Application
Completion of this and other diving units may lead to further accreditation in occupational diving by industry and/or regulatory authorities. Check with the relevant industry or regulatory body for specific requirements. All enterprise or workplace procedures and activities are carried out according to relevant government regulations, licensing and other compliance requirements, including occupational health and safety (OHS) guidelines, and maritime and occupational diver codes of practice and procedures. Equipment operation, maintenance, repairs and calibrations are undertaken in a safe manner that conforms to manufacturer instructions. Appropriate personal protectiveequipment (PPE) is selected, checked, used and maintained. |
Prerequisites
Apply first aid | ||
Elements and Performance Criteria
ELEMENT | PERFORMANCE CRITERIA |
1. Perform surface standby-diver activities for divers using SSBA | 1.1. Surface standby-diver activities during operations conform to appropriate emergency/rescue procedures, according to the equipment used. 1.2. A state of readiness to ensure prompt action in the event of an emergency is maintained at all times. |
2. Perform in-water standby-diver activities using SSBA | 2.1. In-water standby-diver activities during operation conform to appropriate emergency/rescue procedures, according to the equipment used. 2.2. Communication lines are maintained with the surface team to ensure all necessary rescue action is undertaken. |
3. Employ correct techniques for emergency situations when using SSBA | 3.1. Assistance is given in the recovery of an unconscious or injured diver from the surface to dry land or the deck of a dive platform in a manner that prevents further injury. 3.2. Ascent in an emergency situation is managed by controlling buoyancy, while identifying an emergency situation where shedding weights may be necessary. |
Required Skills
Required skills |
applying emergency first aid procedures applying emergency/rescue procedures according to the situation dressing appropriately for standby-diver duties and maintaining a state of readiness free ascending correctly, completing proper drills during ascent and on the surface giving expired-air resuscitation to a surfaced diver while in the water maintaining communication with diver's tender and following instructions recovering a diver in distress to the surface using a safety line to locate a diver in distress. Literacy skills used for: completing 'dive accident medical information' forms following an emergency action plan keeping records reading dive tables reading diver's first aid literature reading regulations and industry guidelines. Numeracy skills used for: making calculations involving pressure, volume and temperature relationships using decompression information while underwater. |
Required knowledge |
effective methods to handle a range of physical emergencies emergencies that may occur during diving operations in the seafood and ornamental/aquarium industry free-ascent practices and associated dangers and limitations need for and limitations of shedding weights in particular emergency situations procedures related to the use of equipment in relation to identified emergencies risk of hyperthermia or hypothermia when fully dressed as a standby diver suit inflation and buoyancy compensator inflation procedures treatment of medical emergencies. |
Evidence Required
The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria, required skills and knowledge, range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package. | |
Overview of assessment | |
Critical aspects for assessment evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit | Assessment must confirm the ability to: apply emergency/rescue procedures to: conscious diver unconscious diver communicate and follow instructions free ascend correctly and safely perform standby-diver duties recover a distressed diver and apply first aid undertake in-water surface resuscitation. Assessment must confirm knowledge of: hyperthermia and hypothermia inflation procedures and free-ascent practices physical emergency procedures shedding weights in emergency situations treatment of medical emergencies. |
Context of and specific resources for assessment | Assessment is to be conducted at the workplace or in a simulated work environment. Resources may include: diving equipment for SSBA diving operations as listed in the range of variables suitable diving environment. |
Method of assessment | The following assessment methods are suggested: observation of practical demonstration practical exercises written or oral short-answer testing. |
Guidance information for assessment | This unit may be assessed holistically with other diving units. |
Range Statement
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. | |
Relevant government regulations, licensing and other compliance requirements may include: | business or workplace operations, policies and practices maritime and occupational diving operations, safety at sea OHS hazard identification, risk assessment and control. |
OHS guidelines may include: | appropriate workplace provision of first aid kits codes of practice, regulations and/or guidance notes which may apply in a jurisdiction or industry sector enterprise-specific OHS procedures, policies or standards hazard and risk assessment of workplace, maintenance activities and control measures induction or training of staff in relevant OHS procedures and/or requirements to allow them to carry out their duties in a safe manner OHS training register safe systems and procedures for outdoor work, including protection from solar radiation, confined space entry and the protection of people in the workplace systems and procedures for the safe maintenance of property, machinery and equipment, including hydraulics and exposed moving parts the appropriate use, maintenance and storage of PPE. |
PPE may include. | buoyancy vest or personal floatation device (PFD) personal locator beacon or Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) protective outdoor clothing for tropical conditions sun protection (e.g. sun hat, sunscreen and sunglasses). |
Operations may include: | cleaning and maintaining display tanks collecting aquatic animals: abalone beche-de-mer broodstock or seedstock crayfish, lobsters and crabs ornamental fish, live, rock, corals and other invertebrate other molluscs pearls sea urchins and sponges seaweed or aquatic plants collecting dead stock collecting environmental water samples eradicating or releasing predators from a beach from a jetty from a vessel installing, servicing and maintaining ponds, farm environment, cages and associated equipment retrieving lost tools and equipment tending aquaculture animals. |
Equipment may include: | catch bags communication systems: topside and diver power supply tape recorders and tapes tools breathing apparatus: demand type (band mask and helmet) free-flow type buoyancy compensator depth-measuring instruments dive computer diver's suits or clothing, wet, dry or warmed diving watch gauges main and reserve air supplies self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA) safety and emergency: first aid oxygen bail out bottle spare air safety harness shot-line SSBA surface-supply compressor unit surface-supply panel umbilicals weights, fins and masks. |
Emergency may include: | entanglement entrapment injury malfunctioning equipment medical predator. |
Communication may include: | hand signals lifeline signals slate voice. |
Assistance may include: | disentangle in-water surface resuscitation remove cause of entrapment rescue: conscious diver unconscious diver. |
Ascent may include: | buoyancy compensator lifeline shedding weights stage underwater propulsion device with or without air supply. |
Shedding weights may include: | mid-water seabed surface. |
Sectors
Unit sector | Diving operations |
Employability Skills
This unit contains employability skills. |
Licensing Information
Refer to Unit Descriptor