BOSIET training is a training design for everyone and anyone who wants to work offshore. It is one of the basic requirements for working offshore.
BOSIET stands for: Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training.
BIOSET training is an intensive theoretical and practical training that takes 2-3 days to complete but viable for 4 years.
Importance of BOSIET Training
BOSIET training is created to assist in meeting the initial offshore safety training, emergency response training, and assessment requirements for personnel new to the offshore oil and gas industry.
BOSIET Training Cost
The Price of the BOSIET training course varies depending on where you attend the course and how good the competition is in your region. It can cost as low as 400 USD and go up to 2000 USD and more.
In Nigeria, the cost is around 350,000 – 400,000 naira.
What BOSIET Covers
Like OPITO BOSIET – The course covers:
MODULE 1 Learning Outcomes: Safety Induction
To complete this module, students must be able to:
- Identify the main offshore hazards and hazard effects/consequences; explain their associated risks, and how they are controlled.
- Explain the potential environmental impact of offshore installation operations.
- Identify key offshore installation safety regulations and explain the basic concept of these regulations.
- Explain the principles of managing safety on offshore installations.
- State the procedure for prescribed medicines offshore.
- Explain the concept of alcohol and substance abuse policy.
- Explain the PPE requirements of working on an offshore installation.
- Explain how to report incidents, accidents, and near misses on an offshore installation.
- Explain the role of the offshore medic.
MODULE 2 Learning Outcomes: Helicopter Safety and Escape
To complete this module, students must be able to demonstrate:
- Donning an aviation transit suit, aviation lifejacket, and Emergency Breathing System (EBS) equipment and conducting EBS integrity checks.
- Actions to take in preparation for a helicopter ditching and an emergency landing.
- Actions following a controlled emergency descent to a dry landing with evacuation via a nominated exit.
- Deployment, operation, and breathing from the EBS in a pool utilizing personal air before Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (HUET) exercises.
- Actions following a controlled ditching on water (including deploying the EBS and, on instruction from aircrew, operation of a push-out window) and evacuation through a nominated exit to an aviation life raft.
- Assisting others where possible in carrying out initial actions on boarding the aviation life raft, including mooring lines, deploying the sea anchor, raising the canopy, and raft maintenance.
- Escaping through an underwater window opening, from a partially submerged helicopter.
- Escaping through an underwater window opening, from a partially submerged helicopter utilizing EBS.
- Escaping through an underwater window opening, from a partially submerged helicopter utilizing an EBS and operating a push-out window.
- Escaping through an underwater window opening, from a capsized helicopter
- Escaping through a window opening which is underwater, from a capsized helicopter utilizing EBS.
- Escaping through an underwater window opening, from a capsized helicopter, utilizing an EBS, and operating a push-out window.
- Inflating an aviation lifejacket and deploying a spray visor in water.
- Boarding an aviation life raft from the water.
MODULE 3 Learning Outcomes: Sea Survival and First Aid
To complete this module, delegates must be able to demonstrate:
- Donning a permanent buoyancy lifejacket before use in an emergency.
- The correct actions when mustering and boarding a survival craft (Enclosed Motor Propelled Survival Craft: TEMPSC) as a passenger during launching operations.
- Fitting of a helicopter strop and correct body posture during winching.
- Individual and group sea survival techniques include: Swimming, getting into Heat Escape Lessening Position (HELP), wave-slap protection, towing, chain, huddle, and circle.
- Boarding a marine life raft from the water.
- Immediate first aid actions include: Airway Breathing & CPR (ABC).
MODULE 4 Learning Outcomes: Firefighting and Self-Rescue
To complete this module, delegates must be able to demonstrate:
- Correct use of hand-held portable fire extinguishers and which ones to use for different classes of fires.
- Self-rescue techniques with a smoke hood from areas where visibility is reduced due to smoke.
- Self-rescue techniques with a smoke hood from areas where visibility is completely obscured.
- Small group escape techniques with a smoke hood from areas where visibility is completely obscured.
BOSIET Trainers
You can register for this course with OPITO trainers: Whichever country you reside in, OPITO will locate a good course provider for you.
Use the link below to choose OPITO BOSIET training providers.
This is how to go about it:
- Click the link below
- Select your course of interest
- Choose your country
- Search
Automatically, available course providers will be displayed for you.
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