OPITO Product 5703
BOSIET with Emergency Breathing System (EBS)
(Digital Delivery)
OPITO Product 5703 provides the initial offshore safety and emergency-response pathway for personnel who are new to, or returning to, the offshore oil and gas industry and who will be supplied with a rebreather Emergency Breathing System (EBS) during offshore helicopter travel.
The Digital Delivery pathway allows learners to complete the underpinning BOSIET knowledge through the approved online programme before attending an OPITO-approved training centre for formal assessment of all required outcomes.
1 Day
4
EBS
4 Year
8H Guided learning hours
Mandatory units
Rebreather EBS Pathways
Validity
Validity
4 years
Product Type
OPITO Approved Course
Trainers
OPITO Certified and years of experience
Progression
FOET with
EBS
Learn Digitally. Perform in Practice.
01 — Build the Knowledge
Complete the digital learning required to understand the offshore environment, hazards and emergency-response principles.
02 — Prepare to Escape
Translate helicopter-safety knowledge into practical emergency preparation, EBS use and HUET escape competence.
03 — Survive the Emergency
Practise the actions required for evacuation, liferaft survival, in-water response, recovery and immediate first aid.
04 — Demonstrate the Response
Apply firefighting and self-rescue skills under instructor supervision and demonstrate the required practical outcomes.
Why Digital Delivery?
Learn the knowledge first. Use the centre for competence.
Digital Delivery changes how the underpinning knowledge is introduced, not the practical competence that must ultimately be demonstrated.
The learner completes the approved online programme before attending the training centre. At the centre, theoretical understanding is verified and practical competence is demonstrated using the required equipment, survival facilities and simulated emergency environments.
Understand it. Practice it. Perform it.
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ONLINE KNOWLEDGE
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EQUIPMENT FAMILIARISATION
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FORMAL ASSESSMENT
What Does Product 5703 Develop?
The course is designed to prepare learners for the fundamental hazards and emergency situations associated with offshore work.
Learners develop the ability to identify generic offshore hazards, understand how risk is controlled, recognise the basic offshore regulatory and safety-management framework, prepare for helicopter emergencies, use rebreather EBS equipment, escape following ditching, survive after evacuation, provide immediate first aid and respond to fire and smoke-affected environments.
IS 5703 Right For you?
Helicopter emergency training for personnel travelling offshore with EBS.
Digital Delivery changes how the underpinning knowledge is introduced, not the practical competence that must ultimately be demonstrated.
The learner completes the approved online programme before attending the training centre. At the centre, theoretical understanding is verified and practical competence is demonstrated using the required equipment, survival facilities and simulated emergency environments.
The Product requires the learner to attend the approved centre for formal assessment within 90 days of completing the online elements.
Helicopter Travel
Required for Personnel travelling by Helicopter to offshore installations.
Tropical Environment
Designed for tropical offshore conditions and operating challenges.
New or Returning
Ideal for those new to, or returning to, offshore industry operations.
Foundation for Safety
Build essential offshore safety skills confident and competent travel.
Four Mandatory Units
OPITO defines T-BOSIET as the initial offshore safety and emergency-response programme for personnel entering or returning to the offshore oil and gas industry in tropical environments. The Product combines offshore safety awareness with the essential emergency-response knowledge and practical skills associated with helicopter travel, survival at sea, first aid, firefighting and self-rescue.
01
OIS-69
30 M
Safety Induction — Digital Delivery
Build the knowledge foundation required to understand how offshore work is organised, controlled and performed safely.
Learners are introduced to the offshore oil and gas environment, including drilling, production, construction, accommodation and specialist-vessel operations, together with key hazards such as pressure, machinery, H₂S, electricity, suspended loads, work at height, hazardous atmospheres and confined spaces. The unit also explains how these risks are managed through Safe Systems of Work, the hierarchy of controls, isolation, PPE, Permit to Work, personal responsibility and safety observations, alongside core offshore concepts such as Safety Case principles, safety-critical systems, ALARP, communication, drills and incident reporting.
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02
OIS-70
3 H 15 M
Helicopter Safety & Escape — Digital Delivery
Develop practical competence for offshore helicopter travel, rebreather EBS operation and underwater escape following ditching.
The unit prepares learners for offshore helicopter travel, emergency response and underwater escape, covering transit suits, lifejackets, restraints, brace positions, flotation, emergency exits, push-out windows, aviation liferafts and rebreather EBS. Practical training progresses from EBS checks and dry deployment to pool familiarisation and HUET, including dry evacuation, partial-submersion and capsize exercises with and without EBS and push-out-window operation, followed by lifejacket inflation, spray-visor deployment and liferaft boarding.
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03
OIS-71
2 H 30 M
Sea Survival and First Aid — Digital Delivery
Develop practical survival and immediate-response capability following offshore evacuation or helicopter egress.
Learners develop competence in offshore evacuation, sea survival and recovery, including station bills, alarms, muster and escape routes, temporary refuge, abandonment systems, TEMPSC, tertiary escape and offshore search-and-rescue arrangements. Practical training includes TEMPSC boarding, controlled water entry, helicopter recovery, individual and group survival, marine-liferaft boarding and immediate first aid for injuries such as bleeding, burns, chemical exposure and heat or cold exposure.
04
OIS-72
1 H 45 M
Firefighting and Self Rescue — Digital Delivery
Develop the basic firefighting and self-rescue competence required when offshore fire, smoke or heat affects the normal operating environment.
Learners develop competence in offshore fire response, firefighting and self-rescue, including common fire causes, combustion, heat transfer, firefighting media and fixed fire and gas-detection systems. Practical training includes using water or foam and CO₂ extinguishers, raising the alarm and evacuating when required, before progressing to smoke-hood use and individual and group escape in reduced or fully obscured visibility.
Why the Rebreather EBS Pathway Matters
Train for the breathing system you may actually use offshore.
Product 5703 is built around the rebreather EBS pathway. Learners develop an understanding of the system, its operating duration, flotation dynamics and correct donning and operation before integrating EBS into helicopter emergency and underwater escape exercises.
EBS Technical Focus
Understand the system before you depend on it.
The EBS element develops an understanding of:
EBS operating principles
How the system provides emergency breathing capability.
Duration
Why the available breathing period must be understood.
Flotation Dynamics
How body orientation and the equipment interact in water.
Donning & Operation
How the EBS is correctly fitted, checked and operated.
The learner then progresses into practical use.
Experience how EBS behaves in the water.
Learners deploy, operate and breathe from the EBS in a controlled pool environment.The exercise specifically requires the learner to experience the positive and negative pressure effects created by body orientation in water.
This establishes familiarity before EBS is integrated into more demanding underwater helicopter escape exercises.
01
Know the system and how it works.
Understand
02
Wear it correctly and Securely.
Don
03
Complete allpre-use checks.
Check
04
Deploy in the exercise.
Deploy
05
Breathe correctly and stay calm.
Breathe
06
Escape safely and follow instructions.
Escape
Suraksha Marine HUET Simulator
Train the escape in a controlled helicopter environment.
Product 5703 requires a HUET capable of reproducing representative offshore-helicopter escape conditions.
The trainer must provide at least four learner seats plus space for an instructor, a push-out window for each learner, representative window dimensions, controlled lowering onto and below the water, and the ability to rotate at least 180° in a controlled manner. It must also include an emergency stop or brake, rapid retrieval capability, representative helicopter seating and restraints, emergency learner-release arrangements and a nominated helicopter-style exit.
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6 Training Positions
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4 Passengers +
2 Cockpit Positions
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Multiple Push-Out Emergency Windows
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Representative Restraint Systems
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Controlled 180° Inversion
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Dedicated Lowering
& Recovery System
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Controlled Environment
Safe, repeateble conditions for effective learning.
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Progressive Escape Training
Build skills and confidence through structure scenarios
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Operational Realism
Realistic systems and motions that mirror field conditions
What HUET is Really Training
FOUR SKILLS.
One Outcome.
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Reference
Maintain a physical point of orientation
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Orientation
Recognise body and cabin position after movement
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Release
Release restraint at the appropriate stage
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Egress
Locate and pass through the nominated exit
These variations form part of the practical Product 5700 HUET sequence.
HUET Escape Progression
Build the escape sequence progressively.
HUET training increases in complexity as learners develop confidence and competence.
The minimum HUET team includes:
Lead Instructor
Crane/Hoist Operator or Dive Supervisor
OPITO HUET Divers
Pool Safety Person
01
Partial
Submersion
Escape without EBS.
04
Capsize
Escape from the inverted helicopter.
02
Partial
Submersion + EBS
Deploy, operate and breathe from EBS during escape.
05
Capsize + EBS
Breathe correctly and stay calm.
03
Partial Submersion + EBS + Push-Out Window
Integrate breathing-system operation with exit removal.
06
Capsize + EBS + Push-Out Window
Escape safely and follow instructions.
Push-Out Window Competence
Establish the exit skill before the final capsize exercise.
An important assessment detail within the Product Standard is that although push-out windows are fitted for the final capsize exercise, the learner's ability to push out the window is assessed during the partial-submersion exercise.
Demonstrate the exit action before adding the full inversion sequence.
Aviation Liferaft
The emergency continues after leaving the cabin.
Product 5703 includes both dry evacuation into an aviation liferaft and liferaft boarding from the water.
Learners understand the location, operation and use of aviation liferafts.
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Secure mooring lines
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Deploying the sea anchor
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Raising the canopy
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Raft maintenance
Swimming Ability
You do not need to hide your swimming ability.
These groups must be clearly
identified during pool exercises.
The standard recognises: swimmers, weak swimmers and designated non-swimmers.
A maximum of two designated non-swimmer learners may participate in any one HUET pool exercise.
Inform Suraksha Marine of your swimming ability before practical training.
Shoulder Breadth Measurement
Where required locally, learners should hold a valid Shoulder Breadth Measurement before offshore helicopter travel.
Shoulder Breadth Measurement may be required depending on the applicable offshore aviation regime. Confirm your mobilisation requirement before booking.
Medical Requirements
Be fit for the practical demands of training.
The programme contains physically demanding and potentially stressful activities.
Learners must satisfy an acceptable
medical-entry route, which may include:
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valid offshore medical;
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employer-approved equivalent;
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fitness-to-work-at-sea certificate;
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medical fitness for diving at work;
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or medical screening by the OPITO-approved centre.
The learner and/or sponsoring company is responsible for declaring known medical conditions that could adversely affect participation. Where fitness is uncertain, the Centre should refer the learner to a medical professional familiar with the demands of the training.
Why Suraksha Marine
Learn the knowledge first. Use the centre for competence.
At Suraksha Marine, Digital Delivery is treated as the beginning of the learning pathway—not the end. When learners arrive at the centre, the focus moves from online understanding into equipment familiarity, instructor demonstration, controlled simulation and observed practical performance.
Across helicopter escape, EBS, sea survival, first aid, firefighting and self-rescue, the objective is to help learners convert what they have learned online into practical actions that can be performed correctly under controlled emergency conditions.
Offshore Preparedness Begins Before the Flight
Product 5703 connects offshore safety knowledge, rebreather EBS operation, helicopter escape, survival and emergency response into one structured training pathway.
Learn Online. Train Practically. Demonstrate Competence.
Learn the system.
Practice the sequence.
Demonstrate competence.
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