UEERE0015 - Implement and monitor energy sector environmental and sustainable policies and procedures

Unit code: UEERE0015 | Study level: TAFE

Nominal hours

Location

Sunshine

Prerequisites

N/A

Overview

This unit involves the skills and knowledge required to implement and monitor energy sector environmental and sustainable policies and procedures.It includes preparing, planning, implementing, monitoring and completing environmentally sustainable work practice management policies and procedures. It also includes collecting, interpreting and applying environmental management information, identifying environmental impacts and assessing risks.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, incl the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.
Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
* applying relevant work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) requirements, including using risk control measures
* applying sustainable energy practices
* dealing with unplanned events/situations in accordance with workplace procedures in a manner that minimises risk to personnel and equipment
* implementing and monitoring participative arrangements for the management of environmentally sustainable work practice
* implementing and monitoring the procedures for environmentally sustainable work practice
* implementing and monitoring the procedures for identifying hazards, assessing risks and controlling risks
* implementing and monitoring the procedures for maintaining environmentally sustainable work practice records
* implementing and reviewing sustainable energy procedures
* planning, implementing and monitoring environmentally sustainable work procedures
* providing environmentally sustainable work practice information to the work group.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
* environmentally sustainable work principles, including:
* relevant environmental legislation
* sustainable practice
* effects of neglecting sustainable practice
* benefits of sustainable initiatives
* techniques for reducing the use of carbon-based energy sources and hence greenhouse gas emissions
* domestic, commercial and industrial strategies
* trade-related technologies and methods
* renewable energy (RE) technologies
* energy efficient retrofits
* implementing and monitoring, including:
* principles and practice of effective sustainable practice management
* workplace sustainable work practice non-compliance, range and selection of control measures
* organisational systems and policies and procedures
* impact of characteristics and composition of the workforce on sustainable practice management
* sustainable work practice management to other organisational management policies, procedures and systems.
* analysis of work environment and sustainable work practice interventions
* analysis of relevant workplace data
* ability to assess resources needed for risk control
* relevant manufacturer specifications
* relevant job safety assessments or risk mitigation processes
* relevant WHS/OHS legislated requirements
* relevant workplace documentation
* relevant workplace policies and procedures.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.