This unit involves the skills and knowledge required to plan for a scheduled outage of power generating plant.

A schedule is a plan of action detailing a series of tasks to be undertaken at or during a specified time. A forced outage is the shutdown of generation facility, transmission or distribution line when a generating unit is unavailable to produce power due to an unexpected breakdown.

Competency in this unit requires the ability to identify outage requirements, create outage plans, implement outage plans and complete documentation. Individuals will, in general, work as an operator with responsibility for quality control, in a power generation facility.

Power generation plant operators are trained and authorised to isolate, prepare plant and issue permits to work.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.