Course Title: Apply occupational health and safety procedures at supervisor level in aviation maintenance

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5241 Diploma of Aviation Maintenance Management (Mechanical)

Course Title: Apply occupational health and safety procedures at supervisor level in aviation maintenance

Portfolio: SEH Portfolio Office

Nominal Hours: 40

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

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Course Contact: Program Manager

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4468

Course Contact Email: engineering-tafe@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

In this competency, students are required to implement and monitor the organisation’s health and safety policies, procedures and programs in aviation maintenance work areas to achieve and maintain occupational health and safety standards (OH&S). The unit is based on the National Guidelines for integrating OH&S competencies into national industry competency standards (NOHSC: 7025, 1998) and applies to the supervision of all aviation maintenance activities.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Nil.

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

MEA116A Apply occupational health and safety procedures at supervisor level in aviation maintenance

Elements:

1. Provide information to the work group about occupational health and safety and the organisation's occupational health and safety policies, procedures and programs. 2. Implement and monitor participative arrangements for the management of occupational health and safety. 3. Implement and monitor the organisation's procedures for identifying hazards and assessing risks. 4. Implement and monitor the organisation's procedures for dealing with hazardous events. 5. Implement the organisation's procedures for dealing with hazardous events. 6. Implement and monitor the organisation's procedures for providing occupational health and safety training. 7. Implement and monitor the organisation's procedures for maintaining occupational health and safety records.

Learning Outcomes

Overview of Assessment

A person who demonstrates competency in this unit must be able to apply OH&S Acts, regulations, codes of practice and enterprise OH&S procedures during the supervision of aviation maintenance activities.
Evidence must include observation in the workplace as well as off-the job techniques such as interviews and simulations. Conditions for simulations should accurately simulate the range of circumstances (especially with regard to a realistic range of emergencies and hazardous events) that the individual could be expected to deal with in the workplace and allow for discussion.