Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify survey requirements
- Relevant standards for vessel equipment and operational systems are identified, accessed and incorporated into survey plan as required
- Survey scope and depth is confirmed against relevant standards and organisational requirements
- Operational limits, certificate of operations and previous certificates of survey are reviewed for special conditions or equivalent solutions
- Equipment and operational system requirements for survey and range of variations are accurately identified, selected and tested for serviceability
- Prepare for survey
- Operational systems to be surveyed for type, size and nature of vessel operations are accurately identified, reviewed and incorporated into survey plan
- Relationships between different operational systems are accurately interpreted and items to be surveyed are noted in survey plan
- Maintenance records are obtained and reviewed to confirm survey scope
- Conduct periodic survey of operational systems
- Survey of operational systems is carried out according to regulatory requirements
- Primary and secondary operational systems and their components are surveyed according to survey schedule
- Changes to operational equipment or equivalent solutions are identified and examined for fitness both in or out of water as required by survey schedule
- Report and act on non-compliance
- Non-compliance is detected, recorded and reported according to regulatory and organisational requirements
- Risk arising from non-compliance is detected, reported and communicated to relevant personnel
- Relevant provisions of legislation appropriate to level of risk detected are identified and followed
- Appropriate reports and documentation related to survey are developed and managed according to regulatory and organisational requirements