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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for abandonment of the offshore facility
   • Acknowledge alarm systems and proceed to muster and/or evacuation area
   • Make evacuation area safe to ensure likelihood of personal injury or equipment damage is minimised
   • Select and apply appropriate personal flotation device (life jacket) and other equipment
   • Prepare for evacuation by applying appropriate methods and means of evacuation
2. Abandon the offshore facility
   • Deploy safety/rescue equipment in a safe and controlled manner before commencing abandonment
   • Abandon the facility in accordance with relevant safety requirements and procedures
   • Enter life raft or other survival craft
   • Depart promptly from the facility using agreed techniques and in a safe and controlled manner
   • Utilise safe water entry procedures
3. Manage the survival process
   • 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 (or other survival craft) and in the water, in order to delay the onset of hypothermia
   • Assess and treat hypothermia as required
4. Facilitate the recovery process
   • Deploy position indicating devices and use 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 helicopter/vessel rescue techniques to the recovery process
5. Control hazards
   • Identify hazards relevant to the abandonment process
   • Assess the risks arising from those hazards
   • Implement measures to control those risks in line with procedures and duty of care

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: life rafts and life raft deployment devices emergency descent devices position indicating devices signalling devices scramble nets and ladders helicopter lifting strops rescue harnesses
Routine problems	Routine problems must be resolved by applying known solutions. Routine problems are predictable and include one or more of the following: failure of safety equipment interaction with heat or debris prolonged exposure to the elements risk of hypothermia 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, or other atmospheric hazards structural hazards structural collapse equipment failures flammability and explosivity hazardous products and materials unauthorised personnel sharp edges, protrusions or obstructions slippery surfaces, spills or leaks extreme weather injury from abandonment hypothermia drowning sunburn/sunstroke dehydration exacerbation of existing medical conditions 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:

recognise evacuation alarm

select and use appropriate equipment

prepare for evacuation and evacuate according to procedures and safety requirements

deploy life rafts or other emergency equipment

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:

offshore facility abandonment procedures

safe water entry procedures

life jacket operation

correct life raft and other survival craft deployment

life raft operation and management

boarding and righting a life raft

safety and emergency equipment deployment techniques

safety and emergency equipment operation

use of life jackets

hypothermia prevention and reduction techniques (delaying and offsetting)

rescue and recovery techniques.

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