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SEA SURVIVAL AND SEA SAFETY
Demonstrate ability to manage crowd
control during a marine emergency
onboard a passenger vessel
level:
5
credit:
5
planned review date:
July 2006
sub-field:
Maritime
purpose:
People credited with this unit standard are able to: plan for
and evaluate the maritime emergency; prepare seagoing
passengers for an emergency; provide assistance to
seagoing passengers in the event of an emergency;
evacuate passengers under emergency conditions.
entry information:
Open.
accreditation option:
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and industry.
moderation option:
A centrally established and directed moderation system has
been established by Competenz.
special notes:
1
Vessel and/or Enterprise procedures refer to the
expected performance required by the enterprise in
which credit for this standard is sought. Such
performance may be specified: vessel operating
procedures as indicated in safe ship management
policies, compliance with manuals, industry guidelines,
checklists. Enactments include Maritime Safety
Authority (MSA) rules and regulations; International
Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and
Watchkeeping for Seafarers, Regulation Section A-V/2
and A-V/3, 1978; and International Convention for the
Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS).
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A maritime emergency may be caused by collision with
another ship or a stationary object, storm, explosion,
fire, rupture of fuel lines, leakage of combustible or
corrosive agents, movement of cargo, structural fatigue,
passenger overloading, vessel breakdown or the result
of a number of the above factors acting in concert.
Having the following effects: injuries, major and minor,
to personnel and passengers.
3
Special needs include any condition or situation which
restricts a passengers ability to move within the limits of
the vessel’s resources.
Elements and Performance Criteria
element 1
Plan for and evaluate the maritime emergency.
performance criteria
1.1
Plan of action is prepared in accordance with the industry guidelines and the
operator’s safe ship management policy.
Range:
may include but is not limited to – design and layout of the vessel,
safety regulations, emergency plans and procedures, roles and
responsibilities of teams and individual crew members, allocation
of tasks and responsibilities, crew adherence and awareness to
procedures, drills.
1.2
Evaluation identifies the type and level of the emergency.
1.3
Evaluation identifies passengers at risk.
Range:
children, elderly, disabled, passengers with medical conditions,
pregnant women, injured passengers.
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Evaluation identifies resources required to deal with the emergency in
accordance with the vessel’s safe ship management procedures.
Range:
may include but is not limited to – availability of personnel and
equipment, use of limited resources and the ability to improvise.
element 2
Prepare seagoing passengers for an emergency.
performance criteria
2.1
Passengers are prepared in conformance with an operator’s safety and
emergency procedures and in compliance with regulatory requirements.
Range:
2.2
Passengers’ and crew responses to change, and stages of change, are dealt
with in accordance with enterprise or industry standards and procedures.
Range:
2.3
passenger handling, emergency and survival procedures, onboard
communications.
may include but is not limited to – awareness to general reactions
of passengers and crew in an emergency; acceptance that an
emergency exists; avoiding panic; non-response to instructions;
looking for relatives, friends and belongings; attempts to escape
danger; moving to upper levels when the vessel is listing.
A secure environment is created in preparation for emergency conditions in
accordance with industry guidelines and the vessel’s safe ship management
procedures.
Range:
may include but is not limited to – clear and concise instructions
and situation reports, convey instructions to principal nationalities
carried on the vessel, encourage exchange of information.
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element 3
Provide assistance to seagoing passengers in the event of an emergency.
performance criteria
3.1
Assistance complies with emergency and survival procedures in conformance
with the vessel’s safe ship’s management procedures and regulatory
requirements.
3.2
Self and others are managed under emergency conditions in conformance with
vessel’s safe ship’s management procedures and regulatory requirements.
Range:
3.3
Communications with crew and passengers under emergency conditions
conform to enterprise procedures, industry guidelines and MSA regulations.
Range:
3.4
passenger and crew responses, personal threat, environmental
crisis.
one to one, small groups, special needs passengers, public
address, loud hailers, signals and alarms.
Post-incident follow up for passengers and crew is instituted in accordance with
enterprise procedures and industry guidelines.
Range:
may include but is not limited to – passenger lists, head count,
complaint handling, incident reports.
element 4
Evacuate passengers under emergency conditions.
performance criteria
4.1
Emergency operation of doors and exits is performed in accordance with
enterprise procedures and the vessel’s safe ship management procedures.
Range:
may include but is not limited to – opening, closing and securing of
bow, stern and side doors, ramps and associated systems.
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4.2
Passengers are evacuated in accordance with the vessel’s abandon ship and
sea survival procedures.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact Competenz qualifications@competenz.org.nz if you wish to suggest
changes to the content of this unit standard.
Please Note
Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority or a delegated interinstitutional body before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards
or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority before
they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for providers wishing to
develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and
assessors, and special resource requirements.
This unit standard is covered by AMAP 0054 which can be accessed at
http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/site/framework/search.html.
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