Basic Safety Training (BST)

Individual Course / Workboat Mate, Tug & Barge Program

Length 5 Days Approval USCG/STCW Location MITAGS - Onsite Training Method Lecture/Practical Simulation None Equipment Liferaft, Lifejackets, Immersion suits Pre-requisite Good health and the physical ability to safely carry out rigorous activities during “live” fire fighting exercises. Individual Course Yes Part of Program Yes Price of Program $1,500.00

Liferaft excercise with crewmembers donning  immersion suits.

Course Description

This is required by the STCW '95 code for all mariners with safety or pollution control duties. Basic Safety Training combines all four elements of basic safety into a 5-day program. Training may be taken individually  depending on attendee's needs. These courses are designed for seafarers in order to provide immediate life-saving first aid until the arrival of first–aiders of greater training.  This course is created to meet the standards of competency in elementary first aid, fire fighting, personal safety and personal survival.

This course satisfies the following STCW95 and CFR training requirements:

• Table Section A-VI/1 paragraph 2.1.2,
• 46 CFR 11.205 (l) (4)  Formerly 10.205(i)(4)
• 46 CFR 11.202 (b) (1) .Formerly 10.202(b)(1)
• 46 CFR 11.202(b)(2)  Formerly 10.202 (b)(2)
• 46 CFR 11.202(b)(3) Formerly 10.202 (b)(3)
• 46 CFR 11.205(d) Formerly 10.205 (d)
• 46 CFR 11.205(e)(l)(ii) Formerly 10.205 (e)(i)(ii)
• 46 CFR 11.205(e)(2)(iii) Formerly 10.205 (e)(2)(iii)
• 46 CFR 11.401(g)(1) Formerly 10.401 (g)(1)
• 46 CFR 13.201(e)
• 46 CFR 13.301(e)
• 46 CFR 13.401(e)
• 46 CFR 13.501(e)

What You Will Learn

• Compliance with Emergency Procedures
• Safe Working Practices, Preventing Marine Pollution
• Effective Shipboard Communications, Effective Human Relations
• Types of Emergencies
• Emergency Communications, Emergency Equipment
• Hypothermia and Human Performance
• CPR and Emergency Medical Overview
• Proper use of PFDs, Immersion Suits, Liferaft, Abandon Ship Gear
• Basic Firefighting
• Understand the relationship of the fire tetrahedron to extinguish fire
• Extinguish a flammable liquid fire using various types of fire suppression agents
• Basic Patient transport

What You Should Bring

• Comfortable clothes
• Closed toed shoes
• Clothes that are suitable to wear to a fire fighting class
• Swimsuit
• Student must be clean shaven for the SCBA portion in order to create a good seal

There are no pre-requisites for this class, but this course includes strenous physical avtivity.  Mariners must be physcially fit and capable of moderate swimming exertion