AAOM Handbook

WE.11 Establish Required Workplace Conditions Context Where it is material to the execution of a Task, workplace conditions for the work will be specified in the Task documentation. However, there are potentially many workplace variables that can affect the ability or the capacity of the individual assigned the Task to complete it. The individual must use their knowledge, experience and skill to identify these before starting the work. The consequences of commencing a Task without having all the correct conditions can include;  a risk to output, cost or sustainability (i.e. dealing responsibly with safety, the environment, employees, communities, governments and asset life) expectations,  the failure to deliver some or all the outcomes,  delay in completing the work. The person assigned a Task may find that some of the specified workplace conditions are not established, or that a workplace condition necessary for the work was not specified. In either case person can often use their own initiative to establish the necessary conditions. They should do this if it is within their authority to do so, and if in doing so they can still meet all of the outcomes required of the work – including the agreed time for completion of the work. Purpose To establish the workplace conditions required to complete a Task. Quantity The workplace conditions necessary to complete the Task. Quality In establishing the workplace conditions the person assigned the Task must confirm that;  it is within their authority to do so, and  they will meet all of the outcomes required from the work if they undertake to establish the workplace conditions,  the workplace conditions they establish must meet the sustainability (i.e. dealing responsibly with safety, the environment, employees, communities, governments and asset life) expectations of the Company.