This OPITO course is developed to ensure that personnel requiring revalidation of their BOSIET or FOET certificates and travelling regularly to their offshore worksites by boats receive adequate refresher training. The FOET with EBS and Travel Safely by Boat (TSbB) includes a lot of practical exercises with the focus on boat transfer and sea survival techniques.

Objective:

The main objectives of the FOET with EBS and Travel Safely by Boat (TSbB) training are to refresh knowledge concerning offshore installations hazards and emergency response and practice essential survival skills including helicopter escape, sea survival techniques and boat transfer safety procedures.

Course content:

• Offshore hazards review;
• Safe working procedures at offshore vessels and installation;
• Helicopter Safety and Emergency Escape;
• Emergency Breathing Systems theory and practice;
• Sea survival and first aid module;
• Firefighting equipment operation and self rescue techniques;
• Safe embarkation and disembarkation;
• Liferaft training;
• Lifeboat passenger practice training;
• Boat transfer methods, practical boat exercises.

Target Audience: Seafarers and offshore personnel who are transferred to their worksites by boats and requiring revalidation of their BOSIET or FOET certificates.

Pre-requisites: Valid OPITO approved BOSIET /TBOSIET or FOET /TFOET certificate and offshore medical certificate.

Duration: 3 days.

Validity: 4 years.

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