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MEM50002 Current

Application

This unit of competency defines the skills and knowledge required to identify risks and safely work on and move around vessels – for sales, service or repair – on and out of the water and applies to recreational vessels in both land and water environments and in workplaces in which vessels are built, repaired, stored, sold and transported.

This unit could be assessed in conjunction with unit MEM13019 Undertake work health and safety activities in the workplace and unit MEM13003 Work safely with industrial chemicals and materials.

Band: A

Unit Weight: 1

What You'll Learn

1. Identify safe access methods and working platform

  • 1.1 Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs)
  • 1.2 Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
  • 1.3 Use appropriate access methods to gain access to the work location
  • 1.4 Inspect work platforms to confirm that they are appropriate for the purpose, are located in a correct manner and comply with any regulatory controls

2. Move around and work safely on recreational vessels

  • 2.1 Identify risks and hazards from observation, including confined spaces, and identify workplace approved risk controls
  • 2.2 Select work methods and tools appropriate for the task
  • 2.3 Identify and use appropriate engineering controls
  • 2.4 Select and use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
  • 2.5 Use appropriate warning signs and signals
  • 2.6 Minimise, control and dispose of work residues in accordance with SOPs
  • 2.7 Maintain worksite in a clean and tidy state using appropriate housekeeping methods

3. Follow emergency procedures for incidents in the marine environment

  • 3.1 Use appropriate responses in reaction to incidents and accidents
  • 3.2 Use communication systems and methods to convey emergency messages
  • 3.3 Follow drills for fire, explosion, toxic/dangerous spills and leakage, personal illness or injury, man overboard, collision or vessel damage

Assessment Requirements

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria on at least two (2) occasions and include:

following work instructions, appropriate emergency procedures, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and safe work practices

identifying and interpreting safety signage, labelling and placards; carrying out risk assessment and identifying work health and safety (WHS) hazards and risks; and implementing appropriate risk control measures and procedures

selecting and using the most appropriate engineering controls, including proper manual handling techniques and personal protection equipment (PPE) suitable to the task being performed

implementing appropriate workplace housekeeping methods

performing emergency procedures for incidents in the marine environment

using communication systems and methods to convey emergency messages.

Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate the required knowledge for this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of:

safe work practices and procedures and use of PPE

testing and maintenance of PPE

dangerous goods classification and labelling/placarding

inherent hazardous properties of the chemicals used

interpretation of the relevant safety data sheets (SDS)

basic fire-fighting procedures

site-specific emergency plan procedures

spill confinement procedures

dangerous occurrence (near miss) reporting procedures

regulatory and legislative requirements.

Assessment Conditions

Assessors must:

have vocational competency in working safely on marine craft at least to the level being assessed with relevant industry knowledge and experience

satisfy the assessor requirements in the Standards for Registered Training Organisations 2015 or its replacement and comply with the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011, its replacement or equivalent legislation covering VET regulation in a non-referring state/territory as the case requires

Where possible assessment must occur in operational workplace situations. Where this is not possible or where personal safety or environmental damage are limiting factors, assessment must occur in a sufficiently rigorous simulated environment that reflects realistic operational workplace conditions. This must cover all aspects of workplace performance, including environment, task skills, task management skills, contingency management skills and job role environment skills

Conditions for assessment must include access to all tools, equipment, materials and documentation required, including relevant workplace procedures, product and manufacturing specifications

Assessment processes and techniques must be appropriate to the language, literacy and numeracy requirements of the work being performed and the needs of the candidate.

Foundation Skills

  • text: This section describes those required skills (reading, writing, oral communication and numeracy) that are essential to workplace performance in this unit of competency. Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.

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Last updated from training.gov.au: 25 February 2026