Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan and prepare for survey task
- Relevant standards for vessel hull and superstructure are accurately identified and accessed to support survey task
- Vessel survey regime is identified and relevant regulatory requirements, organisational requirements and procedures for survey scope are accessed and reviewed
- Vessel survey regime is confirmed against regulatory and organisational requirements
- Survey scope and depth is confirmed against relevant regulatory and organisational requirements
- Survey purpose, objectives and variations are identified with relevant personnel
- Operational limits, certificate of operations and previous certificates of survey are reviewed to identify and take into consideration any special conditions, equivalent solutions, specific areas of operations and other regulatory limitations, exceptions or conditions that may impact on survey task
- Survey equipment and tools to carry out survey are accurately identified, selected and checked prior to survey task
- Confirm features of vessel and approved plans
- Types of hull machinery and systems common to domestic commercial vessels are accurately identified and regulatory or additional standards are accessed and reviewed for use in survey
- Common materials used in hull construction and superstructure are identified and regulatory or additional standards are accessed and reviewed for use in survey
- Set of approved plans is obtained and read prior to start of survey
- Conduct non periodic vessel surveys
- Type of survey is determined and full preparations are made to ensure successful completion of survey
- Vessel survey is carried out according to scope of survey, regulatory requirements and approved plans
- Changes to operational equipment or equivalent solutions are identified and examined for fitness both in or out of water as required by survey schedule
- Non conformance to approved plans or regulatory requirements are identified and appropriate follow-up action is carried out
- Vessel plans and supporting survey documentation are altered according to organisational and regulatory practices to ensure they reflect ‘as-built’ vessel
- Vessel systems are surveyed to ensure they meet statutory requirements
- Report and act on non-compliance
- Non-compliance is detected, recorded and reported according to regulatory and organisational requirements
- Specialist support services are identified and sourced as appropriate
- Risks arising from detected non-compliance are reported and communicated to relevant personnel
- Relevant provisions of legislation appropriate to level of risk detected are identified and followed
- Appropriate reports and documentation relating to survey are developed and managed according to organisational and regulatory requirements