Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare to abandon vessel
- Nature of emergency is determined to minimise potential dangers and threats
- Muster and abandon vessel signals are responded to according to vessel safety procedures
- Survival equipment is organised to maximise chances of survival
- Emergency position indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) is operated to transmit distress signal
- Distress calls are made using radio equipment
- Others are assisted to maximise their chances of survival
- Prevailing circumstances and emergency conditions are used as the basis for timing and sequencing individual survival actions, and potential dangers and threats to other survivors are minimised
- Operate lifesaving and survival equipment
- Location and accessibility of lifesaving and survival equipment is established
- Survival craft is launched in a timely and effective manner
- Survival equipment is operated according to instructions and accepted survival practice
- Survival radio equipment is operated according to manufacturer instructions and regulatory protocols
- Lifejacket and other lifesaving clothing are correctly used according to instructions
- Abandon vessel safely
- Need to abandon vessel is established according to safety management system (SMS) or plan
- Survival craft is launched according to instructions
- Survival craft is checked to ensure it is safe to board
- Survival craft is boarded observing safety of other survivors
- Survival craft is released from abandoned vessel
- Exposure cover is deployed on survival craft according to accepted survival practice and manufacturer instructions
- Apply survival techniques
- Survival craft is checked for seaworthiness
- Sea anchors and drogues are deployed according to accepted nautical practice
- Occupants are checked for signs of hypothermia or other injuries and first aid is applied as required
- Water and food is rationed
- Lookout for vessels and aircraft in vicinity is maintained and distress signals are released on sighting
- Instructions given by rescue personnel are followed to safely access rescue craft