Offshore Safety and Rescue Training

Lesson 1 • Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

Teaches systematic methods for identifying and evaluating offshore hazards. Connects risk assessment skills to daily operational decision-making.

Lesson 2 • Offshore Environment Overview

Covers the physical and operational characteristics of offshore platforms and vessels. Builds situational awareness essential for all subsequent safety training.

Lesson 3 • Regulatory and Safety Frameworks

Introduces international and industry safety standards governing offshore operations. Provides the compliance baseline required throughout the course.

Lesson 4 • Personal Protective Equipment

Covers selection, inspection, and correct use of PPE for offshore environments. Reinforces the hierarchy of controls introduced in the previous section.

Lesson 1 • Personal Survival Techniques

Teaches actions to take immediately upon entering the water unplanned. Directly reduces mortality risk through practised behavioural responses.

Lesson 2 • Survival Psychology and Decision-Making

Addresses psychological responses to life-threatening situations offshore. Equips learners to maintain rational decision-making under extreme stress.

Lesson 3 • Lifejacket Use and Donning

Covers correct selection, donning, and operation of offshore lifejackets. Ensures competency with the primary personal flotation device before water entry drills.

Lesson 4 • Physiology of Cold Water Immersion

Explains the body's response to cold water and the stages of immersion syndrome. Grounds all subsequent survival technique decisions in physiological reality.

Lesson 1 • Fixed Suppression Systems

Introduces deluge, gaseous, and foam fixed systems used on offshore installations. Prepares personnel to operate safely around automated suppression activation.

Lesson 2 • Fire Science and Classification

Explains combustion chemistry and the fire triangle as applied to offshore fuels. Provides the scientific basis for all suppression and prevention decisions.

Lesson 3 • Firefighting Team Roles and Tactics

Defines roles within an offshore emergency response team during a fire event. Integrates detection and suppression skills into coordinated team action.

Lesson 4 • Fire Detection and Alarm Systems

Covers fixed detection technologies and alarm panel interpretation on offshore platforms. Connects detection knowledge to rapid, correct emergency response.

Lesson 1 • Respiratory Hazards Offshore

Identifies toxic, oxygen-deficient, and flammable atmospheres common on offshore installations. Establishes the hazard context that justifies BA and confined space controls.

Lesson 2 • Confined Space Rescue Techniques

Develops non-entry and entry rescue methods for incapacitated workers. Integrates BA competency with rescue rigging and casualty extraction.

Lesson 3 • Safe Entry and Work Procedures

Trains the step-by-step process for entering, working in, and exiting confined spaces. Applies permit and BA skills in a controlled sequential workflow.

Lesson 4 • Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus

Covers SCBA components, pre-use checks, and operational procedures. Builds the foundational skill required before any confined space entry training.

Lesson 1 • Pool-Based Escape Drills

Executes controlled inversion and underwater exit exercises in a training pool. Applies all prior helicopter and EBS knowledge in realistic simulated conditions.

Lesson 2 • Post-Ditching Survival Actions

Covers actions after surfacing from a ditched helicopter, including raft boarding and signalling. Connects helicopter escape skills to broader sea survival competencies.

Lesson 3 • Helicopter Ditching Procedures

Trains the brace position, exit preparation, and post-ditching actions for passengers. Builds the procedural knowledge required before pool-based escape drills.

Lesson 4 • Underwater Escape Breathing Systems

Introduces emergency breathing systems used during helicopter underwater escape. Ensures correct operation before learners enter the pool simulator.

Lesson 1 • On-Water Survival in Survival Craft

Trains ration management, signalling, and medical care inside survival craft. Integrates sea survival psychology with practical resource management.

Lesson 2 • Life Raft Deployment and Boarding

Covers hydrostatic release, manual deployment, and boarding of offshore life rafts. Prepares personnel for raft use when lifeboat launch is not possible.

Lesson 3 • Totally Enclosed Lifeboat Operations

Trains boarding, securing, and launching of totally enclosed motor-propelled lifeboats. Builds on embarkation skills with mechanical and navigational operation.

Lesson 4 • Free-Fall Lifeboat Procedures

Introduces the unique boarding, launching, and recovery procedures for free-fall lifeboats. Addresses the additional hazards and techniques specific to this craft type.

Lesson 1 • Primary Survey and Life Support

Teaches the ABCDE primary survey and basic life support for offshore casualties. Establishes the clinical assessment framework used throughout the chapter.

Lesson 2 • Casualty Packaging and Evacuation

Trains spinal immobilisation, stretcher use, and helicopter medical evacuation procedures. Prepares learners to safely transfer casualties to definitive care.

Lesson 3 • Offshore Medical Emergency Management

Integrates first aid skills into coordinated management of multi-casualty offshore incidents. Develops triage and resource allocation decision-making.

Lesson 4 • Trauma Management Offshore

Covers assessment and treatment of burns, crush injuries, and fractures common offshore. Connects trauma priorities to the primary survey framework.

Lesson 1 • Man Overboard Response

Develops immediate and sustained response procedures for man-overboard events. Integrates sea survival, rescue craft, and first aid skills into a single scenario.

Lesson 2 • Evacuation and Muster Drills

Executes timed full-installation evacuation drills integrating all survival craft skills. Validates competency under realistic time and stress conditions.

Lesson 3 • Search and Rescue Coordination

Trains coordination with maritime and aerial search and rescue services. Connects on-installation response to external rescue asset management.

Lesson 4 • Post-Incident Review and Improvement

Trains structured after-action review methods to extract lessons from drills and real events. Closes the safety management loop by feeding findings back into planning.