Required Skills: |
Communicate clearly and effectively |
Correctly identify SDS/MSDS, relevant cargo-related hazards to vessel and to personnel, and take appropriate action according to organisational procedures |
Ensure cargo operations are carried out according to accepted principles and procedures to ensure safety of operations |
Identify and act on becoming aware of a hazardous situation, according to organisational procedures |
Interpret and apply knowledge of liquefied gas tanker layouts, tanker cargo features, characteristics and hazards, and related hazard prevention strategies to duties on various types of liquefied gas tankers |
Read and interpret SDS/MSDS |
Recognise problems and hazards that can arise when managing safety on a liquefied gas tanker, take appropriate remedial action and initiate appropriate solutions |
Required Knowledge: |
Anti-static measures in hazard control |
Atmospheric control |
Cargo handling equipment |
Cargo inhibition in hazard control |
Corrosion hazards associated with tanker operations |
Emergency shut-down system (ESD) |
Environmental hazards associated with tanker operations |
Explosion and flammability hazards associated with tanker operations |
Extremely low temperatures associated with tanker operations |
Gas testing |
General arrangement and construction of liquefied gas tankers |
Health hazards associated with tanker operations |
Importance of cargo compatibility |
Inerting, drying and monitoring techniques in hazard control |
Information on a SDS/MSDS |
Loading, unloading and care in transit |
Piping systems and valves |
Pressure and temperature, including vapour pressure/temperature relationship |
Pressure hazards associated with tanker operations |
Properties and characteristics of liquefied gas |
Reactivity hazards associated with tanker operations |
Relevant chemical symbols |
Relevant firefighting operations and the use of firefighting installations |
Segregation in hazard control |
Sources of ignition associated with tanker operations |
Tanker cleaning, purging, gas-freeing and inerting |
Tanker safety culture and safety management |
Types of electrostatic charge generation |
Types of liquefied gas tankers |
Vapour leaks and clouds associated with tanker operations |
Ventilation in hazard control |
Work health and safety(WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) requirements and work practices |