The course provides all the personnel operating on offshore installations helidecks with the opportunity to keep the required skills in case of emergency, which would not be possible in ordinary workplaces.
Theoretical aspects
- To update knowledge concerning the most relevant modifications about helicopter operations, systems, legislation and norms
- Concept of helicopter emergency response:
- Helideck team’s Priorities during an emergency
- Fixed and mobile firefighting systems
- Search and rescue on helideck and inside the helicopter
- Victims management.
Human factors effects on emergency response
Techniques to keep calm during emergencies response
Practical session
- How to keep calm during the emergency response
- Ask for help if overwhelmed by the emergency situation
- Techniques to keep calm during emergency response
- Effective communication with HLO and Team members- clear instructions
- Giving the HLO information about emergency response plan and its evolution
- How to correctly answer to the HLO instructions
- Following HLO instructions: approaching to the accident area and controlling if changes could influence the safety of other team members
- Tasks execution during the emergency response
- To manage the firefighting operations
- Correct use of self-contained breathing apparatus (If HLO suggests it)
- Adequate response to a helicopter emergency (no fire)
- Effective use of mobile and fixed firefighting installation
- Work with the spare emergency team when required
- Correct technique to manage an injured person
Practical exercises (emergency response)
- Emergency entry and exit (helideck)
- To keep an escape means from the accident area
- Emergency response (no fire)
- Firefighting equipment choice according to the type of accident
- Use of firefighting fixed monitors
- Use of mobile and portable firefighting equipment (including fire extinguishers)
- Response to Class A fires caused by helicopter accidents
- Response to Class B fires caused by helicopter accidents
- How to unroll hoses and consequent dangers
- Search and rescue techniques
- Localisation, management of missing person and victim after the accident
- Breathing apparatus checks
- Use of breathing apparatuses
