Shallow Water Compressed Air Emergency Breathing System Initial Deployment Training

This Product is for personnel travelling to an offshore oil and gas installation by helicopter who require additional training in a Compressed Air Emergency Breathing System (CA-EBS) will complete this training.

This Product is to complement initial and further offshore safety and emergency response training and assessment (i.e. TBOSIET, T-HUET or T-FOET) for personnel travelling to an offshore oil and gas installation by helicopter when issued with a Compressed Air Emergency Breathing System (CA-EBS). 

The objectives of the additional CA-EBS training delivered in addition to the T-BOSIET, T-HUET, T-FOET or OPITO BOSIET/FOET/HUET with EBS programmes are to: 

(a) Ensure learners are familiar with the use of the Compressed Air Emergency Breathing System (CA-EBS) 

(b) Ensure that learners understand their basic emergency response actions during a helicopter emergency using the CA-EBS

Learners must possess a valid OPITO T-BOSIET/T-FOET/T-HUET, BOSIET/FOET/HUET with EBS (or Industry agreed equivalent) certificate prior to attending the OPITO Shallow Water Compressed Air Emergency Breathing System Initial Deployment Training.

Centres must provide evidence that the pre-requisite requirements were met by the learners if requested by OPITO.

Centre Requirements for CA-EBS in HUET Outcome 4, Criteria 4.7 through to 4.11

National and Local Diving at Work Regulations must allow delivery of CA-EBS in HUET training . Suitable and sufficient risk assessments must be developed by Centres which correctly identify and mitigate, to as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP), appropriate risks for Outcome 4, criteria 4.7 through to 4.11 Risk assessments must be reviewed by OPITO in advance of any approval being granted to a Centre to deliver Outcome 4, criteria 4.7 through to 4.11. Any Centre(s) unable to meet the above requirements can continue to deliver the requirements of the product and must omit Outcome 4, criteria 4.7 through to 4.11 from delivery.

Medical Entry Requirements

Training activities contained within this Product may include physically demanding and potentially stressful elements. All personnel who participate in such activities must be capable of participating fully.

OPITO-approved Centres are therefore required, as a minimum, to ensure that prior to participating in practical exercises, suitable and sufficient risk assessments are in place and that the learners must either:

(a) Possess a valid, current offshore medical certificate OR,

(b) Possess an employing company approved medical certificate equivalent to an offshore medical certificate OR,

(c) Possess a valid, unexpired, medical certificate of fitness to work at sea, OR,

(d) Possess a valid and current certificate of medical fitness for diving at work. OR,

(e) Undergo medical screening by completing an appropriate medical screening form provided by the OPITO-approved centre

Additional Medical Requirements specific to Additional CA-EBS Shallow Water Training (Outcome 4, criteria 4.1 through to 4.6 )

a) Satisfied National and/or State medical requirements relating to learners participating in Shallow Water CA-EBS training and are supported by suitable and sufficient risk assessments

OR

b) Possess a valid, unexpired OEUK offshore medical certificate confirming the learner’s fitness for offshore work* OR possess a valid, unexpired offshore medical certificate issued by a body outside of the UK which is recognised as equivalent to the OEUK medical certificate of fitness for offshore work* OR possess a valid, unexpired, medical certificate of fitness to work at sea, OR possess a valid and current certificate of medical fitness provided by an Approved Medical Examiner of Diving (AMED) that meets the requirements of the Diving at Work Regulations 1997

AND

c) Possess a certificate of fitness to undertake shallow water CA-EBS training issued by a registered OEUK examining doctor*, OR, where the medical fitness certificate for work at sea includes a restriction or is subject to conditions, possess a statement from an appropriately registered practitioner that the restriction or condition does not result from a respiratory or ENT condition and there is no absolute contraindication to the shallow water learner’s participation in the training*,

AND

d) On the date on which the learner is to undertake shallow water CA-EBS training, and prior to entering the water in which the training takes place, the learner gives to the OPITO-approved Centre a statement, that to the best of the learner’s knowledge and belief, the learner has no (current or past) medical condition which makes the learner unfit to participate in the training.

In addition to the above medical requirements Centres need to ensure that the below requirements are also achieved:

Additional Medical Requirements specific to CA-EBS in HUET training (Outcome 4, Criteria 4.7 through to 4.11)

a)Possess a valid and current certificate of medical fitness for diving at work

OR

b) b)Possess a valid and current medical that has been provided by a registered medical practitioner. The registered medical practioner must have completed a full clinical assessment of the HUET trainee’s respiratory and ENT systems and not identified any issue contraindicating CA-EBS use and undertaken a spirometric assessment of the HUET trainee which confirms the HUET trainee has a minimum lung function of FEV1 and FVC > 80% of predicted and FEV1/FVC ratio >70%

AND

c)Satisfied National and/or State medical requirements relating to learners participating in CA-EBS in HUET training.

NOTE 1: All the above requirements must be supported by suitable and sufficient risk assessments.

NOTE 2: Learners must not participate in Additional CA-EBS Training practical exercises if they are unable to meet medical requirements.

NOTE 3: Learners who do not meet the above requirements will be able to successfully complete the Product excluding Outcome 6 and achieve certification

The OPITO-approved Centre shall keep a record of the learner’s declaration of fitness in accordance with their document control policy(s) or procedures.

This information, along with summary details of the type of physical activities the learner will be asked to perform, will be given to learners by the OPITO-approved Centre and, if applicable, to their sponsoring company as part of the joining instructions. The responsibility for declaring any known current or pre-existing medical conditions that could have adverse effects to the individual’s state of health while undertaking the training activities lies with the learner and/or company sponsoring the learner.

Where doubt exists regarding the fitness of any learner, the OPITO-approved Centre should direct the individual to consult a medical officer familiar with the nature and extent of the training.

Practical exercises must be designed and delivered solely to meet this Product, and must not place on the learner any demands other than those required to meet the Product.

To achieve the Shallow Water Compressed Air Emergency Breathing System Initial Deployment Training the learner will need to complete the mandatory unit.

2 hours

The Shallow Water CAEBS ID certificate is valid for up to four years but will only remain valid in conjunction with a valid OPITO T-BOSIET, T-FOET, T-HUET, BOSIET, FOET or HUET with EBS (or Industry agreed equivalent) certificate.

Revalidation of Shallow Water CAEBS ID training must be achieved through subsequent OPITO T-BOSIET with CA-EBS, T-FOET with CA-EBS, T-HUET with CA-EBS or BOSIET/FOET/HUET with CA-EBS certification.