This programme is designed to meet the further offshore safety and emergency response training requirements for personnel working in the offshore oil and gas industry.

Helicopter Safety and Escape 

To successfully complete this module, delegates must be able to demonstrate:

(1)  Donning an aviation transit suit, aviation lifejacket and emergency breathing   system equipment (EBS)1 and conducting EBS integrity checks.

(2)  Deploying, operating and breathing from EBS at atmospheric conditions.  

(3)  Deploying, operating and breathing from EBS in a pool utilising personal air prior   to HUET exercises (delegate to experience positive and negative pressure    created by the body orientation in water).

 (4) Actions to take in preparing for a helicopter ditching/emergency landing. 

 (5) Actions following a controlled ditching on water (including deploying EBS and,   on instructions from aircrew, operation of a push out window) and evacuate   through a nominated exit to an aviation life raft.

(6) Assist others where possible in carrying out initial actions on boarding the   aviation life-raft, to include mooring lines, deploying the sea anchor, raising the   canopy and raft maintenance.

(7) Escape through a window opening which is underwater from a partially   submerged helicopter (deploying, operating and breathing from the EBS but   without operation of a push out window).

 (8) Escape through a window opening which is underwater from a partially   submerged helicopter (deploying, operating and breathing from the EBS and   operation of a push out window).

(9) Escape through a window opening which is underwater from a capsized   helicopter (*deploying and operating the EBS on the surface prior to capsize and   operating a push-out window)

(10) Following escape from the helicopter (HUET), inflate lifejacket, deploy spray   visor and carry out in-water procedures, to include swimming, getting into Heat   Escape Lessening Position (HELP), towing, chain, huddle and circle.

(11) Boarding an aviation life-raft from the water.

(12) Being rescued by one of the recognised methods available offshore and   survivor actions following rescue.

Firefighting and Self Rescue

To successfully complete this module, delegates must be able to demonstrate:

(1) Correct use of appropriate hand held portable fire extinguishers and which ones   to use for different classes of fires.

(2) Self-rescue techniques with a smoke hood from areas where visibility is reduced   due to smoke.

(3) Self-rescue techniques with a smoke hood from areas where visibility is   completely obscured

(4) Small group escape techniques with a smoke hood from areas where visibility is   completely obscured

Emergency First Aid

To successfully complete this module, delegates must be able to demonstrate:

1)   Raising the alarm

2)   Immediate first aid actions, to include: ABC   

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Medical and Health Requirements:

Training and/or assessment activities contained within this course may include physically demanding and potentially stressful elements. All personnel who participate in such activities must be physically and mentally capable of participating fully. Therefore OPITO-approved training centres are required, as a minimum, to ensure that prior to participating in practical exercises ,the delegate must either: