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Required Skills: |
Communicate clearly and effectively |
Correctly identify SDS/MSDS, relevant cargo-related hazards to vessel and to personnel, and take appropriate action |
Ensure cargo operations are carried out according to accepted principles and procedures to ensure safety of operations |
Identify and act on becoming aware of hazardous situation |
Interpret and apply knowledge of tanker layouts, tanker cargo features, characteristics and hazards, and related hazard prevention strategies to duties on various types of tankers and gas carriers |
Read and interpret SDS/MSDS |
Recognise problems and hazards that can arise when managing safety on a tanker, take appropriate remedial action and initiate appropriate solutions |
Required Knowledge: |
Actions to be taken in the event of spillage |
Cargo pumps |
Corrosion hazards |
Effects of oil and chemical pollution on human and marine life |
Features and characteristics of various types of tanker cargo |
Functions and processes for the calibration of various types of measuring instruments and devices used to test environments on tankers and gas carriers |
General arrangement and construction of tankers |
Hazard controls |
Hazard control procedures on tankers and gas carriers |
Hazards and control measures associated with tanker cargo operations |
Hazards associated with: tanker operations carriage of bulk liquids and gases |
Hazards to the environment |
Information on SDS/MSDS |
Loading and unloading |
Measures to be taken in the event of spillage |
Physical properties of oil and chemicals |
Piping systems and valves |
Principles of chemistry as they relate to tanker operations |
Procedures for the safe use of personal protective equipment |
Procedures to prevent air and water pollution |
Reactivity hazards |
Shipboard procedures to prevent pollution |
Tanker cleaning, purging, gas-freeing and inerting |
Tanker safety culture and safety management |
Terminology relating to the structure capacities and operations of various types of tankers and gas carriers |
Types of oil and chemical tankers |
Work health and safety(WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) requirements and work practices |