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Small Seasonal Passenger-carrying Vessel Safety (non-certificated personnel)

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9.1 General

There are a large number of non-certificated personnel on vessels who are summer students employed on a short-term basis, many for one season only. This chapter describes vessel-specific, on-board basic safety training to be given when these employees commence their shipboard employment.

9.2 Equipment requirements

1. Safety training manual for each participant;
2. Safety training log for crew members;
3. One approved lifejacket for each participant;
4. One approved life buoy with line;
5. One approved life buoy light;
6. One dry chemical portable extinguisher;
7. One fire hose with water pressure;
8. Steel tray for containing fire;
9. Supply of gasoline and lubricating oil for the fire tray;
10. Hand flares;
11. Visual or audio-visual presentation on:
    1. launching and operation of life rafts / platforms,
    2. nature of fire.

9.3 Duration

Minimum 6 hours including 1.5 hours for practical exercise and 0.5 hours for evaluation, assuming some pre-course reading is assigned. Training providers are cautioned that students who do not complete a certain amount of pre-course reading may require more than 6 hours to complete this course.

9.4 Specific instructor qualifications

The main course instructor must hold a certificate of competency and have completed MED B1 and B2 or MED with respect to STCW Basic Safety. If the course is under the supervision of more than one instructor, the assistant instructors must hold qualifications related to the marine industry or have related skills and be approved in accordance with the Quality Management Manual – Marine Personnel Standards and Pilotage referred to in Chapter 3.

9.5 Goals and criteria

To provide crew members with:

1. a basic understanding of the hazards associated with the marine environment and their own vessel;
2. the knowledge necessary to raise and react to alarms and deal with the initial stage of an emergency;
3. an ability to provide assistance in fire, abandonment and other emergency situations;
4. the knowledge and skills to assist in their own survival and rescue;
5. the ability to knowledgeably follow orders from the vessel’s officers in emergency situations.

9.6 Outline

1. Types of Emergency

• 1. Fire and explosion
• 2. Collision
• 3. Structural failure
• 4. Grounding
• 5. Stranding
• 6. Capsizing
• 7. Weather conditions

Theory: 0.25 hours

2. Emergency Response

• 1. Muster stations and station
• 2. Drill – general alarm
• 3. Fire alarm
• 4. Duties of individuals and groups
• 5. Chain of command
• 6. Location of escape routes
• 7. Response to the discovery of a fire
• 8. Response to person overboard
• 9. Response to flooding
• 10. Response to unconscious casualty / injured person

Theory: 0.5 hours

3. Lifesaving Appliances

• 1. Lifejackets
• 2. Life buoys
• 3. Buoyant apparatus
• 4. Inflatable platforms
• 5. Inflatable life rafts

Theory: 1.0 hour

4. Abandonment and Survival (includes video presentation on life rafts)

• 1. Life rafts / platforms & buoyant apparatus – drills
• 2. Survival: hypothermia, panic, crowd control

Theory: 0.5 hours

5. Rescue (includes video presentation on flares)

• 1. Knowledge and use of flares

Theory: 0.5 hours

6. First Aid

• 1. Emergency response and reporting procedures (not First Aid training as such)

Theory: 0.25 hours

7. Firefighting (includes video presentation)

• 1. Knowledge of on-board hoses and fire hydrants
• 2. Knowledge of dry chemical fire extinguishers
• 3. Hands-on extinguishing of a pan fire using dry chemical extinguisher
• 4. Use of and familiarization with fire hose and nozzle

Theory: 1 hour
Practical: 1.5 hours

8. Evaluation

Theory: 0.5 hours

Total Theory: 4.5 hours
Total Practical: 1.5 hours
Total: 6 hours

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2010-01-19

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