HUET with CA-EBS (Code 5295)
Helicopter Underwater Escape Training with Compressed Air Emergency Breathing System

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 course
The 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 contents
1.Helicopter Safety and Escape

Helicopter Travel
Training 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 Emergencies
Training 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 techniques
Following 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