FIRE TEAM MEMBER TRAINING
Helideck Fire Team Member Training
The main objective of the Helideck Fire Team Member Training is to give Helideck Attendants knowledge that will enable them carry out emergency response actions incorporating fire fighting situations and rescue at the helideck. At the end of the training delegates should be able to:
- Select and use firefighting equipment as appropriate to helideck emergencies
- Extinguish fires on the helideck
- Locating and rescue casualties trapped in a crashed helicopter
- Use BAs and associated equipment
Training Duration:
The Helideck Fire Team Member Training has a duration of two days. This includes classroom presentations, discussion, exercises and role plays. We can organise the training onsite in Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Central African Republic, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea
Training Prerequisite:
To attend this Helideck Fire Team Member Training, participants must have completed a training course on basic fire fighting or have some experience in structural fire fighting. Ability to write and understand basic English or French is an added advantage
Who will Benefit from this Training
This Helideck Fire Team Member Training is suitable for employees who have been appointed to manage emergencies on helidecks. It will be of great benefit to the HLO, helideck assistants, safety representatives/officers, rig medics and other helideck attendants
Training Course Content
- Helideck accidents
- Helicopter Hazards
- Legislation applicable to helidecks
- Helicopter Legislation
- Regulations for the Carriage of Dangerous Goods
- Helicopter construction material
- Helideck construction, features and markings
- Flash point and auto ignition of helideck and helicopter materials
- Reaction of helideck materials to fires
- Helicopter fuel types and characteristics
- Helicopter crash fire and rescue technique
- Hazards of elevated heliports/helipads
- Emergency response tactics in NUI and elevated heliports/helipads
- Inspection, donning 02 monitoring of the breathing Apparatus
- Helideck foam application tactics.
- Types of foam and equipement layout
- Casualty handling
- Using a stretcher.
- Casualty transportation techniques
