MEACOM0027Develop and manage maintenance error management programs

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26 assessable components: 2 elements (15 performance criteria), 2 performance evidence and 6 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 3 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Develop a maintenance error management program

  • 1.1State aims and objectives of aviation maintenance error management program and structure the program according to regulatory requirements
  • 1.2Establish aviation maintenance error management program guidelines that encourage open and blame-free reporting of maintenance errors that are not due to negligence
  • 1.3State disciplinary boundaries to apply in the event of negligence
  • 1.4Specify an aviation maintenance error investigation procedure including, where applicable, compliance with regulatory procedures for reporting significant safety issues related to maintenance errors
  • 1.5Specify an aviation maintenance strategy and procedure for developing and delivering staff training programs relating to maintenance error management that meet requirements
  • 1.6Include reference to aviation maintenance error management program in applicable organisational policies and procedures
  • 1.7Provide feedback on program results to personnel, and review analysis of accumulated data to identify maintenance error trends

2 Manage a maintenance error management program

  • 2.1Review reported events to determine if they should be investigated within the procedures of the maintenance error management program
  • 2.2Report significant safety issues related to aviation maintenance errors to CASA and/or the Air Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB)
  • 2.3Investigate events applicable to the aviation maintenance error management program according to program procedures
  • 2.4Identify and address human factors that potentially affected job performance
  • 2.5Analyse investigation results to determine required action and minimise probability of event recurrence
  • 2.6Take required action and provide feedback to designated personnel
  • 2.7Review event and resultant action to determine information to be forwarded to bodies external to the organisation
  • 2.8Review accumulated data according to program procedures to determine and monitor maintenance error trends

Performance evidence

  • develop a maintenance error management program for an aircraft or aeronautical product, aimed at reducing human error rates in an aviation maintenance organisation, addressing the investigation of events and safety issues, and reviewing accumulated data
  • manage the developed program and respond to identified maintenance errors and significant safety issues.

Knowledge evidence

  • regulatory requirements and associated guidelines relating to the maintenance error management program, including: - Civil Aviation Safety Regulations (CASRs), manuals of standards and associated Acceptable Means of Compliance and Guidance Material (AMC/GM) - regulatory procedures for reporting significant safety issues, including: - major defect report (MDR) - service difficulty report (SDR) - confidential aviation incident report (CAIR) - organisational policies and procedures relating to the maintenance error management program, including: - aviation maintenance organisation expositions - quality manuals - safety manuals - procedures manuals - work instructions
  • human factors with the potential to affect maintenance error management
  • key features of investigative processes
  • methodology for trend analysis
  • procedures for specifying training requirements
  • equity, fraud and ethics requirements set out in organisational code of conduct specific to the work described in the performance evidence.

Foundation skills

  • Reading: Reading skills to interpret maintenance information and procedures.
  • Numeracy: Numeracy skills to interpret technical information relating to errors and error maintenance program data.
  • Writing and oral communication: Writing and oral communication skills to develop and report on maintenance error management programs.

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