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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare resources for erection of survival shelter
   • Identify potential threat to personal survival posed by the elements and use natural features to provide immediate protection.
   • Optimise survival shelter’s siting for protection from the elements and to minimise hazards to the survivalist, taking advantage, where possible, of existing natural resources.
   • Collect resources to construct survival shelter to maximise shelter strength and protection, while minimising physical effort.
2. Construct survival shelter
   • Construct traditional twoply string for use in binding and securing.
   • Establish survival shelter’s framework, taking maximum advantage of the strength of natural junction points such as forks, by using and binding with improvised cordage.
   • Protect survival shelter from wind and rain, using shingling (bark sections and large leaves) and thatching (bound grass and bundled grass) for roofing and siding.
3. Prepare resources for erection of survival shelter
   • Identify potential threat to personal survival posed by the elements and use natural features to provide immediate protection.
   • Optimise survival shelter’s siting for protection from the elements and to minimise hazards to the survivalist, taking advantage, where possible, of existing natural resources.
   • Collect resources to construct survival shelter to maximise shelter strength and protection, while minimising physical effort.
4. Construct survival shelter
   • Construct traditional twoply string for use in binding and securing.
   • Establish survival shelter’s framework, taking maximum advantage of the strength of natural junction points such as forks, by using and binding with improvised cordage.
   • Protect survival shelter from wind and rain, using shingling (bark sections and large leaves) and thatching (bound grass and bundled grass) for roofing and siding.

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the candidate must demonstrate evidence of performance of the following on at least one occasion.

tying knots and lashes

constructing at least two shelters capable of withstanding a vertical or horizontal loading to the framework of 300N; that repels all water when twenty litres is poured along the top/leading edge of the structure to simulate rain; whose tiling and thatching remains adhered to the shelter under wind conditions of Beaufort scale 4 (11–16 knots)

using and binding with improvised cordage including at least one of

animal skins/gut

bark strips

reeds and grasses

traditional twoply string

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the depth of knowledge demonstrated must be appropriate to the job context of the candidate.

priorities of survival

threats to survival from elements

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