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Required Skills: |
Apply extinguishing media to fire |
Apply safe working practices at all times |
Assist in the setting up and use of foam making equipment |
Correctly don and use SCB while undertaking fire extinguishment and rescue in a heated smoke filled compartment |
Enter and move through a compartment filled with high expansion foam with the aid of a lifeline and without breathing apparatus |
Extinguish a fire with a fire blanket |
Log SCBA wearers correctly on a control board |
Operate charged hose-lines and nozzles |
Operate portable firefighting extinguishers |
Perform after use maintenance on SCBA |
Required Knowledge: |
Action to be taken: in an emergency on board ship |
Alarms and signals during onboard emergencies |
Chemistry of fire, including the fire tetrahedron and its relationship to materials typically found on vessels |
Classification of fire and applicable extinguishing agents |
Correct use of all lifesaving appliances and firefighting appliances |
Different classes of fire, their characteristics and strategies and equipment needed for their extinguishment |
Elements of fire and explosion (the fire triangle) |
Extinguishing media including firefighting foams |
Fire and smoke detection and automatic alarm systems |
Firefighting tactics, techniques and procedures |
Flammable materials, fire hazards and spread of fire |
Hazards and threats to life or health during onboard firefighting operations |
Lifeline signals |
Location of firefighting appliances and emergency escape routes |
Maintenance of lifesaving appliances and firefighting appliances |
Need for constant vigilance |
Onboard Emergency Response Organisation and procedures |
Portable fire extinguishers |
Principles and methods of fire extinguishment |
Principles underlying the spread of fire |
Relevant Australian Standards |
Safe working practices |
Shipboard firefighting organisation |
Statutory requirements pertaining to lifesaving appliances and firefighting appliances |
Types and sources of ignition |
Types of fire detection, firefighting equipment and systems used on vessels, their features, principles of operation, procedures for their use and problems that can occur |
Ventilation procedures |
Vessel construction as it relates to fire prevention/protection |
Work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) requirements and work practices |