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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Launch survival craft and rescue boats
   • Preparations for the launch of the survival craft or rescue boat are made according to manufacturer instructions and organisational procedures
   • Launch strategy is adopted appropriate to the prevailing circumstances and conditions
   • Launching equipment is operated according to manufacturer instructions and organisational procedures
   • Survival craft or rescue boat is launched smoothly according to accepted safety practices and standards
2. Operate survival craft and rescue boats
   • Pre-start checks are conducted on the engine
   • Engine is started according to manufacturer instructions and organisational procedures
   • Orders are given for survivors to board the survival craft
   • Survival craft is cleared of the vessel and operated according to manufacturer instructions and organisational procedures
   • Survival craft is manoeuvred appropriately for the prevailing circumstances and conditions
3. Operate lifesaving and survival equipment
   • Location and accessibility of all lifesaving and survival equipment is established
   • Survival equipment is checked and operated according to manufacturer instructions and organisational procedures
   • Lifesaving clothing is correctly donned and used according to manufacturer instructions and organisational procedures
   • Strategies are implemented to counter threats to survival according to accepted survival practice
4. Recover survival craft
   • Persons are disembarked from the survival craft according to organisational procedures
   • Survival craft is recovered according to manufacturer instructions and organisational procedures
   • Survival craft and equipment are checked for signs of damage and faulty equipment
   • Identified faulty equipment or damage is reported according to organisational procedures
5. Organise abandon vessel musters and drills
   • Abandon vessel musters and drills are arranged according to regulatory requirements and organisational procedures
   • Instruction is provided to others on organisational procedures and the correct use of lifesaving equipment
   • Musters and drills are reviewed against objectives
   • Reporting obligations are completed according to regulatory requirements and organisational procedures
   • Risk control processes are implemented

Range Statement

Specifies different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included. Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment.
Survival craft and rescue boats must include:	life rafts lifeboats rescue boats
Launching equipment must include:	cranes davits life raft launching and inflation equipment
Lifesaving and survival equipment must include:	immersion suits life jackets person overboard combination light and smoke float portable radio equipment pyrotechnic distress signals search and rescue transponders (SARTs) satellite emergency position indicating radio beacons (EPIRBs) thermal protective aids
Strategies must include:	beaching survival craft deploying exposure cover on an open lifeboat handling survival craft in rough weather helicopter rescue from survival craft maximising detect-ability of survival craft preventing and treating hypothermia rationing food and water using rescue boat to marshal life rafts using rescue boat to retrieve survivors in the sea

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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:

acting appropriately in the prevailing circumstances and conditions in response to abandon ship and survival situations according to accepted safety practices and standards

communicating effectively with others as required when operating survival craft and ancillary survival equipment

conducting inspections of other survival equipment at intervals determined by the safety management system

conducting tests and pre-start checks of equipment at intervals determined by the safety management system

giving correct commands for launching and boarding survival craft and clearing the ship

interpreting and applying International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) practices and regulations

launching and operating various types of survival craft

organising abandon vessel drills

reading and interpreting instructions relevant to the safe operation of lifesaving appliances on board a vessel

recovering survival craft and rescue boats and resetting release devices

rowing and steering a survival craft and rescue boat

safely operating off-load and on-load release devices

selecting and using appropriate lifesaving appliances and communications equipment

using a compass

using portable radio equipment, pyrotechnics and other signalling equipment

using survival craft equipment including rigging devices to aid location.

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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:

construction and outfit of survival craft and rescue boats

dangers associated with the use of on-load release devices

emergency muster and abandon vessel signals

International code of signals (ICS), purpose and meaning of signals

International Maritime Organization (IMO) safety symbols

International Safety Management (ISM) Code safety management system plans, procedures, checklists and instructions

maintenance procedures for survival craft and rescue boats

manoeuvring characteristics of survival craft and rescue boats

Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) amendments 2014

operation of survival craft and rescue boats, their launching appliances and arrangements and their equipment

procedures and sequences for launching, carrying out pre-start engine checks and operating survival craft and rescue boats in a variety of sea and weather conditions

procedures for correctly operating and using lifesaving appliances and personal safety equipment on vessels and survival craft

relevant sections of applicable maritime regulations

relevant work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) legislation

SOLAS regulations

symptoms of hypothermia, its prevention and treatment

threats to survival on abandonment of a vessel and appropriate strategies for countering these threats

typical manoeuvring and engine characteristics for survival craft

ways of maximising detectability and location of survival craft using radio lifesaving appliances, pyrotechnic distress signals, satellite emergency position indicating radio beacons (EPIRBs), and search and rescue transponders (SARTs).

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