Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan and prepare for navigation
- Access, interpret and apply navigation documentation and ensure the work activity is compliant
- Obtain, interpret, clarify and confirm navigation information, work requirements and travel details
- Select maps, equipment and navigation aids, and check for accuracy, currency and operational effectiveness
- Identify faults/errors in maps and equipment, and record, report and address issues
- Establish and maintain communication plan
- Plan the route
- Assess and select route to destination, consider information from map/plan/field observations
- Examine maps, and identify relevant symbols, information and navigation data
- Identify and locate current position in the field, on map/plan using landmarks and key geographical features
- Identify and locate required destination on map/plan
- Review the map route/plan, field observations, and local knowledge
- Identify potential hazards and plan risk control measures
- Measure and estimate distance to destination using map scale for selected route
- Document in writing planned route on a navigation data sheet
- Conduct navigation
- Plan and prepare for navigation
- Access, interpret and apply navigation documentation and ensure the work activity is compliant
- Obtain, interpret, clarify and confirm navigation information, work requirements and travel details
- Select maps, equipment and navigation aids, and check for accuracy, currency and operational effectiveness
- Identify faults/errors in maps and equipment, and record, report and address issues
- Establish and maintain communication plan
- Plan the route
- Assess and select route to destination, consider information from map/plan/field observations
- Examine maps, and identify relevant symbols, information and navigation data
- Identify and locate current position in the field, on map/plan using landmarks and key geographical features
- Identify and locate required destination on map/plan
- Review the map route/plan, field observations, and local knowledge
- Identify potential hazards and plan risk control measures
- Measure and estimate distance to destination using map scale for selected route
- Document in writing planned route on a navigation data sheet
- Conduct navigation