Emergency procedures 1Laajuus (2 cr)

Objective

Knowledge, understanding and proficiency of:
- Prevent, control and fight fires onboard
- Actions in emergencies and launching of rescue boats and survival crafts and using other life-saving appliances
- Organize emergency drills
- Take correct and immediate actions in different distresses
- Conduct immediate control and evaluation of injuries
- Procedures to rescue persons in 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 different distresses, 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, IMO -signals.
Includes a course of Advanced Training of Fire Fighting (STCW A-VI/3)

Evaluation

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.

Qualifications

- Personal survival techniques 1 (A-VI/1-1)
- Fire fighting 1 (A-VI/1-2)