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Evidence Guide: POLSAR007 - Assess search and rescue requirements

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Tips for gathering evidence to demonstrate your skills

The important thing to remember when gathering evidence is that the more evidence the better - that is, the more evidence you gather to demonstrate your skills, the more confident an assessor can be that you have learned the skills not just at one point in time, but are continuing to apply and develop those skills (as opposed to just learning for the test!). Furthermore, one piece of evidence that you collect will not usualy demonstrate all the required criteria for a unit of competency, whereas multiple overlapping pieces of evidence will usually do the trick!

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POLSAR007 - Assess search and rescue requirements

What evidence can you provide to prove your understanding of each of the following citeria?

Gather information

  1. Collate information and intelligence to assess situation.
  2. Identify points of contact to gather information.
  3. Evaluate whether situation is a search and rescue incident to determine response.
  4. Disseminate information to inform stakeholders.
Collate information and intelligence to assess situation.

Completed
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Identify points of contact to gather information.

Completed
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Evaluate whether situation is a search and rescue incident to determine response.

Completed
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Disseminate information to inform stakeholders.

Completed
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Assess search and rescue situation

  1. Assess situation to determine responsibility for search and rescue incident.
  2. Conduct appreciation of search and rescue incident to identify courses of action.
  3. Conduct urgency assessment to determine level of response.
  4. Communicate responsibility for coordination and control of search and rescue response.
Assess situation to determine responsibility for search and rescue incident.

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conduct appreciation of search and rescue incident to identify courses of action.

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conduct urgency assessment to determine level of response.

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Communicate responsibility for coordination and control of search and rescue response.

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gather information

  1. Collate information and intelligence to assess situation.
  2. Identify points of contact to gather information.
  3. Evaluate whether situation is a search and rescue incident to determine response.
  4. Disseminate information to inform stakeholders.
Collate information and intelligence to assess situation.

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Identify points of contact to gather information.

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evaluate whether situation is a search and rescue incident to determine response.

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disseminate information to inform stakeholders.

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assess search and rescue situation

  1. Assess situation to determine responsibility for search and rescue incident.
  2. Conduct appreciation of search and rescue incident to identify courses of action.
  3. Conduct urgency assessment to determine level of response.
  4. Communicate responsibility for coordination and control of search and rescue response.
Assess situation to determine responsibility for search and rescue incident.

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conduct appreciation of search and rescue incident to identify courses of action.

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conduct urgency assessment to determine level of response.

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Communicate responsibility for coordination and control of search and rescue response.

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assessed

Teacher: ___________________________________ Date: _________

Signature: ________________________________________________

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Instructions to Assessors

Evidence Guide

ELEMENTS

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Elements describe the essential outcomes

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. Where bold italicised text is used, further information is detailed in the range of conditions section.

1. Gather information

1.1 Collate information and intelligence to assess situation.

1.2 Identify points of contact to gather information.

1.3 Evaluate whether situation is a search and rescue incident to determine response.

1.4 Disseminate information to inform stakeholders.

2. Assess search and rescue situation

2.1 Assess situation to determine responsibility for search and rescue incident.

2.2 Conduct appreciation of search and rescue incident to identify courses of action.

2.3 Conduct urgency assessment to determine level of response.

2.4 Communicate responsibility for coordination and control of search and rescue response.

Required Skills and Knowledge

ELEMENTS

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Elements describe the essential outcomes

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. Where bold italicised text is used, further information is detailed in the range of conditions section.

1. Gather information

1.1 Collate information and intelligence to assess situation.

1.2 Identify points of contact to gather information.

1.3 Evaluate whether situation is a search and rescue incident to determine response.

1.4 Disseminate information to inform stakeholders.

2. Assess search and rescue situation

2.1 Assess situation to determine responsibility for search and rescue incident.

2.2 Conduct appreciation of search and rescue incident to identify courses of action.

2.3 Conduct urgency assessment to determine level of response.

2.4 Communicate responsibility for coordination and control of search and rescue response.

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the candidate must demonstrate evidence of performance of the following on at least one occasion.

gathering and evaluating information relating to potential search and rescue situations

evaluating search and rescue situations

undertaking risk and urgency assessments

determining search and rescue requirements

communicating with stakeholders

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the depth of knowledge demonstrated must be appropriate to the job context of the candidate.

Commonwealth, national, state and territory legislation relating to search and rescue.

national guidelines relating to search and rescue

jurisdictional policies and procedures relating to search and rescue

jurisdictional search and rescue systems

roles and responsibilities for responding to search and rescue situations

search and rescue terminology

search and rescue emergency stages

common characteristics of search and rescue situations

distress and emergency signals

process for conducting urgency assessments

information collection techniques

jurisdictional information management systems

jurisdictional information sources

resources to facilitate search and rescue responses