Aims: To ensure that personnel who work aboard marine vessels and craft are familiar with the actions to be taken and procedures to be followed during an emergency situation. Objectives: upon completion of the course students should be able to demonstrate:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the procedures to be followed in the event of an emergency
• Demonstrate the correct methods of use of basic survival equipment such as survival suits, life jackets, life rafts and lifeboats
• Understand the correct procedures to be followed during vessel abandonment
• Demonstrate understanding of the correct methods for boarding lifeboats and life rafts
• Demonstrate the correct methods for using a scramble (cargo) net
• Demonstrate the correct method of donning a heliotrope and adopting the correct posture for winching.

Content:
• Safety Induction
• Helicopter Safety and Escape

• Pre-flight, in-flight and on-landing procedures
• Helicopter emergencies
• Actions in preparation for helicopter emergency landing
• Evacuation via a nominated exit after a controlled emergency landing

2. Sea Survival
a. Abandonment Procedures
b. Means of Escape
c. Life raft and TEMPSC emergency equipment
d. Types of Lifejackets
e. Step Off procedure
a. Water Entry Procedures
b. In -water survival techniques
c. Boarding and disembarking from marine life raft

3. Fire Fighting & Self Rescue
a. Methods of Fire Spread
b. Fire Classification
c. Types of Portable Fire Extinguishers
d. Operation of Fire Extinguishers
a. Self rescue techniques with a smoke hood from areas with reduced visibility

Course Duration: 1 day