OFFSHORE LOGISTICS
THE BURGEONING MARKET IN SELF-SPONSORED TRAINING
The offshore industry is becoming increasingly buoyant with the positive knock-on effect of employment creation in the sector. Falck Safety Services, which delivers safety training to over 240,000 people each year, is increasingly servicing the self- sponsored market. Falck caters to the needs of a diverse range of self- sponsored clients with backgrounds ranging from the military to maritime engineering. The company also trains existing offshore professionals through long-term contracts with key players within this burgeoning market.
PREPARATION FOR WORKING OFFSHORE
The main purpose of the Minimum Industry Safety and BOSIET training is to prepare people for working offshore in the North Sea in the UK and in Norway. The training is designed to equip trainees for the rigours of working in frequently harsh offshore conditions, so real-life scenarios are provided as far as is practical. Training modules include focuses on offshore safety, fire safety and fire fighting, offshore emergency response, helideck training and offshore wind safety.
Basically, it’s on a crane and can be levered up and down, turned upside down underwater, and the trainees have to self-evacuate to life rafts in the water.”
BUILDING CONFIDENCE Colin added: “The courses are designed to prepare delegates for situations they could find themselves in harsh offshore environments.
“New trainees can experience a level of trepidation when starting the training but the main thing about it is that it’s there to give them the confidence to deal with this uncertainty, so that if they’re faced with emergency situations they can react speedily.”
CASE STUDY – LEWIS ROBERTS
One such trainee is 38-year old Lewis Roberts from Rhyl in North Wales who was previously a soldier in the British Army. He would like to use the skills and expertise he has learned while on his safety training course to enter the offshore industry.
Lewis, who has only recently finished his three-day course, said: “The training was spot-on; I have never done anything like it before but it was straightforward and practical as everything was explained thoroughly to me and the training equips me for the offshore industry.
Lewis continued: “After coming straight out of the
MINIMUM INDUSTRY SAFETY TRAINING
Anyone wanting to enter the increasingly hostile and challenging world of offshore work needs to undergo a three-day basic safety induction course which mimics a range of different ditching scenarios. Applicants for offshore work need to have done the Minimum Industry Safety Training course and Basic Offshore Safety and Induction & Emergency Training (BOSIET) certificate, which are frequently self- sponsored and need to be completed for any offshore role.
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Colin Leyden, Managing Director, explained: “The Minimum Industry Safety and BOSIET courses are split into three sections. There’s a basic induction to working safely offshore, being transported offshore, including helicopter evacuation in several different scenarios as well as fire-fighting to cover on-board safety.
“The training focuses on how to evacuate a helicopter and escape procedures. We use a helicopter underwater escape training simulator or ‘HUETS’ for short.
army, it has given me the skills to work in the industry and also, more importantly, the qualifications, which are a must to get into that type of work.”
Workers, and those wanting to enter the industry, are also required to take refresher courses every four years.
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