OPITO Product 5850
Further Offshore Emergency Training with Compressed Air Emergency Breathing System (FOET with CA-EBS)
Product 5850 refreshes and revalidates the practical emergency-response skills required by personnel working offshore. It provides learners with the opportunity to rehearse and demonstrate safety-critical actions that cannot normally be practised during routine offshore drills—including helicopter underwater escape, CA-EBS use, firefighting, self-rescue in obscured visibility and immediate emergency first aid.
The Product is an OPITO Standard within the Oil and Gas / Basic Emergency Response category and is intended for personnel working in the offshore oil and gas industry who will be supplied with a Compressed Air Emergency Breathing System (CA-EBS) during offshore helicopter travel.
1 Day
3
CA-EBS
4 Year
8 Guided learning hours
Mandatory units
Compressed Air Emergency Breathing Pathways
Validity
Validity
4 years
Product Type
OPITO Approved Course
Trainers
OPITO Certified and years of experience
Eligibility
Valid eligible OPITO certificate
Training to Refresh, Rehearse and Revalidate Offshore Response
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01 — Refresh CA-EBS Readiness
Re-establish confidence in CA-EBS checks, correct donning, one-handed deployment, mouthpiece control, purging and demand-valve use, while reinforcing the hazards associated with compressed-air breathing.
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02 — Rehearse Helicopter Escape
Practise the actions required before and during a helicopter emergency, including exit location, ditching preparation and controlled escape from partially submerged and capsized helicopter scenarios.
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03 — Strengthen Fire & Self-Rescue Response
Refresh the correct response to fire, operate portable extinguishers effectively and practise individual and small-group escape in reduced and completely obscured visibility.
04 — Reinforce Emergency First Aid
Refresh the immediate actions required to assess the scene, raise the alarm, protect the casualty and perform basic first aid until further medical assistance becomes available.
Entry Certificate Requirements
An eligible in-date OPITO certificate is required.
Three connected areas of further emergency competence.
The Product Standard identifies Product 5850 as open to learners holding a valid, in-date OPITO-approved certificate from eligible BOSIET, Tropical BOSIET, FOET and Tropical FOET pathways, including EBS and recognised CA-EBS variants listed by the Standard.
The training centre must be able to provide evidence that these prerequisite requirements were satisfied if requested by OPITO.
BOSIET
OPITO Approved Certificate
Tropical BOSIET
OPITO Approved Certificate
FOET
OPITO Approved Certificate
Tropical FOET
OPITO Approved Certificate
Is 5850 Right For You?
Offshore personnel returning for further emergency-response training.
Product 5850 is intended for personnel already working in the offshore oil and gas industry who require further offshore safety and emergency-response training and who will be supplied with CA-EBS during offshore helicopter travel.
It is not an entry-level offshore course. Learners must arrive with an eligible valid, in-date OPITO certificate and use the Product to refresh and demonstrate competence previously developed through their offshore safety-training pathway.
Training requirements can vary by operator, region and aviation arrangement.
Before booking, confirm your requirement with your employer, operator or mobilisation team.
For Personnel working Offshore
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Requires an eligible in-date OPITO qualification
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Designed to refresh, practice, and demonstrate skills
Three Mandatory Units
The Product gives learners the opportunity to practise and demonstrate emergency skills that are difficult or impossible to reproduce through routine offshore drills.
01
OIS-80
4 H 15 M
Further Helicopter Safety and Escape CA-EBS
Refresh and demonstrate the helicopter emergency, and underwater-escape skills required by offshore personnel travelling with a CA-EBS Breathing System.
OIS-80 is the largest component of Product 5850. It refreshes the learner's understanding and practical use of Compressed Air Emergency Breathing System equipment before progressing into helicopter emergency preparation, dry evacuation, underwater escape, post-egress survival and additional in-water CA-EBS exercises. The unit begins by refreshing the operating principles of Compressed Air Emergency Breathing Systems and the distinction between CA-EBS and other emergency breathing systems used offshore, including rebreather systems.
02
OIS-74
2 H 35 M
Further Firefighting and Self Rescue
Refresh the practical response required when personnel discover fire or must escape from environments affected by smoke, heat and loss of visibility.
The Product places emphasis on raising the alarm and operating portable firefighting equipment correctly. Every learner must practise using both water or foam and CO₂ extinguishers. Demonstrations use appropriate Class A and Class B fire scenarios, with LPG simulation permitted for learner practice where applicable. The unit then moves into self-rescue, where learners demonstrate escape under reduced visibility, completely obscured visibility and small-group conditions concluding with muster. Pasted text
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03
OIS-75
1 H 00 M
Further Emergency First Aid
Refresh the immediate first-aid actions required before a medic or qualified first aider becomes available.
This module is specifically intended to enhance the knowledge and skills developed during previous BOSIET or FOET training, rather than repeat the full initial-learning programme. Learners revisit emergency first-aid arrangements, prioritisation and immediate response to injuries including bleeding, burns and chemical contact. The focus is on making the situation safe, identifying immediate priorities and taking appropriate action until additional medical support becomes available. Pasted text
Why the CA-EBS Pathway Matters
Train for the breathing system you may actually use offshore.
Travelling offshore involves a combination of hazards that many personnel may not encounter in conventional workplaces.
The worker must understand the offshore operating environment, recognise major hazards and controls, know how to respond to alarms and emergency instructions, travel safely by helicopter, use aviation survival equipment correctly and respond appropriately if an aircraft ditches. Product 5850 brings these competencies together within one structured initial-training pathway.
The OPITO-defined objectives include identifying offshore hazards and their controls, understanding offshore safety regulation and safety-management principles, demonstrating correct CA-EBS use, completing simulated helicopter emergency and escape exercises, demonstrating sea-survival and first-aid techniques, and using basic firefighting and self-rescue techniques in reduced-visibility environments.
System
Understanding
Operating
Duration
Flotation
Dynamics
Integrated
Egress
CA-EBS Technical Focus
Understand the system before you depend on it.
Product 5850 develops specific knowledge of:
Equipment Components
Cylinder, demand valve, mouthpiece, hose, pressure indicator and other applicable operating controls.
Equipment Condition
How to conduct pre-use checks and confirm correct operating status.
Donning
How to correctly fit the aviation lifejacket and CA-EBS system.
Deployment
How to deploy the mouthpiece and nose clip using one hand.
Breathing
How to establish an effective mouthpiece seal and breathe through the demand valve.
Recovery
How to clear water and recover from a displaced mouthpiece.
Limitations
Understanding risks such as loss of air, improper purging, running out of air and hazards associated with compressed-air breathing.
The learner then progresses into practical use.
CA-EBS Shallow-Water Familiarisation
Build breathing-system competence progressively.
The Product includes dedicated CA-EBS exercises in shallow water at a maximum depth of 0.7 metres measured at the chest.
Learners practice: deployment above the water, deployment below the surface, clearing the mouthpiece by exhalation, using the purge function, deployment using opposite hands, breathing underwater vertically and moving underwater while breathing from CA-EBS.
01
Know the system and how it works.
Understand
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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
Refresh the
Knowledge
Rehearse the
Response
Demonstrate the
Competence
Suraksha Marine HUET Simulator
Train the escape in a controlled helicopter environment.
At Suraksha Marine, HUET practical training is delivered using a purpose-built helicopter underwater escape simulator designed to support controlled submersion, inversion and emergency egress exercises.
Product 5850 requires HUET systems to include representative helicopter seating and restraints, push-out windows, controlled lowering, at least 180° rotation, emergency stopping capability and rapid retrieval.
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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
01
Dry Evacuation
Evacuate from a helicopter ditched on water into an aviation liferaft.
03
Partial Submersion + Push-Out Window
Escape through the underwater opening with operation of the push-out window.
02
Partial Submersion
Escape through an underwater window opening from a partially submerged helicopter without operating a push-out window.
04
Capsize
Escape through an underwater window opening from a capsized helicopter without operating a push-out window.
These variations form part of the practical Product 5850 HUET sequence.
HUET Escape Progression
Increase the challenge one element at a time.
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
Push-Out Window Competence
Operate the exit before the most complex scenario.
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.
This is a good example of progressive competence development.
Aviation Liferaft
From Egress to Survival Craft
Product 5850 includes both dry evacuation into an aviation liferaft and liferaft boarding from the water.
Learners revisit initial liferaft actions including:
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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
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Lookout Arrangements
Radio-beacon
activation
First-aid equipment awareness
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
Commercial-diving requirements applicable to the country of delivery must be followed for shallow-water CA-EBS and CA-EBS HUET training.
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.
Product 5850 contains activities that may be physically demanding and potentially stressful.
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 appropriate screening through the OPITO-approved centre.
Additional CA-EBS requirement
The shallow-water CA-EBS exercises have additional medical requirements.
Learners deemed medically unfit for this element must not participate in the additional CA-EBS shallow-water practical exercises.
Medical eligibility should be confirmed before booking.
Why Suraksha Marine
Further training should put critical skills back into action.
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Real CA-EBS Equipment: Refresh the actual equipment sequence through inspection, donning, deployment and underwater use.
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Advanced HUET Simulation: Rehearse partial-submersion and capsized helicopter escape in a controlled simulator environment.
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Practical Training Focus: FOET concentrates on skills that are difficult or impossible to practise during normal offshore drills.
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Structured Supervision: In-water activities are supported by dedicated instructor, dive and pool-safety personnel.
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Connected Emergency Response: HUET, CA-EBS, survival, firefighting, self-rescue and first aid are treated as connected emergency competencies.
FURTHER TRAINING. ACTIVE COMPETENCE.
Revalidate offshore emergency competence through CA-EBS familiarisation, controlled HUET escape, compressed-air in-water training, practical firefighting, smoke self-rescue and emergency first aid.
Refresh. Rehearse. Demonstrate.
Returns to the simulator.
Returns to inversion.
Returns to underwater egress.
Returns to fire response.
Returns to obscured-visibility escape.
And demonstrates that these critical actions can still be performed.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
