Theoretical aspects
Helideck emergency response capacity
Planning of the emergency response
- HDA HERTM role and key responsibilities
- Request of emergency response pre-planning
- Main elements of an emergency response plan
- Possible emergency scenarios, HLO HERTL and HDA HERTM requisites:
- Helicopter crash on a deck
- Engine fire
- Fire on an offshore installation or boats
- Fire during helicopter refuelling
- Fuel fires
- Emergency landing on helideck
- Attempted landing without landing gear
- Evacuation and emergency procedures to be followed on the helicopter (medical evacuation)
- Use of helicopter for overboard man rescue
- Events which can have a strong effect on flights safety
- Fuel contamination
- Blocked /obstructed Helideck
- Landing on the wrong deck or installation
- Installation or boat state changes (MODU) when the helicopter is on a deck
- General objectives for firefighting safety on helidecks and how to achieve them
- Offshore training and onshore training (with and without fire)
Emergency and control systems on helidecks and on helicopters
- Firefighting equipment and fixed systems on helideck and foam equipment performance requirements
- Rapid foam production
- Reliability – recurrent tests
- roofing
- Foam quality
- Deck integrated firefighting systems
- Mobile firefighting equipment on helideck
- Minimal rescue equipment on helidecks (international guidelines)
- Helicopter emergency systems and check that can be undertaken by HLO, HDA and HERTM
- Engine switch-off
- Fuel isolation
- Fixed firefighting systems and protection systems
HLO emergency response on unmanned installations
Emergency response requirements
- Planning in case of helicopter emergencies on unmanned installations, with limited emergency response capacity:
- Helicopter on deck
- No helicopter on deck
- Firefighting and rescue equipment requirements, extinguishing means requirements on unattended installations
- Limited accommodations on unattended installations, if the personnel must stay for longer than expected
- First aid material positioning on unattended installations
- Considering evacuation from unattended installations in case helicopters are not available
HDA: Helideck Emergency Response Team Member (HERTM)
HDA HERTM helideck and helicopter emergency response
- Human factors effects during the emergency response (stress, physical exhaustion)
- Possible dangers: fire, electricity, helicopter materials
- Specific PPE
- How different typologies of helicopters can influence the emergency response
- Emergency response dispositions
- Operations with breathing apparatuses and checks procedures
- Search and rescue effective techniques -after accident on helideck
- Equipment and checks (helideck and helicopter)
- Firefighting equipment: guide to know when and where using the different extinguishing means
- Environmental conditions monitoring and their influence on 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 operation after the accident (including the reaction to an engine fire with use of extensible CO2 applicator)
- Correct use of self-contained breathing apparatus (If HLO suggests it)
- Search and rescue effective techniques
- Adequate response to a helicopter emergency with no fire
- Effective use of mobile and fixed firefighting installation
- How to react to a helideck fire on unattended installations
- Work with the spare emergency team when required
- Correct technique to manage an injured person
Practical session
Practical exercises (emergency response)
- Emergency entry and exit (on helicopter and on helideck)
- To keep the escape route 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)
- To keep the escape route
- 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
- Localisation, extrication and management of missing person and victim after a helicopter accident on helideck
- Breathing apparatus checks
- Use of breathing apparatuses
