OPITO Product 5507
Tropical Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training (T-BOSIET)
Digital Delivery
A blended offshore safety-training pathway that allows learners to complete the underpinning T-BOSIET knowledge online before attending an OPITO-approved training centre to formally demonstrate the required practical and emergency-response outcomes.
Product 5507 is designed for personnel new or returning to the offshore oil and gas industry who choose to complete the knowledge component of Tropical BOSIET through the approved online programme before attending a training centre for assessment.
1 Day
4
Initial
4 Year
8 Guided learning hours
Mandatory units
Offshore Safety Training Digital and Practical
Validity
Validity
4 years
Product Type
OPITO Approved Course
Trainers
OPITO Certified and years of experience
Progression
Tropical FOET
(T-FOET)
Learn Digitally. Perform in Practice.
01 — Understand the Offshore Environment
Recognise how offshore oil and gas operations function, identify their characteristic hazards and understand how risk is managed through engineering, procedural and behavioural controls.
02 — Prepare for Helicopter Emergencies
Understand offshore helicopter travel, recognise emergency situations and develop the practical actions required for emergency landing, ditching and underwater escape.
03 — Survive Evacuation and Provide Immediate Aid
Understand offshore evacuation systems, survival craft, in-water survival, rescue arrangements and the immediate first-aid actions required before specialist medical help arrives.
04 — Respond to Fire and Smoke
Understand offshore fire hazards, raise the alarm, operate portable extinguishers and demonstrate self-rescue when visibility is reduced or completely obscured.
Why Digital Delivery?
Learn the knowledge first. Use the centre for competence.
Digital Delivery changes where the underpinning knowledge is learned. It does not remove the practical competence requirement.
Before attending the training centre, the learner completes all prescribed online elements of the T-BOSIET programme. At the OPITO-approved centre, that knowledge is then connected to practical performance through formal assessment of the required outcomes.
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 5507 Right For you?
Personnel beginning—or returning to—the offshore industry who prefer to complete the knowledge component online.
Product 5507 is intended for personnel who need to meet the initial offshore safety and emergency-response training requirements for work in the offshore oil and gas industry in a tropical operating environment.
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
Complete the underpinning T-BOSIET knowledge online, then attend an OPITO-approved centre to demonstrate the practical emergency-response competence required for offshore work in a tropical environment. Develop competence across offshore safety induction, helicopter emergency response and HUET, sea survival, emergency 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-349
3 H 15 M
Helicopter Safety and Escape — Tropical — Digital Delivery
Develop practical competence for offshore helicopter travel, rebreather EBS operation and underwater escape following ditching.
Learners build a clear understanding of offshore helicopter travel, including pre-flight requirements, safe boarding, in-flight conduct, emergency communication, brace positions, escape routes, aviation lifejacket use and liferaft actions. The focus is on recognising an emergency early, following crew instructions and preparing correctly for a forced landing or ditching.
Practical training develops controlled escape competence through dry evacuation, ditching, partial submersion and capsize exercises, including push-out-window use. Learners then apply the key principles of underwater orientation, restraint release, egress and immediate post-escape survival, including lifejacket inflation, spray-visor deployment and boarding an aviation liferaft.
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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.
Suraksha Marine HUET Simulator
Train the escape in a controlled helicopter environment.
Product 5507 requires a HUET capable of reproducing representative offshore-helicopter escape conditions.
The training provides 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 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 5507 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 5507 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.
The value of Digital Delivery is not that it replaces instructor-led training. It is that it allows the learner to arrive with the essential knowledge already established. The practical training environment can then focus on converting understanding into action
Offshore Preparedness Begins Before the Flight
Build the offshore safety knowledge before arriving at the centre—then convert that knowledge into demonstrated emergency-response competence through HUET, sea survival, first aid, firefighting and self-rescue.
Learn Online. Train Practically. Demonstrate Competence.
Learn the system.
Practice the sequence.
Demonstrate competence.
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