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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Provide search and rescue alerting
   • Critical event times for search and rescue alerting are monitored and actioned
   • Appropriate emergency phase is amended when required
   • Search and rescue information is coordinated and/or relayed
   • Actions are completed and reviewed in accordance with workplace procedures
2. Provide emergency response
   • Critical initial actions are carried out in accordance with emergency plans and checklists
3. Response to abnormal or emergency situations is provided using standard operating procedures (SOPs)
4. Separation is applied during abnormal or emergency situations
5. Priority service is provided to emergency situations
6. Standard emergency phraseologies are used
7. Critical information is relayed and updated
8. Abnormal or emergency situations are coordinated and transferred to other responsible units as required
9. Appropriate emergency phase is declared in accordance with SOPs
10. Emergency situations are recorded, and events are reported in accordance with SOPs
    • Critical event times for SAR alerting are monitored and actioned
11. Appropriate emergency phase is amended when required
12. SAR information is coordinated and/or relayed
13. Actions are completed and reviewed in accordance with workplace procedures

Range Statement

Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment.

Non-essential conditions can be found in the Companion Volume Implementation Guide.

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria on at least one occasion and include:

communicating clearly and concisely to relevant stakeholders using standard and nonstandard phrases communicating effectively when providing search and rescue (SAR) alerting and emergency response comprehending incoming information and responding effectively declaring emergency phases initiating inflight emergency response (IFER) and implementing Aerodrome Emergency Plan (AEP) maintaining air traffic services to other traffic during emergencies and abnormal operations monitoring and responding to alarms monitoring and anticipating operational problems and hazards and taking appropriate action monitoring critical SAR event times operating equipment in accordance with standard operating procedures regulating own workload in abnormal or emergency situations responding and updating checklists responding to SAR alerting responding to stressful situations with a considered and measured approach using emergency messages, phrases and signals working systematically with required attention to detail.

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of:

documentation for providing SAR alerting and emergency response including recording emergency and/or abnormal flight related information emergency and abnormal human machine interface (HMI) indications including alerts and alarms emergency checklists and documentation emergency separation standards emergency communications IFER documentation IFER management process jurisdictions related to SAR for different aircraft operations relevant and environmental procedures and regulations SAR time (SARTIME) criteria and emergency phase declaration SAR watch (SARWATCH) criteria and emergency phase declaration SAR organisations and authorities types of inflight emergencies use of checklists and other documentation.

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