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Elements and Performance Criteria

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.
Emergency situations must include:	collision fire foundering

Radio equipment includes one or more of the following:	EPIRB Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) HF search and rescue transponders (SARTs) VHF

Survival craft and rescue boats include one or more of the following:	inflatable life raft life boat rescue boat

Lifesaving and survival equipment includes one or more of the following:	EPIRBs flares life jackets immersion suit person overboard combination light and smoke float SARTs

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:

boarding a survival craft from the ship and water while wearing a life jacket

determining the type and extent of the emergency

donning a life jacket

donning and using an immersion suit

ensuring initial actions after leaving ship, and procedures and actions in the water minimise threats to survival

freeing a survival craft of obstructions

identifying hypothermia and providing appropriate treatment

keeping afloat without a life jacket

launching survival craft

operating location devices, including radio equipment

operating radio equipment

operating survival craft equipment

recognising and interpreting muster signals, and taking action that is appropriate to emergency and complies with established procedures

righting an inverted life raft

righting an inverted life raft while wearing a life jacket

safely jumping from a height into water

streaming a drogue or sea-anchor

swimming while wearing a life jacket

taking initial actions on boarding survival craft to enhance chance of survival

timing and sequencing individual actions so they are appropriate to prevailing circumstance and conditions, and minimise potential dangers and threats to survival

using appropriate method to board survival craft that avoids dangers to other survivors.

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:

action to be taken in an emergency

characteristics of survival craft

emergency muster and abandon vessel signals

equipment found in survival craft, its function and the procedures for correct operation

equipment in survival craft

first aid techniques

location of personal life-saving appliances

location of survival equipment on vessel

principles concerning survival including:

value of training and drills

personal protective clothing and equipment

need to be ready for any emergency

actions to be taken when called to survival craft stations

actions to be taken when required to abandon ship

actions to be taken when in the water

actions to be taken when aboard a survival craft

main dangers to survivors

procedures for abandoning vessel

relevant maritime regulations related to required survival equipment on a vessel

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

standard safety symbols

steps to be taken after collision, grounding or other marine casualty and resulting hull damage

survival at sea techniques

techniques for using survival equipment

time required to make distress calls safely

types of emergency situations which may occur such as collision, fire, foundering

types of life-saving appliances normally carried on ships

use of distress signals and penalty for misuse.