HUET Water Survival Course Outline

This 8-hour course utilizes our onsite, large, heated/covered pool.  This training provides your employees with information and skills to help prevent water survival accidents minimize injuries and reduce company liabilities. Our competent instructors provide lecture and actual water training exercises. API RP T-7, T-4, 75 SEMP and USCG Title 33 Regulations recommend that all offshore personnel receive this training.

COURSE OUTLINE

1.    Introduction-training objectives presented
2.    Offshore Transportation/Emergency Abandonment (video)
3.    Review of API RP T-7; Elements of a Rescue
4.    Emergency Situations (Types, Signals, Abandonment Methods & Actions, Station Bill)
5.    Survival Principles (Drills, Attitudes, Clothing as buoyant devices)
6.    Personal Floatation Devices (Types I-V)
7.    Man overboard emergencies
8.   Survival Floating & Swimming
9.   Life Ring Buoys, Life Floats, Life Rafts (applications /launching)
10. Life Raft (video)
11. Survival Capsules (application & use & video)
12. Signaling Equipment & Pyrotechnics (application & demonstration)-EPIRB, 
       Radio, GMDSS, SARTS
13. Helicopter Safety- (video, safety equipment & procedures involving impact/egress)
14. Swing Ropes and Personnel Baskets
15. First Aid Treatment (drowning victim treatment procedures, Hypothermia, Litter,
      First Aid Kit Use
16. Cold water shock (video)
17. Pool Rules

PRACTICAL POOL EXERCISES
1.   Rope Swing/Personnel Basket exercise (personnel must be able to hold on rope at
      Least 10 seconds)
2.   Life Ring Toss Demonstration
3.   Buoyancy float & survival strokes
4.   PFD-donning in water & surface, swimming while donning, HELP position demo,
      Hypothermia huddle protection, rescuing an injured person while wearing a PFD
       (10 ft. tow)
5.   Water Entry from a height
6.   Life raft righting demo, boarding from the water, assisting survivor in raft.
7.   Use of Clothing as Buoyant Devices-5 minute required survival float
8.   Escaping a simulated oil fire on water surface.
9.   Helicopter Underwater Egress Training (HUET)- multi-seat simulator crash simulation
      Escape exercises- controlled ditching, submersion without & with windows; inversion
      With & without windows (required)

Times: 8 hrs.