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AJ7 Oversee project costs, quality and progress

AJ7.3 Oversee project compliance with legal and statutory requirements

Performance Required

This will involve:

1. ensuring that legal and statutory requirements are correctly specified and responsibilities correctly allocated and clearly understood by interested parties
2. ensuring that appropriate monitoring and reporting arrangements are in place and are effective
3. investigating instances of non-compliance with legal and statutory requirements thoroughly and recommending appropriate remedial action to interested parties, in accordance with the terms of your appointment
4. identifying and summarising any changes in legislation and statutory requirements which have a potential impact on the project and passing these promptly to interested parties
5. verifying that records are maintained and statutory returns are completed accurately, legibly, on time and in accordance with the terms of your appointment

Occupational Context

1. Legal and statutory requirements:
   • Planning regulations (including Planning policy Guidance notes: PPG 15/16)
   • Health and safety legislation (including CDM)
   • relevant legislation governing works on archaeological sites (including: Scheduled Monuments, Treasure Act, Discovery and Treatment of Human Remains)
2. Interested parties
   • employer
   • contractor
   • suppliers
   • statutory and regulatory authorities
   • consultants
3. Monitoring systems:
   • visual inspection
   • comparison with regulatory requirements and approvals
   • comparison with standard specifications
   • contractors' reports
   • site meetings
4. Remedial action:
   • instigate contingency action and restore compliance
   • agree waiver

Knowledge Requirements

You need to know and understand how to:

• Deal with problems arising from non-compliance with statutory legislation

You need to know about:

Regulations and procedures relevant to the control and enforcement of:

• Planning regulations and planning policy guidance
• Scheduled ancient monument legislation
• Treasure act legislation
• Legislation on the discovery & treatment of human remains
• Health and safety legislation (including CDM)
• Other relevant legislation governing archaeological work

Sources of information on legal and statutory requirements

Ensuring compliance

• Methods and techniques for verifying compliance with legal and statutory requirements
• The archaeologist's duties and responsibilities under CDM regulations
• Sources of expert advice and support on compliance with legal and statutory requirements

Required Skills

• N/A

Evidence Required

You should provide evidence that you can oversee project compliance with legal and statutory requirements

The candidate should be questioned, based upon the documentation provided, to explore how they:

• ensured that appropriate monitoring and reporting arrangements were in place and were effective
• investigated instances of non-compliance with legal and statutory requirements them and recommended appropriate remedial action

Evidence Rules

The candidate should have been involved in at least 2 substantive projects.

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Today's date: 22/11/2008
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