Foundation Course
This training is for existing and potential new firefighters.
Who Should Attend?
Any new or potential oil and gas industry firefighters.
Foundation Course Learning Objectives
- Safety Introduction
- Potential offshore hazards and their consequences
- Waste disposal and awareness of the environment
- Regulation and management of offshore safety
- Appropriate procedures for prescribed medication
- Understanding of the alcohol and substance abuse policy
- PPE Requirements.
- Follow procedures for reporting incidents, accidents and any near misses
- Understand the role of a medic in these incidences
- Helicopter Safety and Escape:
- Pre-boarding safety
- Safe boarding of the helicopter
- Safety during the flight
- How to disembark safely
- Emergency in-flight actions
- Use of breathing equipment in the event of an emergency
- Practical emergency escape procedures and the appropriate breathing systems
- Sea Survival:
- The theory behind abandonment
- Practical survival skills for sea
- Skills for boarding and mustering of the appropriate survival craft
- Passenger actions during launch operations
- Understand the use of rescue helicopters
- Winching procedures
- The administration of emergency first aid, including CPR
- Fire Fighting and Self Rescue:
- The nature and causes of fire in oil and gas situations
- Fixed systems and response procedures
- Understand the use of hand-held extinguishers
- Skills to operate fixed hose reels
- Techniques for self-rescue including reduced and obscured visibility situations
- Use of escape hoods