Required Skills

Analyse and compile operational and voyage data and prepare reports

Communicate effectively verbally and in writing

Comply with mandatory rules and regulations and IMO Conventions and Codes including the relevant sections of Australian Maritime Safety Authority AMSA Marine Orders and ensure applicable codes guidelines and standards recommended by IMO classification societies and maritime industry organisations are taken into account

Conduct management meetings

Coordinate an audit to maintain a safety management certificate

Establish and develop dynamic groups and teams on board a vessel

Follow correct procedures for obtaining a safety management certificate

Implement human resources management responsibilities

Interpret and apply information on contracts of carriage marine insurance salvage and towage

national administrative procedures for accident investigation and vessel and port security

procedures relating to customs quarantine and immigration clearance

labourrelated regulations

Investigate and arbitrate shipboard conflict

Investigate analyse and compile casualty data and prepare related reports

Lead officers and crew

Maintain vessel security

Motivate shipboard personnel

Organise training evaluation processes

Plan implement and monitor goals and performance requirements for vessel operations and emergencies

Plan implement and monitor requirements related to

Master duties obligations commercial and legal responsibilities under national and international laws and conventions

state port control

vessel documentation certification and survey

Plan implement and monitor WHSOHS procedures and practices

Plan organise and promote shipboard training programs

Promote correct safety management on board vessels

Recognise and interpret nonverbal communication

Use management skills effectively

Required Knowledge

Competency requirements for typical shipboard operations

Conflict resolution and mediation strategies and techniques

Contracts of carriage marine insurance salvage and towage

Established marine resource management procedures and practice

Equal employment policies and regulations

General principles of integrated vessel and bridge management

Human resource management problems and appropriate action and solutions

Legal issues relevant to Master responsibilities such as

functions and responsibilities of Master vessel owner and charterer in various types of charters and contracts of carriage

vessel owner obligation of reasonable dispatch

lay time demurrage and dispatch

functions of a bill of lading

characteristics of a contract of carriage

international conventions relating to liability of a sea carrier

salvage and towage contracts

tort liability

legal principles of pilotage

insurance arrangements

vessel registration requirements

investigations and courts of marine inquiry

Maritime communication techniques including barriers to effective communication and how to overcome them

Methods for

evaluating efficacy of shipboard training drills and competency assessment

motivating shipboard personnel

identifying problems in services to other departments or in procedures and systems

National administrative procedures for accident investigation and vessel and port security

National Training Packages and competency standards relevant to shipboard personnel

Principles of effective leadership and teamwork

Procedures for

collecting compiling analysing and reporting on safety incidents and casualties on board a vessel including format and characteristics of a good safety incident report

obtaining a safety management certificate and undergoing subsequent audits to maintain it

planning implementing and monitoring goals and performance requirements for vessel operations and emergencies

relating to customs quarantine and immigration clearance

Regulatory requirements for shipboard drills

Relevant

industrial award requirements as they relate to shipboard personnel responsibilities obligations and entitlements

maritime regulations

WHSOHS and marine pollution control legislation codes of practice policies and procedures

Requirements related to

state port control

vessel documentation certification and survey

Role of vessel Master including duties obligations and commercial and legal responsibilities under national and international laws and conventions

Techniques for

evaluating and seeking alternatives for improvement of shipboard operational and emergency procedures and systems

setting of performance standards and evaluating performance of shipboard personnel

Training and competency assessment techniques and options suitable for shipboard personnel

Vessel SMS and

its aims objectives advantages and disadvantages

general provisions for developing and monitoring vessel SMS

requirements of relevant maritime authorities for SMS

The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria the required skills and knowledge the range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package

Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit

The evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the Elements Performance Criteria Required Skills Required Knowledge and include

taking action promptly to report andor rectify management problems according to established procedures

completing work systematically with required attention to detail

developing effective planning documents

providing high quality reports

ensuring currency of relevant legislative and regulatory knowledge

providing accurate and reliable information

Context of and specific resources for assessment

Performance is demonstrated consistently over time and in a suitable range of contexts

Resources for assessment include access to

industryapproved marine operations site where managing business and administration on vessels limited by tonnage or near coastal operations can be conducted

tools equipment and personal protective equipment currently used in industry

relevant regulatory and equipment documentation that impacts on work activities

range of relevant exercises case studies andor other simulated practical and knowledge assessments

appropriate range of relevant operational situations in the workplace

In both real and simulated environments access is required to

relevant and appropriate materials and equipment

applicable documentation including workplace procedures regulations codes of practice and operation manuals

Method of assessment

Practical assessment must occur in an

appropriately simulated workplace environment andor

appropriate range of situations in the workplace

A range of assessment methods should be used to assess practical skills and knowledge The following examples are appropriate to this unit

direct observation of the candidate managing business and administration on vessels limited by tonnage or near coastal operations

direct observation of the candidate applying relevant WHSOHS requirements and work practices

Guidance information for assessment

Holistic assessment with other units relevant to the industry sector workplace and job role is recommended

In all cases where practical assessment is used it should be combined with targeted questioning to assess Required Knowledge

Assessment processes and techniques must be appropriate to the language and literacy requirements of the work being performed and the capacity of the candidate

Vessel may include:

Vessel operations may include:

Laws and regulations pertaining to vessel operations and contingencies may include:

Vessel inventory of plant, equipment and other physical resources may include:

Vessel physical resources may include:

Training may include: