This unit of competency covers the skills and knowledge required to establish and implement a support plan to facilitate search and rescue operations.This unit of competency applies to experienced operators in roles such as senior technician, team leader or manager who are required to establish local support for interaction between an isolated facility and appropriate agencies, initiate a muster, provide advice to assist the search and rescue, liaise with all relevant internal and external personnel, provide details of local weather, contact the search controller and activate incident response system. This unit of competency applies to an individual working alone or as part of a team or group and working in liaison with other shift and emergency response team members, and the incident commander and control room operator, as appropriate.This unit of competency applies to search and rescue operations arising from any incident and/or context, for example:lost plane/helicopter transporting crewlost supply vessellost truck/vehicleindividual or groups requiring rescuehazardous or non-hazardous goodsland and sea rescue.This unit of competency applies to site/facility personnel who will need to provide organisation input to the specialist search and rescue organisations. It does not cover the development of search and rescue plans, or the conduct/coordination of a search and rescue.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.