Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
SISCAQU002 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Perform basic water rescues
Version 1.0
Issue Date: May 2024
Qualification | - |
Unit of Competency | SISCAQU002 - Perform basic water rescues |
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Employability Skills | |||
Learning Outcomes and Application | This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to perform basic water rescues in indoor or outdoor aquatic venues. The unit applies to all workers who may be required to perform basic water rescues in a range of situations, including swimming pools. Work is performed according to accepted best practice principles of aquatic rescues, relevant legislation and organisational policies. Specific licensing requirements relating to this competency, including requirements for refresher training, should be obtained from the relevant state/territory work health and safety regulatory authority. | ||
Duration and Setting | X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting. Skills must be demonstrated in: a workplace or simulated aquatic facility or environment such as an indoor pool, outdoor pool, or shallow water venue. Assessment must ensure use of: pool safety equipment: flotation devices first aid facilities and equipment ropes suitable to perform a reach rescue participants to enable demonstration of all water rescue techniques and scenarios, these can be: participants in a workplace, or individuals who participate in project activities, role plays or simulated activities, set up for the purpose of assessment, within a training organisation. Assessment activities that allow the individual to: demonstrate water rescue techniques and broader emergency responses in required emergency situation timeframes communicate with relevant personnel and emergency response services. Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors. |
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Competency Field | Aquatics |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
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Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Identify and evaluate aquatic emergencies. |
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Element: Apply basic water rescue principles. |
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Element: Communicate incident details. |
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Element: Identify and evaluate aquatic emergencies. |
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Element: Apply basic water rescue principles. |
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Element: Communicate incident details. |
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