Emergency procedures 1Laajuus (1 cr)

Objective

Knowledge and understanding of and proficiency in:
- preventing, controlling and fighting fires onboard
- actions related to emergencies and launching of rescue boats and survival crafts, and using life-saving appliances
- organizing emergency drills
- taking correct and immediate actions in distress situations
- acting immediately and correctly in accident situations and accurately evaluating injury or damage
- procedures for rescuing people from the sea and assisting a ship in distress

Content

- principles of safety management and risk evaluation
- emergency management and contingency plans
- actions and procedures in distress situations
- fire fighting, fire fighting drills, fire ratings, fire fighting equipment, life-saving and associated drills
- life-saving appliances and devices
- SOLAS chapter III
- emergency management of passengers onboard
- principles of sea rescue (IAMSAR)
- IMO signals

Qualifications

- Personal survival techniques (A-VI/1-1)
- Fire fighting (A-VI/1-2)
- Proficiency in survival craft and rescue boats (A-VI/2-1)

Materials

- Advanced fire fighting (A-VI/3)
- Simulator training at the operational level 2
- Approved training during studies

Accomplishment methods

Students can
- use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations
- identify interrelated tasks
- use the key models, methods, software and techniques of the professional field
- work as team members in a goal-oriented way

In addition, competence evaluation according to STCW code tables A-II/1, A-III/1 and A-III/6 columns 4 are used:
- actions in responding to abandon ship and survival situations are appropriate to the prevailing circumstances and conditions and comply with accepted safety practices and standards
- the type and scale of the problem is promptly identified and initial actions conform with the emergency procedure and contingency plans for the ship