Helideck Emergency Response Team Leader-Further (HERTL- F)

Description

OPITO-certified HERTLs who are presently serving and need to revalidate their certification are the target audience for this training program. The purpose of the program is to modernize and refresh their expertise in areas related to their roles that they are unable to exercise at work.

Through the course of the last two years (roughly), the program aims to provide HERTLs with an update on significant modifications to helicopter operations, systems, pertinent laws, and regulations. HERTLs can ensure compliance with the most recent standards and improve the efficacy of emergency response activities by keeping up with these advancements and modifying their practices and procedures accordingly. The program's overall goal is to guarantee that HERTLs continue to be qualified, knowledgeable, and equipped to oversee emergency response teams in offshore settings.

What will you learn

• 1. Emergency access and egress to and from helidecks including clear, concise and effective communications with all relevant ER personnel.

• 2. Directing the helideck team in a clear and confident manner during emergencies including the correct selection of appropriate fire-fighting equipment for the incident.

• 3. Directing entry to the incident area in a controlled manner – continually assessing how the changes in the emergency could impact on the safety of the HERT members, maintaining a means of escape from the incident area.

• 4. Effective delegation of emergency response tasks to team members

• 5. Controlling helicopter incident firefighting operations, to include responding to a helicopter engine fire using a CO2 media extended applicator.

• 6. Ensure correct donning, use and monitoring of breathing apparatus (BA) of HERT members (all delegates to practice donning and using BA.

• 7. Effective Search and rescue (SAR) principles and techniques – on or close to the helideck, locating, extracting and handling missing personnel and casualties following a helicopter incident on the helideck.

• 8. Appropriate response to non-firefighting operations during helicopter incident.

• 9. Ensuring effective use of firefighting fixed, portable and mobile systems, including fixed fire monitors, dry chemical and CO2 fire extinguishment and control media

• 10. Responding to a NUI helideck fire with limited firefighting equipment.

• 11. Utilizing back-up ER Team via the Team Leader this only requires briefing the back-up team leader.

• 12. Missing persons and casualty management, to include a) Prioritising b) Accounting for missing personnel c) Casualty handling techniques

• 13. Hose-running techniques and associated hazards

• 14. Conducting dynamic risk assessment during the emergency situation and obtaining feedback against the plan

• 15. Continually monitoring human factors during emergency response including: a) stress affecting decision making in self and team (b) physical limitations of self and team

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