Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine rescue requirements and prepare for rescue.
- Assess situation, identify hazards promptly, assess risks and manage to avoid injury to self and others.
- Determine appropriate rescue methods and techniques for situation, according to degree of urgency and condition of persons in need of rescue.
- Select rescue equipment according to requirements.
- Assess abilities, establish a chain of command and allocate roles and responsibilities to others.
- Provide clear and concise instructions and confirm rescue crew understanding of roles, communication protocols and rescue actions.
- Implement rescue operations according to organisational policies and procedures for emergency response.
- Rescue multiple persons from moving water.
- Prioritise rescue of persons according to need, and manage rescue crew response.
- Monitor hazards, changing circumstances and actions of rescuers and provide ongoing direction.
- Participate in rescue in and out of water, changing position as required, to effect rescue of multiple swimmers.
- Provide clear and concise instructions to rescuers and rescuees throughout rescue.
- Utilise reach and throw techniques to rescue multiple swimmers in moving water.
- Release entrapped persons, utilising methods suitable for situation.
- Use safe contact methods, using craft, to rescue and transport a swimmer.
- Provide both tethered and supported tows to nearest safe landing.
- Select and use equipment and methods appropriate to situation to retrieve abandoned craft and equipment.
- Use mechanical advantage systems.
- Determine need for use of mechanical advantage systems.
- Identify and promptly establish type appropriate for the rescue or recovery situation.
- Verify manufacturers' recommendations, equipment limitations and safety margins; rig and use equipment accordingly.
- Modify system, as required, to increase efficiency and communicate system changes to others assisting.
- Debrief and complete reports.