This refresher course provides skills and knowledge to follow fisheries observer protocols, basic knowledge and skills for at-sea duties, health and safety, firefighting and survival at sea.

 

What will students learn?

Basic knowledge and skills for at-sea duties, health and safety, firefighting and survival at sea.

 

Learning outcomes

After participation in this course, students will have refreshed their knowledge and skills relating to:

• Work on a commercial fishing vessel 
• Knowledge of fire prevention and limitation and extinguish small fires on board a vessel
• The effects of shiftwork and strategies to manage them
• Basic knife skills in the seafood industry
• Recognising sexual harassment and describing ways of responding
• Knowledge of the impact of alcohol and other drugs
• Knowledge of abandon ship procedures and sea survival techniques
• Maintaining personal hygiene and use hygienic work practices while working with seafood
• Recognising correct construction and rigging for a pilot ladder
• Correct technique for boarding a vessel using a pilot ladder
• Strategies for de-escalating situations on board
• Correct response for trauma care
• Assessing candidate performance
• Current developments within MBIE, MPI and MNZ as they pertain to the work of observers