Establish, monitor and review plan Submission details Candidate’s name Phone no. Assessor’s name Phone no. Assessment site Assessment date/s Time/s The assessment task is due on the date specified by your assessor. Any variations to this arrangement must be approved in writing by your assessor. Submit this document with any required evidence attached. See specifications below for details. Performance objective This task requires you to establish, monitor and review the implementation plan developed in the previous assessment task. Assessment description In this assessment task, following on from Assessment Task 2, you are required to establish the compliance management system within the organisation, and then report on your monitoring and review of the system. Scenario You are an external consultant hired to research, plan, implement and monitor a compliance management system. You will need to follow your plan to train/induct personnel in their specific duties in relation to your implementation plan. You will then need to monitor your plan by meeting with those personnel at a later date to gather information on performance in accordance with your plan. Finally, the CEO has asked you to provide an evaluation of the implementation of your plan. To meet organisational requirements, you will need to prepare a report for senior management. Report headings: 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Summarise content, results of monitoring. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF SYSTEM Describe steps taken to implement the system. 3. MONITORING METHODOLOGY Describe the methods and approaches used to monitor performance of the system. 4. RESULTS AND ANALYSIS Describe and analyse results of your monitoring activities. 5. CONCLUSION Discuss overall compliance, including specific problem components of the system and success areas. Make specific recommendations for improvement with reference to relevant standards. Procedure 1. Review the scenario above. 2. In accordance with your implementation plan, developed and approved in Assessment Task 2, meet with the managers and operations personnel that you have assigned to positions in implementing the compliance management systems. Train them in their specific duties. a. Explain the components of the compliance management system. b. Describe the compliance management responsibilities for all personnel. c. Outline each person’s duties with regard to reporting, including what methods, tools and templates they should use to supply information to you. For example, you might use negotiated performance measures such as KPIs and scorecards, questionnaires and surveys, oral questioning, etc. Consider performance with respect to, for example: achieving performance targets for outcomes such as a particular number of complaints; achieving performance targets for processes or management such as regular reporting; following procedures. Be prepared to clarify misunderstandings and answer questions. Note: If you are basing your assessment on the Charity-Care case study, your assessor will need to assist with this step. 3. In accordance with your plan, meet with the managers and operations personnel that have been implementing the compliance management system and: a. monitor the operation of the compliance management system, using the methods and approaches you outlined in your initial meeting with personnel b. review and evaluate the implementation of the compliance management system. Analyse relevant qualitative and quantitative data. Use benchmarking data, including time lines, if available, to compare the organisation to like organisations. Note: If you are basing your assessment on the Charity-Care case study, your assessor will need to assist with this step. 4. Develop a management report in accordance with the requirements outlined in the scenario above. 5. Submit documentation as per specifications below. Keep copies for your records. Specifications You must provide: ● a written management report. Your assessor will be looking for: ● ability to contribute to a positive culture of compliance within an organisation ● research skills to assist with the analysis and organisation of research data, including qualitative and quantitative data, using appropriate techniques ● interpersonal skills to relate to internal and external personnel ● literacy skills to write reports containing complex concepts ● knowledge of quantitative and qualitative data analysis techniques relevant to compliance-related research ● knowledge of relevant Australian and international standards ● knowledge of elements of compliance program/management systems ● knowledge of relevant organisational policies and procedures. Adjustment for distance-based learners ● No variation of the task is required. Training/induction and meeting with personnel may be conducted via teleconferencing. ● A follow-up interview may be required (at the discretion of the assessor). ● Documentation can be submitted electronically or posted in the mail. __________________________________________________________________________ CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY 5 __________________________________________________________________________ Climate Assignment Ecologically and climatically appropriate building design. Most traditional construction around the world is well-adapted to its environment and generally makes use of ecologically appropriate building materials and forms. Before mechanical space heating and cooling were available, traditional settlements developed a natural harmony with their climate and had as a consequence, a minimal carbon footprint. With global warming, we are returning to ecologically sustainable and climatically appropriate building designs. Particularly in this assignment, we will be looking at building designs, in climatically diverse locations across Australia and our near neighbours, investigating appropriate solutions for that location from elsewhere in the world that will have a minimum carbon footprint. You will be focusing on traditional solutions (say prior to 1900’s) from around the world, in similar climatic locations; to derive possible solutions for the location you will be assigned. As a group of 5 (minimum) or 7 (maximum) students, you will be allocated a location and your group is to become familiar with its peculiar climatic constraints. You are then to investigate other locations around the world in similar climates and discover the type of traditional building that developed to solve their particular needs for warmth (or cooling) and shelter. The list at the end of this handout has locations from around our region which are climatically diverse. When you have formed your groups a location will be allocated. Please form groups early in the semester. You must research the following topics to determine their influence on building design for your location: 1. The characteristics of the climate. i. Average maximum summer and minimum winter temperatures. ii. Diurnal temperature range both in summer and winter. iii. Humidity levels in summer and winter. iv. Solar characteristics (sun path and intensity of solar radiation). v. Atmospheric conditions (dust, cloudiness, precipitation e.g. mist & rain). vi. Incidence and extent of snow, if applicable. vii. Evaporation rates, rainfall intensities, flooding, fire and any other extremes of climatic conditions encountered at your location. viii. Remember to consider the use of vegetation to control the extremes of the climatic conditions, if at all possible. 2. Lighting needs of the building i. Glare problems; snow or bare ground. ii. Natural and artificial methods of lighting. iii. Lighting control throughout the day. 3. Acoustic background of the building i. External noise levels ii. Internal noise levels The locations chosen have some degree of discomfort in their climate in either summer or winter conditions. It might be the hottest day recorded or length of hot days or the highest evaporation rate. Or it could be the lowest or highest rainfall recorded with associated extremes of flooding or the highest altitude with resultant snow loads. Your group is to overcome these extremities and make your building solution an ecologically sustainable solution using ideas developed from traditional methods sourced from overseas. We are primarily focusing on characteristics of the environment and climate that impinge on building design and deriving solutions that would be acceptable to our culture in Australia. You can use modern building methods or materials to construct your building designs, but the focus is traditional solutions. You can use solar panels to generate both electrical & hot water, but again the focus is traditional solutions. The keywords are ecologically sound solutions that are climatically appropriate to the area you are assigned. Common problems • You are to discover countries that have similar climatic zones, and determine from your research the type of traditional building, that might have appropriate lessons for your allocated area. You must NOT include a general discussion of the cultural, geographic or political background of the country, unless it relates to the design of buildings. Marks will be deducted for padding. • Structural concerns, from snow, floods, earthquake & hurricanes should only be discussed if they affect the lighting, acoustic or thermal characteristics of the building. • You must include a Table of Contents, Conclusion and Reference list (Harvard method); overall it must be a professional report. See the Learning Guide for more details. Assessment (20% of final mark for the unit) Demonstrate how the environmental factors influence the design of traditional buildings in your similar region and how these principles can be applied and implemented to buildings at your location in Australia. This will be done through: 1. A 25 minute maximum verbal presentation (say 15 minute talk {i.e. app. 3 minutes each} and 5 minutes questions to the whole group). The presentation must be accompanied by PowerPoint slides (or similar). 2. A written submission; The length of the report is not critical but there should be input from all members of the group and heat, light and sound should be covered.. Diagrams and photographs are encouraged and should be referenced separately. This is a guide only. You may write a longer or shorter report if you want to do so. It is the quality of what is written that counts. 3. List of Locations: These will be allocated once you form your group Avoca TAS Marree SA Barrow Creek NT Mataranaka NT Birdsville QLD Meekatharra WA Bothwell TAS Menindee NSW Ceduna SA Miena TAS Cobar NSW Moree NSW Coober Pedy SA Peak Hill WA Cromwell NZ Pedirka SA Curie TAS Port Arthur TAS Daly Waters NT Queenstown NZ Derby WA Red Cliffs VIC Emerald QLD Renner Springs NT Halls Creek WA Robinvale VIC Hopetoun VIC Rosebery TAS Innisfail QLD Rotorua NZ Invercargill NZ Taupo NZ Karumba QLD Tumbarumba NSW Laverton WA Wangaratta VIC Mackay QLD Wilpena SA Maningrida NT Windorah QLD 4. Value of the Assignment, including PowerPoint & live presentation: 20% Submission Date: At time of presentation either week 13 or 14, as scheduled later in the semester