Operate life-saving appliances

Description

Operate survival craft and their launching appliances and arrangements. Operate life-saving instruments like radio life-saving appliances, satellite EPIRBs, SARTs, immersion suits and thermal protective aids.

Occupations requiring this skill

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Skill demand overview
  • Essential in 4 occupations
  • Optional in 1 occupations
  • Total: 5 occupations
  • Most common in: ISCO major group 8 (Plant and machine operators, and assemblers)

Essential for

  • Ordinary seaman
    Ordinary seamen occupy the lowest rank of a maritime ship's deck crew. They comprise the main labour force on board a boat where they help to operate the ship.…
  • Helmsman
    Helmsmen are members of the crew on the highest rank of the operational level on an inland vessel. They perform various duties concerned with the operation and upkeep of…
  • Matrose
    Matroses are members of the deck department of an inland water transportship. They may work on the helm, on the deck, in the cargo hold and in the engine…
  • Decksman
    A decksman (plural: decksmen) is an unlicensed member of the deck department of an inland vessel. This position is usually the first step on the way to become an…

Optional for

  • Marine chief engineer
    Marine chief engineers are responsible for the entire technical operations of the vessel including engineering, electrical, and mechanical divisions. They are the head of the entir…

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