Course Overview:

The purpose of this training course is to prepare appointed persons with the knowledge and understanding to act a leader within an emergency offshore.

The individual should recognise, however, that this is only part of a broader training programme, alongside company and installation-specific emergency response training, most of which will be conducted offshore on a regular basis as drills and exercises.

NOTE – This is the initial ENTRY LEVEL course for the Offshore Emergency Response Team Leader. For those requiring the refresher or revalidation course, please visit our course page below:

Further Offshore Emergency Response Team Leader (FOERTL)

Course Content:

By the end of the course, delegates should be able to:

• Understand the role and explain the key responsibilities of the Emergency Response Team Leader
• Know the purpose of typical response arrangements and procedures
• Carryout emergency response planning effectively, including requirements for PPE, setting priorities and objectives to the response teams
• Monitor human and environmental factors during an emergency
• Carryout dynamic risk assessments
• Delegate tasks to the Offshore Emergency Response Team (OERT) effectively
• Communicate effectively with relevant emergency response personnel
• Lead the OERT in a clear and confident manner
• Look for and respond accordingly to signs of stress in individual ERT members during the emergency
• Effectively monitor breathing apparatus (BA) control
• Lead the OERT during fire and non-fire incidents effectively
• Conduct missing persons and casualty management effectively during the emergency

Entry Requirements:

A valid Initial Offshore Emergency Response Team Member Training (OERTM) certificate OR A valid Further Offshore Emergency Response Team Member Training (FOERTM) certificate.

Certification:

Delegates are issued with an OPITO Offshore Emergency Response Team Leader Certificate upon completion.