OPITO Tropical Basic Offshore Safety Induction & Emergency Training T-BOSIET for Tropical Warm Water Operating Areas
The Tropical BOSIET (TBOSIET) training was originally developed jointly by the management of MEGAMAS Training Company and Brunei Shell Petroleum and is a part of the OPITO suite of Emergency Response Training Standards. It consists of the core competence and safety training requirements that are relative to all the tropical warm water operating areas of the offshore oil and gas Industry.
Tropical warm water operating areas are defined as those areas within geographical domain of the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn however areas out with this domain with a consistent water temperature in excess of 15 degrees Celsius may also be included.
This training program is designed to meet the initial offshore safety and emergency response training requirements for personnel new (or returning) to the offshore oil and gas industry in a tropical environment.
- Duration: Approx. 19 hours (3 days)
- Validity: 4 years
- Medical Requirement: Offshore medical certificate or medical certificate from the company
- Pre-requisites: Nil
T-BOSIET Training
Safety Induction (Theory)
- Industry and Installation Overview: Pre-flight briefings; The procedures and requirements for pre-boarding, safe boarding, in-flight and safe disembarkation; and Offshore Hazards.
- Offshore Hazards: Definitions of hazard, risk and control measures; Accident statistics, comparison with other industries; Environmental impact and statistics; and Offshore hazards and comparative risk levels.
- Managing Offshore Safety: The multiple barriers model and systems in place to prevent hazards from contacting targets.
- Controlling Offshore Hazards: The hierarchy of control and how control measures are implemented offshore; Determining risks and implementing control measures; The consequences of failure to control the risks.
- Regulating Offshore Safety: How offshore safety is regulated; Hierarchy of legislation; Directives; Safety Case regulations; Duties of employer and employees and concept of ALARP; How goals are set for prevention/protection and emergency response, emergency response planning and performance standards; Role of the Health & Safety Authorities; Use of relevant ISO standards; Industry’s expectations of personal safety behavior; Communicating safety, including lines of communication; What to do when not satisfied with response to safety communication
- Living and Working Offshore: Fitness requirements and medical standards; The procedure for taking prescribed medicines offshore; and Offshore routine requirements and welfare; and Injuries and illness.
- Knowledge Test (Question paper, 30 min)
Helicopter Safety and Escape (Theory & Practical)
- Helicopter Travel: Pre-flight briefings; and the procedures and requirements for pre-boarding, safe boarding, in-flight and safe disembarkation.
- Helicopter Emergencies: 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; Donning of an aviation lifejacket; Actions in preparation for a helicopter ditching and emergency landing; Helicopter evacuation; and Survival techniques following ditching and emergency landing
- Helicopter Emergencies Practical: Donning of an aviation lifejacket; Actions to take in preparing for a helicopter ditching/emergency landing; Following instruction from the crew, evacuation from a helicopter using a nominated exit, following a controlled emergency descent to a dry landing; Dry evacuation; Escaping through a window opening; and Inflation of an aviation lifejacket, deployment of spray visor and boarding of an aviation liferaft from the water.
Sea Survival and First Aid (Theory & Practical)
- Evacuation: Typical types of offshore installation emergencies; Station bills; Various means of escape; Actions to be taken prior to, during and after selective evacuation or escape from an offshore installation; Installation emergency knowledge required of all personnel onboard; The SAR organization; Rescue by helicopter; The importance of appropriate personal clothing; and Methods of rescue; The various types of survival craft; The function and capabilities of TEMPSC; The procedure for mustering, boarding and strapping in, including the safety precautions during lowering and release, emergency equipment and supplies; and The various methods of tertiary escape.
- Evacuation Practical: Mustering, donning a life jacket, boarding and strapping in as a TEMPSC passenger; Water entry and the precautions when entering from the water; The fitting of a helicopter rescue device, subsequent lifting and (simulated) entry into a rescue helicopter; In-water survival techniques; and Boarding a marine liferaft from the water and carrying out initial actions, and secondary actions.
- Emergency First Aid: First aid arrangements; Types of injuries; Prioritizing actions; Immediate first aid actions suitable for use prior to the arrival of the medic/first aider; Raising the alarm; Assessing the situation; Checking area is safe; and Industry recognized first aid practice.
Fire Fighting and Self Rescue (Theory & Practical)
- Firefighting offshore: Raising the alarm on discovery of a fire; and The correct operation of hand held portable fire extinguishers in extinguishing Class A or Class B fires
- Self-Rescue: Donning and use of smoke hood; Self-rescue techniques with a smoke hood or partial blindfold from areas where delegate visibility is reduced; Self-rescue techniques with a smoke hood or partial blindfold from areas where delegate visibility is completely obscured; Small group escape techniques with a smoke hood or partial blindfold from areas where delegate visibility is completely obscured concluding with a muster exercise.
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Last Updated: March 15, 2021