TLIF0080Implement and monitor the safety duties of transport activities (Chain of Responsibility)

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What an assessment for TLIF0080 must cover

53 assessable components: 4 elements (20 performance criteria), 10 performance evidence and 23 knowledge evidence requirements. 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 Determine chain of responsibility features in the HVNL or applicable state/territory law and regulations

  • 1.1Transport activities and parties in the chain of responsibility are determined
  • 1.2Principle of shared responsibility obligations within chain of responsibility in the HVNL or applicable state/territory law and regulations are determined
  • 1.3Primary duty of parties in the chain of responsibility as outlined in the HVNL or applicable state/territory law and regulations are explained
  • 1.4So far as reasonably practicable or reasonable steps compliance with chain of responsibility as outlined in the HVNL or applicable state/territory law and regulations are explained
  • 1.5Breaches and penalties for failure to comply with chain of responsibility as identified in the HVNL or applicable state/territory law and regulations are explained

2 Monitor chain of responsibility obligations in the HVNL or applicable state/ territory law and regulations

  • 2.1Workplace policies, procedures and other documents relevant to ensuring the safety of transport activities as they apply to job functions are identified and monitored
  • 2.2Methods and requirements to facilitate and ensure management of speed, fatigue and other business practices are monitored in accordance with job functions and workplace procedures
  • 2.3Methods to calculate and assess vehicle dimension and mass limits are monitored in accordance with job functions and workplace procedures
  • 2.4Methods to ensure loads are secured are monitored in accordance with standards and workplace procedures
  • 2.5Heavy vehicles safety standards and vehicle maintenance are identified and monitored in accordance with workplace procedures
  • 2.6Transport activity risks are identified, assessed and risk control measures implemented and monitored in accordance with workplace procedures
  • 2.7Workplace records relating to transport activities are implemented, monitored, reviewed and reported in accordance with workplace requirements and industry practice

3 Administer and monitor chain of responsibility workplace policies and procedures

  • 3.1Workplace procedures and industry practices for reporting transport activities risks are identified and implemented
  • 3.2Workplace policies and procedures relating to chain of responsibility and associated changes are communicated to all staff and parties in the chain of responsibility
  • 3.3Application of workplace policies and procedures relating to chain of responsibility is monitored to ensure compliance with transport activity obligations
  • 3.4Appropriate actions are taken when non-compliances with chain of responsibility requirements are identified

4 Undertake due diligence activities

  • 4.1Transport activities risks and safety duties are identified in accordance with job functions and workplace procedures
  • 4.2Current hazards and risk information is analysed in a timely manner and appropriate mitigation actions considered in accordance with job functions and workplace procedures
  • 4.3Resources are allocated in accordance with job functions and workplace procedures
  • 4.4Risk control measures are implemented, monitored, and reviewed, and mitigation processes verified in accordance with workplace procedures

Performance evidence

  • applying and monitoring workplace policies and procedures relating to safety of transport activities (chain of responsibility) in a supervisory function reflecting a minimum of four weeks
  • applying applicable state/territory law and regulations
  • applying chain of responsibility obligations relating to own job functions on a minimum of three occasions
  • assessing the likelihood and consequences of harm relating to own job functions on a minimum of three occasions
  • completing safety documentation of identified transport activities of a heavy vehicle risks on a minimum of three occasions, each about a different type of risk
  • ensuring safety of transport activities on road
  • identifying heavy vehicle transport activities risks
  • implementing relevant risk control measures relevant to the job functions in accordance with workplace procedures on a minimum of three scenarios
  • mapping business end to end transport activities including inbound and outbound on at least one occasion
  • monitoring, reporting and continuous improvement of transport activity hazards, risks and risk control measures including: collecting information, consultation with parties with shared responsibilities, identifying relevant information, identifying who should receive information - reporting lines, interpreting information and what actions to take, providing feedback, reporting and recording direct observations and actions taken to address risks to the relevant person in accordance with workplace procedures on a minimum of three occasions.

Knowledge evidence

  • actions required when possible risks of the transport activity of a heavy vehicle are identified
  • assurance provisions in relations to contracting and third party interactions
  • consideration of external factors in managing speed and fatigue
  • due diligence includes: acquire and keep up to date on knowledge about the safe conduct of transport activities, identify the nature of the legal entity’s transport activities and the hazards and risks associated with those activities, ensure that appropriate resources are allocated and used to eliminate or minimise those hazards and risks, verify the control measures implemented are effective
  • duties: chain of responsibility (CoR) parties having the same primary duty, safety duties include: primary duty, executive duty
  • functions of driver and how they relate to transport activities including level of influence and control
  • functions including: duties within the individual’s own function, duties performed by others under the individual’s supervision, duties that influence or direct other parties in the chain of responsibility
  • heavy vehicle work and rest requirements
  • how to ensure safety of transport activities on road inclusive of risk management principles
  • impact of crossing legislative jurisdictions
  • methods, industry standards and requirements to ensure safety of transport activities including fatigue, speed, load restraint, mass, dimension and heavy vehicle maintenance and how they relate to transport activity job functions
  • parties in the chain of responsibility and the concept of level of influence and control
  • potential consequences of non-compliance with the applicable heavy vehicle state/territory law and regulations
  • primary duty and executive duty obligations
  • primary duty lies mainly with a business, rather than an individual employee carrying out the job functions
  • principal obligations relating to chain of responsibility in the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) or applicable state/territory law and regulations including: consideration of traffic conditions in managing speed and fatigue, fatigue, work and rest times, securing loads, vehicle dimension and load limits
  • risks and associated performance of the job functions in relation to safety of a heavy vehicle on a road
  • safety based on definitions of public risk, safety risk and public safety
  • ten defined CoR functions
  • transport activities including business practices as defined by the HVNL or applicable state/territory law and regulations
  • what constitutes a shared duty, reasonably practicable, a risk, risk control and heavy vehicle transport activity as they apply to a range of job functions
  • what constitutes an unreasonable request
  • where to locate current information relating to heavy vehicle transport activities including: codes of practices, fatigue-regulated heavy vehicle and definitions, heavy vehicle standards, securing loads, load placement and load restraint, vehicle dimension and mass limits, workplace policies and procedures for own job function and the range of job functions for which own job function is responsible.

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