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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for flight
   • Listen to and follow pre-flight instructions from pilot or boarding controller
   • Undertake pre-flight preparation, including wearing appropriate clothing and personal protective equipment (PPE), such as immersion suits and personal floatation devices (life jacket)
   • Check own gear for suitability, including covered footwear, long trousers, and no loose items or hats
   • Check the supplied safety gear is fitted and worn correctly
2. Board the helicopter
   • Approach helicopter as directed by the pilot or ground crew
   • Put on seat belt and hearing protection
   • Familiarise oneself with the helicopter layout
   • Locate and identify all the safety equipment
   • Locate and identify primary and secondary exits
   • Listen to instructions on emergency egress from the aircraft
3. Prepare for helicopter ditching
   • Facilitate a controlled and safe egress from a ditched helicopter from a knowledge of helicopter layout, including the location and operation of emergency exits and equipment
   • Secure personal items within the cabin prior to the evacuation to facilitate escape
   • Check harnesses, seat belts and life jackets to ensure that they are properly fastened and secured prior to the ditching in order to minimise personal injury or gear failure
   • Adopt the required brace position in order to allow for proper positioning prior to ditching
   • Acknowledge and respond to information communicated by the helicopter crew advising the nature and extent of the situation
4. Undertake evacuation from the helicopter
   • Identify appropriate primary and secondary escape routes in order to determine the locations through which the evacuation will be undertaken
   • Wait until rotors have stopped turning and all movement has ceased
   • Undo, in a controlled sequential manner, seat belts and harnesses to facilitate exit from the helicopter
   • Deploy available safety equipment as instructed in order to assist the individual's sea survival after evacuation has been safely completed
   • Acknowledge and respond to information communicated by the helicopter crew advising the nature and extent of the situation
5. Facilitate recovery process
   • Deploy position indicating devices and use appropriate signalling devices to facilitate the location of personnel by air-sea rescue group
   • Use emergency supplies and equipment to ensure that available supplies are maximised and are able to meet the nature and extent of the emergency
   • Apply appropriate helicopter/vessel rescue techniques to the recovery process
6. Control hazards
   • Identify and act upon potential hazards to minimise injury to personnel or damage to equipment
   • Manage use of life raft by applying knowledge of life raft operation and requirements
   • Apply suitable swimming techniques (whilst wearing life jacket) in the water in order to aid movement and boarding of the deployed life raft
   • Rescue and recover persons in the water, minimising further potential for injury through the appropriate raft boarding and righting techniques
   • Employ suitable techniques, both in the life raft and in the water, in order to delay the onset of hypothermia
   • Assess and treat hypothermia, as required

Range Statement

This field allows for 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.
Regulatory framework	The latest version of all legislation, regulations, industry codes of practice and Australian/international standards, or the version specified by the local regulatory authority, must be used, and include one or more of the following: legislative requirements, including work health and safety (WHS) industry codes of practice and guidelines environmental regulations and guidelines Australian and other standards licence and certification requirements All operations to which this unit applies are subject to stringent health, safety and environment (HSE) requirements, which may be imposed through state/territory or federal legislation, and these must not be compromised at any time. Where there is an apparent conflict between performance criteria and HSE requirements, the HSE requirements take precedence.
Procedures	All operations must be performed in accordance with relevant procedures. Procedures are written, verbal, visual, computer-based or in some other form, include one or more of the following: emergency procedures work instructions standard operating procedures (SOPs) safe work method statements (SWMS) formulas/recipes batch sheets temporary instructions any similar instructions provided for the smooth running of the plant.
Equipment	Equipment includes one or more of the following: helicopter simulators beacons life rafts distress flares life jackets emergency position-indicating radio beacon (EPIRB)
Routine problems	Routine problems must be resolved by applying known solutions. Routine problems are predictable and include one or more of the following: jammed or damaged survival equipment personal injury or injury to others trapped personnel loose or damaged equipment adverse weather conditions Known solutions are drawn from one or more of the following: procedures training remembered experience Non-routine problems must be reported according to according to relevant procedures.
Hazards	Hazards include one or more of the following: heat, smoke, darkness, dust or other atmospheric hazards electricity equipment failures equipment or product mass noise, rotational equipment or vibration unauthorised personnel sharp edges, protrusions or obstructions slippery surfaces, spills or leaks extreme weather drowning and hypothermia other hazards that might arise

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria, and include the ability to:

correctly fit and wear required personal emergency equipment

respond instantly to pilot commands

deploy life rafts or other emergency equipment

orient oneself whilst upside down under water

remove doors and/or windows from the aircraft

extricate oneself from the aircraft

correctly inflate life jacket

locate and gain access to life raft where deployed

locate other survivors and assist them

apply rescue and recover procedures

assess and treat hypothermia.

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence must be provided that demonstrates knowledge of:

helicopter escape techniques

integral equipment functions to the level needed to act rationally and recognise and resolve problems

hazards boarding and departing from helicopters under normal and emergency situations

inverted and submerged helicopter escape techniques

life jacket operation

emergency equipment deployment techniques

life raft operation and deployment

rescue and recovery techniques

hypothermia prevention and reduction techniques (delaying and offsetting).

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