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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Launch survival craft and rescue boats
   • Preparations for the launch of the survival craft or rescue boat are made according to manufacturer instructions and organisational procedures
2. Launch strategy is adopted appropriate to the prevailing circumstances and conditions
3. Launching equipment is operated according to manufacturer instructions and organisational procedures
4. Survival craft or rescue boat is launched smoothly according to accepted safety practices and standards
5. Operate survival craft and rescue boats
   • Pre-start checks are conducted on the engine
6. Engine is started according to manufacturer instructions and organisational procedures
7. Orders are given for survivors to board the survival craft
8. Survival craft is cleared of the vessel and operated according to manufacturer instructions and organisational procedures
9. Survival craft is manoeuvred appropriately for the prevailing circumstances and conditions
10. Operate lifesaving and survival equipment
    • Location and accessibility of all lifesaving and survival equipment is established
11. Survival equipment is checked and operated according to manufacturer instructions and organisational procedures
12. Lifesaving clothing is correctly donned and used according to manufacturer instructions and organisational procedures
13. Strategies are implemented to counter threats to survival according to accepted survival practice
14. Recover survival craft
    • Persons are disembarked from the survival craft according to organisational procedures
15. Survival craft is recovered according to manufacturer instructions and organisational procedures
16. Survival craft and equipment are checked for signs of damage and faulty equipment
17. Identified faulty equipment or damage is reported according to organisational procedures
18. Organise abandon vessel musters and drills
    • Abandon vessel musters and drills are arranged according to regulatory requirements and organisational procedures
19. Instruction is provided to others on organisational procedures and the correct use of lifesaving equipment
20. Musters and drills are reviewed against objectives
21. Reporting obligations are completed according to regulatory requirements and organisational procedures
22. Risk control processes are implemented
23. Assume responsibility for survival of crew and passengers
    • Survivors are checked for signs of hypothermia or other injuries and first aid is applied, where necessary
24. Water and food are rationed
25. Lookout for vessels and aircraft in the vicinity is maintained and distress signals are released on sighting
26. Instructions given by rescue personnel are followed to safely access rescue craft
27. Persons are disembarked from survival craft or rescue boat according to organisational procedures
28. Survival craft or rescue boat is recovered and checked for signs of damage

Range Statement

Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment.

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria on at least one occasion and include: acting appropriately in the prevailing circumstances and conditions in response to abandon ship and survival situations according to accepted safety practices and standards communicating effectively with others, as required, when operating survival craft and ancillary survival equipment conducting inspections of other survival equipment at intervals determined by the safety management system (SMS) conducting tests and pre-start checks of equipment at intervals determined by the SMS giving correct commands for launching and boarding survival craft and clearing the ship interpreting and applying International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) practices and regulations launching and operating various types of survival craft operating off-load and on-load release devices safely organising abandon vessel drills reading and interpreting instructions relevant to the safe operation of lifesaving appliances onboard a vessel recognising and interpreting muster signals, and taking action that is appropriate to emergency and complies with established procedures recovering survival craft and rescue boats and resetting release devices rowing and steering a survival craft and rescue boat selecting and using appropriate lifesaving appliances and communications equipment using a compass using portable radio equipment, pyrotechnics and other signalling equipment using survival craft equipment, including rigging devices to aid location.

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of: actions to be taken when aboard a survival craft, including: apportionment of food and water initial actions routines for survival use of equipment actions to be taken to maximise detectability and location of survival craft construction and outfit of survival craft and rescue boats dangers associated with the use of on-load release devices drills in launching and recovering rescue boats drills in launching life rafts, including: boarding a life raft from the water davit-launched life rafts throw-overboard life rafts emergency muster abandon vessel signals and public address (PA) system evacuation and recovery of survival craft and rescue boats, including: clearing the ships side and actions to be taken launching launching survival craft and rescue boats in rough sea marshalling life rafts and rescuing survivors from the sea recovery of rescue boats in rough sea recovery of survival craft and rescue boats first aid and management of injured persons, including: first aid kit resuscitation handling of survival craft and rescue boats in rough weather, including beaching helicopter assistance and pick-up, including: communicating with helicopter evacuating from ship and survival craft International Code of Signals (ICS), purpose and meaning of signals International Maritime Organization (IMO) safety symbols International Safety Management (ISM) Code, SMS plans, procedures, checklists and instructions launching arrangements, including: boat davits float-free arrangements free-fall life raft davits marine evacuation systems rescue boat davits lifeboat engine and accessories maintenance procedures for survival craft and rescue boats manoeuvring characteristics of survival craft and rescue boats Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) amendments 2014 muster list operation of survival craft and rescue boats, their launching appliances and arrangements and their equipment principles concerning survival, including: actions to be taken when aboard a survival craft actions to be taken when called to survival craft stations actions to be taken when in the water actions to be taken when required to abandon ship main dangers to survivors training, drills and operational readiness procedures and sequences for launching, carrying out pre-start engine checks and operating survival craft and rescue boats in a variety of sea and weather conditions procedures for correctly operating and using lifesaving appliances and personal safety equipment on vessels and survival craft relevant sections of applicable maritime regulations relevant work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) legislation rescue boat outboard engine SOLAS regulations strategies, including: beaching survival craft deploying exposure cover on an open lifeboat handling survival craft in rough weather maximising detectability of survival craft rationing food and water using rescue boat to marshal life rafts using rescue boat to retrieve survivors in the sea symptoms of hypothermia, its prevention and treatment threats to survival on abandonment of a vessel and appropriate strategies for countering these threats typical manoeuvring and engine characteristics for survival craft types of emergency situations which may occur and precautions, including: adverse reaction of dangerous goods and hazardous bulk materials collision explosion fire foundering shifting of cargo stranding types of emergencies that require launching and operation of rescue boats, including: abandon ship man overboard marshalling of survival craft towing and rescue of survival craft from a shipwreck types of survival craft, including: lifeboats life rafts rescue boats ways of maximising detectability and location of survival craft using radio lifesaving appliances, pyrotechnic distress signals, satellite emergency position indicating radio beacons (EPIRBs) and search and rescue transponders (SARTs).

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