Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for abandonment of the offshore facility
- Acknowledge alarm systems and proceed to muster and/or evacuation area as appropriate
- Make evacuation area safe to ensure likelihood of personal injury or equipment damage is minimised
- Select and apply appropriate personal flotation device (life jacket) and other equipment
- Prepare for evacuation by applying appropriate methods and means of evacuation.
- Abandon the offshore facility
- Deploy safety/rescue equipment in a safe and controlled manner before commencing abandonment.
- Abandon the facility in accordance with relevant safety requirements and procedures
- Enter life raft or other survival craft appropriately
- Depart promptly from the facility using agreed techniques and in a safe and controlled manner.
- Utilise appropriate safe water entry procedures.
- Manage the survival process
- Identify and act upon potential hazards to minimise injury to personnel or damage to equipment
- Manage use of life raft by applying a knowledge of life raft operation and requirements
- Apply suitable swimming techniques (whilst wearing life jacket) in the water in order to aid movement and boarding of the deployed life raft
- Rescue and recover persons in the water, minimising further potential for injury through the appropriate raft boarding and righting techniques
- Employ suitable techniques, both in the life raft (or other survival craft) and in the water, in order to delay the onset of hypothermia
- Assess and treat hypothermia as required.
- Facilitate the recovery process
- Deploy position indicating devices and use appropriate signaling devices to facilitate the location of personnel by air-sea rescue group
- Use emergency supplies and equipment to ensure that available supplies are maximised and are able to meet the nature and extent of the emergency
- Apply appropriate helicopter/vessel rescue techniques to the recovery process.
- Control hazards