Elements and Performance Criteria
- Manage crew during fishing operations
- Marshall sufficient qualified and competent crew members at the worksite before starting operations
- Ensure crew members are fully informed, by clear, timely and accurate communication, of their responsibilities during fishing operations
- Ensure all crew are fitted with personal protective equipment
- Coordinate activities into a sequence that ensures safe and efficient operation
- Identify and rectify unsafe, environmentally hazardous or inefficient practices
- Recognise abnormal situations and instruct crew promptly and clearly to minimise the danger to crew and vessel and the disruption to operations
- Control the vessel during fishing operations
- Maintain safety of the vessel and crew during fishing operations
- Orient vessel according to fishing operations, wind, aquatic environmental conditions and current to maximise safety
- Position fishing operation to minimise interference with others
- Control vessel speed according to fishing operations and prevailing weather and aquatic environmental conditions to maximise safety
- Minimise effects of abnormal situations on crew, environment and vessel safety, and disruption to operations
- Maximise vessel stability during all stages of the fishing operation
- Monitor compliance with regulations during fishing operations