Target group
This programme HUET (with CA-EBS) is designed to meet the offshore safety and emergency response training requirements for personnel working in the offshore oil and gas industry who will be supplied with a compressed air emergency breathing system (CA-EBS) during offshore helicopter travel.
Objectives of the courseThe aim of the HUET (with CA-EBS) programme is to prepare delegates that intend to travel to and from offshore oil and gas installations and vessels by helicopter by providing specific training in preflight and in-flight requirements and to equip delegates with the basic emergency response knowledge and skills required in the event of a helicopter emergency – with specific focus on escaping from a helicopter following ditching.
The objectives of the HUET (with CA-EBS) Training are that delegates will be able to: - Demonstrate, in a simulated environment, that they can use the safety equipment, and follow procedures in preparing for, and during helicopter emergencies – with particular focus on escaping from a helicopter following ditching.
Approval
Offshore Petroleum Industry Training Organization (OPITO)
Course contents1.Helicopter Safety and EscapeHelicopter TravelTraining staff will explain:- Pre-flight briefings
- The procedures and requirements for pre-boarding, safe boarding, in-flight and safe disembarkation
- Delegates must be made aware that they should ensure they familiarise themselves with the aviation transit suit they are expected to use before boarding a helicopter
Helicopter EmergenciesTraining staff will explain:- Informing the crew of suspected or observed helicopter emergencies
- In-flight procedures
- Aircraft basic flotation characteristics
- Aircraft escape routes for ditching and emergency landing
- Independent action
- Survival techniques following ditching and emergency landing
Use of Compressed Air Emergency Breathing System (CA-EBS) Training staff will explain:- The principles of compressed air emergency breathing systems (CA-EBS)
- The principles of other typical emergency breathing systems (EBS) used in the oil and gas industry (i.e. re-breather systems)
- The components and elements of the CA-EBS
- The operation of the compressed air EBS equipment in conjunction with other survival equipment
- The hazards associated with compressed air EBS
Training staff will explain and demonstrate and delegates will practice:- The pre-donning checks on the life jacket and compressed air EBS
- How to don the life jacket complete with compressed air EBS
- Deployment of CA-EBS
Practical helicopter escape techniquesFollowing explanations and demonstrations by training staff delegates will practice and demonstrate:- Donning of an aviation transit suit, an aviation lifejacket, compressed air emergency breathing system (CA-EBS) equipment and conducting integrity checks of the CA-EBS equipment, including buddy checks
- Deploying (left and right hand) and breathing from CA-EBS equipment at atmospheric pressure in dry conditions
- Actions to take in preparing for a helicopter emergency landing
- Following instruction from the crew, location of CA-EBS equipment and evacuation from a helicopter using a nominated exit, following a controlled emergency descent to a dry landing (conducted in helicopter simulator at poolside on dry land)
- Actions to be taken in preparing for an in-water ditching including location of exit, deploying and breathing from CA-EBS equipment at atmospheric pressure in dry conditions (conducted in helicopter simulator at poolside on dry land)
- Dry evacuation, using a nominated exit, to an aviation life raft from a helicopter ditched on water (and, on instructions from the aircrew, operation of a push out window), assisting others where possible and carrying out initial actions on boarding the aviation life raft, to include: mooring lines, deploying the sea anchor, raising the canopy and raft maintenance
- Escaping through a window opening which is underwater, from a partially submerged helicopter (without operation of a push out window)
- Escaping through a window opening which is underwater, from a partially submerged helicopter (with operation of a push out window)
- Escaping through a window opening which is underwater, from a capsized helicopter (without operation of a push out window)
- Inflation of an aviation lifejacket, deployment of a spray visor and boarding of an aviation life raft from the water
Additional CA-EBS Training (In-Water)Following explanations and demonstrations by training staff delegates will practice and demonstrate:- Deploying CA-EBS (above the water surface) and breathing from the CA-EBS in a pool, face down in shallow water
- Deploying CA-EBS (below the water surface, face down in a pool in shallow water) and clearing the mouthpiece by exhaling under the water surface
- Deploying CA-EBS (below the water surface, face down in a pool in shallow water, using opposite hand to previous exercise) and clearing with purge button under the water surface
- Deploying CA-EBS (above water surface), in a pool and breathing from CA-EBS underwater in a vertical position
- Deploying CA-EBS (underwater), in a pool and breathing from CA-EBS underwater in a vertical position
- Deploying CA-EBS (underwater), in a pool, breathing from CA-EBS underwater, and moving along a horizontal rail for a period of no less than 30 seconds, including a change in direction
Duration of the training course
The duration of the training course is 1 day.
Price
The price is 660 EUR per person.
Certificate validity
4 years
Training approaches and equipment:- Theoretical tasks with presentations and visualizations
- Explanations and demonstrations using real equipment
- Practical exercises using real life equipment and/or simulators
- Professional instructors with industry experience
Course limitations:The course ratio are:- Theory – 16 participants on 1 instructor
- Practice – 4 participants on 1 instructor
Description of the course