This unit involves the skills and knowledge required to oversee compliance of the maintenance quality system, using performance indicators, within a team environment.
Quality control is a process through which an organisation seeks to ensure that significant variations in quality are kept to a minimum. Quality control in power generation facilities will focus on a set of procedures intended to ensure that personnel, plant and equipment operate efficiently.
Competency in this unit requires the ability to formulate team aspects of the quality system and facilitate team quality systems. Individuals will, in general, work as an operator, in a power generation facility.
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 Work, Health and Safety (WHS)/Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) regulations including:
* emergency procedures
* risk control measures
* safe working practices
* communicating with personnel
* implementing legislation, industry standards, codes of practice and regulations
* maintaining records and documentation
* monitoring and reviewing quality system
* recommending and implementing workplace quality improvements
* undertaking performance reporting including Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and key result areas
* using continuous improvement and quality management tools and techniques
* working with quality standards
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.
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):