Conditions

Skills must have been demonstrated in the workplace or in a simulated environment that reflects workplace conditions and contingencies. The following conditions must be met for this unit:
• use of suitable facilities, equipment and resources, including:
• site/project history
• use of computers and email
• environmental management plan and related procedures and data
• modelling of industry operating conditions, including:
• filing system and/or enterprise information management system.
Assessors must satisfy the NVR/AQTF mandatory competency requirements for assessors.

Foundation Skills

• {'skill': 'Foundation Skills', 'description': 'This section describes those language, literacy, numeracy and employment skills that are essential to performance but not explicit in the performance criteria.\n• Reading skills to interpret complex workplace documents and customer requests\n• Writing skills to draft and edit information to address specific questions and maintain records\n• Oral communication skills to liaise with customer, supervisor and technical experts\n• Numeracy skills to interpret and communicate environmental data.\nOther foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit.'}

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