Audit Question Set Section 6.2 Competence

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These questions can be used as an aid to assure that your project adheres to the policy briefed in clause 6.2 of the Statute Policy mandated by Defence Regulators which states;

Operating Centres, Delivery Teams or equivalents shall ensure that those engaged in safety and environmental protection are suitably qualified and experienced to discharge their safety and environmental responsibilities.

- Policy Clause 6.2 Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel
These questions address ASEMS Part 1, Clause 6.2 and DSA 01.1, Elements C, D and K.
Organisational Leadership, Culture, Capability and Change Management
  1. How has your team established its overall SQEP requirements as well as those of individual team members?
Personnel Competence and Training
  1. How has your team identified the training opportunities necessary to enable its members to become SQEP?
  2. Where are details of individuals training undertaken / outstanding recorded and how often are they reviewed / updated?
  3. In the event of having to allocate a task to someone who is not yet fully SQEP, what arrangements are in place to provide such staff with waivers and / or additional supervision?
Self-Assurance
  1. How has the team assured itself that its competence management processes are adequate and effective and where are the results recorded?

Covers assurance for policy clause

Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel

Operating Centres, Delivery Teams or equivalents shall ensure that those engaged in safety and environmental protection are suitably qualified and experienced to discharge their safety and environmental responsibilities.

6.2

Assures Procedures

EMP01

Environmental Management Plan

A fully resourced plan to facilitate proactive environmental management should be developed. It is likely that aspects will be known to the Delivery Team prior to commencement of the POEMS Process. This procedure should allow the Delivery Team to budget and resource tasks that ensure products, systems and services deliver sound environmental performance.

EMP02

Stakeholder Communications

This procedure will enable the Delivery Team to ensure that environmental issues are appropriately managed, with all environmental responsibilities communicated. EMP02 will assist the Delivery Team in identifying stakeholders, define and agree project environmental responsibilities, produce an effective communication plan and assemble an environmental committee.

SMP01

Project Safety Initiation

This procedure describes the start-up of safety management activities on a project. It identifies safety stakeholders, and legislative and other standards that should be satisfied. The procedure also creates the key elements of the safety management organisation for the project.

SMP02

Safety Committee

This procedure describes the implementation of a Safety Committee, in order to ensure effective co-ordination between persons holding safety responsibilities.

SMP05

Hazard Identification and Analysis

This procedure provides guidance through the Hazard Identification and Analysis process, in which all credible Hazards are identified and subsequently analysed in order to establish the associated Accidents and Accident Sequences.

SMP12

Safety Case and Safety Case Report

This procedure provides guidance on the development of a Safety Case and Safety Case Report. The Safety Case brings together all project safety information, forming a number of arguments which are summarised in the Safety Case Report.