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Title
Instruct clients on rescue diving
Level
6
Credits
5
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to instruct
clients on: diving physiology; diver rescue skills; and the use of
supplemental oxygen.
Classification
Diving > Diving - Instruction
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Critical health and
safety prerequisites
Unit 8274, Instruct recreational divers in open water, or
demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills.
Explanatory notes
1
The buddy system is where scuba divers dive in pairs while maintaining contact with
each other at all times.
2
Industry technical and safety criteria are specified in the training manuals of the
agencies approved by the Sport Fitness and Recreation Industry Training
Organisation (Sfrito).
3
All workplace diving practice must comply with the requirements of the Health and
Safety in Employment Act 1992 and Health and Safety in Employment Regulations
1995. All practice must also comply with Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and
Compensation Act 2001 the Occupational Safety and Health guidelines for
Occupational Diving and the Dangerous Goods (Class 2 – Gases) Regulations 1980
and its amendments.
4
All training providers assessing against any instruction diving unit standard must
ensure that the training is conducted by a qualified instructor currently registered with
one of the listed agencies: National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI),
Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), Scuba Schools International
(SSI), Confédération Mondiale des Activitiés Subaquatiques (CMAS), International
Diving Educators Association (IDEA), or an equivalent, determined by Sfrito, that
meets the requirements of the Recreational Scuba Training Council (RSTC), the
candidate’s instructor must provide training in accordance with the standards and
procedures of the respective training agency.
This unit standard is
expiring
Outcomes and evidence requirements
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Outcome 1
Instruct clients on diving physiology.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Instruction identifies the effects on divers of partial or changing pressure.
Range
1.2
nitrogen, oxygen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, toxicity,
absorption.
Instruction identifies dive related problems.
Range
near drowning, hypothermia, cramps, exhaustion, decompression
illnesses, panic, barotrauma, shallow water blackout, nitrogen
narcosis, contaminated air.
Outcome 2
Instruct clients on diver rescue skills.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that first aid is administered quickly
and efficiently during simulated dive incidents, and that the first aid administered
matches the condition.
Range
2.2
near drowning, hypothermia, hyperthermia, cramps, exhaustion,
decompression illnesses, panic, barotraumas, shallow water
blackout, nitrogen narcosis, contaminated air, minor aquatic life
injuries, respiratory and cardiac arrest.
This unit standard is
expiring
Range
ascent, searches, equipment removal, rescue breathing, tows,
Instruction ensures that self rescues and buddy system rescues are completed
according to industry technical and safety criteria.
calling expert assistance, exits, first aid.
Outcome 3
Instruct clients on the use of supplemental oxygen.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that prepared oxygen equipment
meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Range
demand valve or free-flow systems, selection of face masks, fitting
regulator to cylinder, flow rates.
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3.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that oxygen use complies with the
standards specified in the Dangerous Goods (Class 2 – Gases) Regulations
1980 and its amendments.
Range
3.3
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equipment modifications, explosion, fire, handling, charging,
testing.
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the administration of
supplemental oxygen meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Replacement information
This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28418.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
23 September 1996
31 December 2016
Revision
2
17 July 2001
31 December 2016
Review
3
26 July 2005
31 December 2016
Review
4
20 November 2014
31 December 2016
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0099
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
This unit standard is
expiring
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016