Elements and Performance Criteria
- Use safety equipment
- Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
- Ensure nature, type, location, accessibility and serviceability of safety equipment is known and understood by all personnel on board
- Conduct briefing of personnel before departure
- Use safety equipment in a manner and purpose for which it was designed and appropriate to the emergency or incident
- Raise alarms
- Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
- Ensure nature, type, location, accessibility and serviceability of safety equipment is known and understood by all personnel on board
- Conduct briefing of personnel before departure
- Use safety equipment in a manner and purpose for which it was designed and appropriate to the emergency or incident
- Communicate alarm to on-board personnel
- Use recognised distress signals to indicate need of assistance
- Deal with on-board emergency
- Implement procedures to combat emergency and protect persons on board
- Identify position, record and communicate
- Provide injured persons with assistance
- Maintain communication with rescuers
- Undertake preparation for abandoning the boat, as required
- Communicate cessation of emergency to appropriate personnel
- Assist others in distress
- Identify nature of assistance required
- Determine capability to safely assist or relay emergency taking into account own safety and physical proximity to the emergency incident
- Prepare for appropriate response to the emergency and implement
- Communicate cessation of emergency incident to appropriate personnel