OFF-2 (A) Infrequent Offshore Travellers - Tropical HUET including Travel Safely by Boat and Tropical EBS – OPITO APPROVED


	Aims	To prepare infrequent travellers for offshore travel by helicopter or boat and also includes relevant emergency response procedures and sea survival techniques.
	Outcomes	Describe the pre boarding, boarding, and disembarkation procedures relevant to helicopters and boats. State the types of transfer emergencies and describe the likely emergency scenarios. Describe the evacuation process with reference to donning lifejackets, on-board emergency equipment, muster stations and escape routes, emergency exit points and their operation, sea survival techniques following evacuation. Don an aviation and marine lifejacket. Evacuate from a helicopter following an emergency dry landing. Dry evacuation from a helicopter ditched in water to a life-raft. Escape, through an exit underwater, from a partially submerged helicopter. Escape from a capsized helicopter and inflation of lifejacket. Discuss various methods of transfer by boat/ barge to and from fixed facilities. Theoretical content covers personnel net (basket), swing rope and the ‘FROG’. Identify the hazards involved during transfer, past incidents and learning points. Describe operational procedures and good practice. Demonstrate safe personnel net (basket) and swing rope transfer techniques in a variety of simulated sea conditions. Note: This course is approved by the Offshore Petroleum Industry Training Organisation, UK, and will be registered in the OPITO Central Training Register (CTR)
	Location and Duration	The duration of the course is 1-day The course is delivered at Megamas Training Company Sdn. Bhd., in Mumong/Kuala Balai, Kuala Belait.
	Pre-Requisits	Valid Offshore Certificate as per UKOOA/BSP Approved Medical Examiners
	Validity	3 years with 3 max return trips
	Medical Required	Yes
	Delegates	Minimum number 4 Maximum number 16
	Approval	Opito Approved