New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY (SAFETY AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT) REGULATION 2008 - REG 18

18 Additional report requirements-network safety and reliability

The report prepared by an auditor in relation to an audit of chapter 1 of a plan must also include the following:

(a) a review of the plan for adequacy and appropriateness having regard to any changes in the network operator’s transmission or distribution system since the previous audit,

(b) an appraisal of the organisational quality management arrangements intended to ensure that the transmission or distribution system is planned, designed, constructed, operated and maintained in accordance with the plan,

(c) an appraisal of the reliability and integrity of information reported under the plan, including an analysis of the following:

(i) the documented procedures for measuring, processing and reporting data, measurement systems, information systems and quality controls,

(ii) the extent to which relevant staff demonstrate an understanding of those documented procedures, measurement systems, information systems and quality controls,

(iii) evidence that those documented procedures, measurement systems, information systems and quality controls are being observed or properly implemented,

(iv) the extent to which any reported data have been estimated or extrapolated rather than measured directly,

(d) an appraisal of the involvement by senior management and the board of the network operator in approving the plan.