SITXCRI003 — Respond to a customer in crisis
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What an assessment for SITXCRI003 must cover
85 assessable components: 4 elements (20 performance criteria), 11 performance evidence and 46 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 8 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 Identify and acknowledge the crisis.
- 1.1Determine scope and severity of customer crisis.
- 1.2Consider impacts on customer ability to continue in service participation.
- 1.3Assess impacts of crisis on other customers.
- 1.4Access and interpret information relevant to crisis.
- 1.5Acknowledge the incident as a customer crisis and communicate details to key people.
2 Provide customer crisis care.
- 2.1Identify symptoms of customer trauma.
- 2.2Monitor and document severity of customer trauma.
- 2.3Communicate with affected customer in line with organisational customer care, and communication and confidentiality standards.
- 2.4Provide recommendations to customer in a manner consistent with customer care standards.
3 Organise services to assist customer.
- 3.1Develop an action plan to manage the crisis.
- 3.2Promptly identify and access sources of assistance.
- 3.3Assist the customer to access service providers.
- 3.4Minimise disruption to other customers and maintain their services.
- 3.5Organise operational services to assist customer in crisis.
- 3.6Involve key people in managing customer crisis and integrate their perspectives.
- 3.7Provide explicit details of progress with, and final confirmations of, operational services to customer and other key people.
4 Evaluate and debrief customer crisis management.
- 4.1Evaluate crisis management process to determine effectiveness of response.
- 4.2Debrief and complete all reports.
- 4.3Provide recommendations for improvements to future crisis management practices.
- 4.4Seek assistance to cope with own or colleagues’ personal trauma experienced during crisis.
Performance evidence
- respond with customer crisis care to at least three different customer crises
- identify ramifications of each of the above customer crises through:
- discussions with affected customer and their friends, family or travelling companions
- where available and appropriate, related reports from:
- medical and emergency services
- police
- staff, contractors and suppliers
- organise the following operational services where required to assist the above affected customers in line with availability of assistance, advice and support and organisational customer care, communication and confidentiality standards:
- accommodation
- cancellation of forward travel and tourism services
- flights and ticketing to repatriate customers.
Knowledge evidence
- common customer crisis situations relevant to the tourism, travel, hospitality and event sectors:
- accident, assault or mugging
- family crisis and need for repatriation
- major injury or illness
- natural death, accidental death or suicide
- incident resulting in psychological trauma
- key symptoms of trauma
- sources of medical and counselling assistance
- communication techniques for supporting and reassuring customers
- key people with whom to communicate in a customer crisis situation:
- colleagues:
- managers
- operational staff
- supervisors
- family members
- personnel in the controlling office:
- event management organisation
- inbound tour operator
- outbound tour wholesaler
- professional conference organiser
- travel agency
- tour operator
- personnel from suppliers on an extended tour
- travel insurance provider personnel
- travelling companions
- professional standards in crisis care communications
- operational services used to manage customer service and repatriation arrangements
- role of key external people and organisations in managing a customer crisis
- recommendations relating to customer crisis situations:
- cancel the remainder of touring arrangements and return home
- contact travel insurance provider
- rebook a replacement holiday
- report incident to the police
- seek medical assistance
- seek professional counselling
- policies and processes to be followed for repatriation of bodies for:
- airlines
- consulates
- funeral directors
- high commissions
- travel insurance companies
- formats for and inclusions of incident reports
- organisational policies and procedures:
- roles and responsibilities of key staff members
- procedures for reporting and managing customer incidents
- procedures for reviewing and debriefing customer crisis management.
Foundation skills
- Reading skills: comprehend information and reports on customer crisis and service arrangements.
- Writing skills: document succinct action plans and accurate and complex crisis management reports.
- Oral communication skills: discuss details of customer crisis with key internal and external people.
- Numeracy skills: calculate immediate costs of service provision to the customer.
- Learning skills: research sources of assistance for the customer.
- Problem-solving skills: evaluate the severity of the impact of the crisis on the customer.
- Initiative and enterprise skills: provide sympathetic and sensitive support to the customer.
- Self-management skills: take responsibility for managing a customer in crisis.
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Questions about assessing SITXCRI003
What does an assessment tool for SITXCRI003 need to cover?
To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for SITXCRI003 needs to address all 85 unit components: 4 elements with 20 performance criteria, 11 performance evidence requirements, 46 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.
How does Auditori generate an assessment tool for SITXCRI003?
Auditori pulls the current release of SITXCRI003 from training.gov.au and generates a complete package: candidate assessment, assessor guide with model answers and observation criteria, and a coverage matrix mapping every component. A suitably qualified person then reviews and approves the draft in a built-in workflow — consistent with ASQA's guidance on AI use in VET — before export as branded PDF and editable Word.
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