Price: $1500 (Cost excluding VAT/WHT)

Duration: 5 Days

Intended for: All personnel working in a marine environment

Aims: To ensure that new entrants to the industry can demonstrate competence in:
• Addressing safety requirements
• Controlling hazards in a marine environment
• Acting in an emergency
• Using personal safety equipment
• Carrying out their individual responsibilities for HSE

Objectives: Upon completion of the course students should be able to demonstrate:
• Awareness of the risks to which they are exposed and how they are managed
• An understanding of the essential safety rules with which they must comply and how to act in an emergency
• An increase in their personal commitment to work safely
• Effective use of personal safety equipment

Content:
• Personal Safety
Accident theory/prevention
Types of emergencies encountered onboard ships
Emergency signals and actions
Environmental issues
Safe working practices
Confined space operations
Occupational Health
Social Responsibilities
Orders and Communication
Effective human relationships
Social responsibilities
What is drug + alcohol abuse
Sea Survival
Step off procedure
Swimming in a lifejacket
HELP Position
Survival Circles
Preparation for entering the water and survival craft
Properties of lifejackets
Practical training in life jackets
Various survival equipment
Liferaft operation
Righting a capsized liferaft
Boarding procedures
Vital actions
First Aid
Appreciation of Body Structure and Systems
Accident Approach
Examining a Casualty
CPR
Bleeding
Use of Bandages and Materials in First Aid Kit
Shock Management
Burns
Casualty Handling and Transport
Hypothermia
Fire Fighting
Shipboard Fire Fighting Organizations
Theory of Combustion
Spread of Fire
Classes of Fire
Fire Extinguishing Methods
Fire Fighting Equipment and its use
Fixed fire and gas detection and fire fighting systems
Onboard detection systems
PPE
Breathing Apparatus
Main elements of a BA set
Low pressure alarms whistle operation
BA tests
Doffing the BA set
Correct stowage of a BA set
Control of a BA team
Hoses And Branches
Hydrant system
Make up of a hose and the different methods of storage
Branch operation
Self Rescue
Self Rescue techniques
Respiratory Protection Equipment
Practical Self Rescue
Course assessment
Course evaluation and customer response forms