Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine legislative obligations and requirements
- Develop strategies for compliance with legislative obligations and requirements
- Obligations and legislative requirements are analysed to develop compliance strategies
- Strategies are reviewed with relevant stakeholders to determine suitability
- Strategies are used to develop regular, cyclical compliance checks
- Strategies and compliance requirements are communicated to crew members
- Relevant training is conducted to facilitate compliance
- Undertake scheduled compliance checks
- Compliance checks are delegated to relevant crew members
- Problems that may lead to potential noncompliance are identified and reported
- Timing and outcomes of compliance checks are recorded according to regulatory and organisational requirements
- Information from compliance checks is analysed to identify noncompliance or potential noncompliance instances
- Rectify noncompliance with legislative obligations and requirements
- Course of action to take to address noncompliance instances is determined
- Timely remedial action is undertaken and legislative obligations and requirements are complied with
- Training and instruction is conducted to ensure compliance with regulations
- Checks are made to ensure noncompliance has been addressed
- Specific area is monitored to ensure continuing compliance
- Reason for noncompliance is analysed to guide future compliance
- Maintain required certification of shipboard items and equipment
- Documentation held by the vessel is completed against authorised inventory
- Continuous validity of certification extensions and requirements for renewals is ensured through timely attention
- Continuing effectiveness of tests, checks and maintenance programs is reflected in certificate conditions of surveyed items and equipment
- Organisational and issuing authority requirements are complied with through timely survey arrangements
- Maintain documentation related to legislative requirements
- Certificates and documentation are stored in a manner that optimises their use and accessibility for vessel operations
- Clear, concise and accurate records are kept
- Regulatory and organisational requirements, and format for records are complied with
- Validity of records is maintained when required corrections to records are made
- Documentation is secured and confidentiality is maintained according to organisational procedures
- Organisational procedures are followed to back-up computer
- Records and reports are distributed to required authorities at appropriate times