Draft BST- Sea Survival Stakeholder Review

Safety training

GWO Basic Safety Training / V19 02052025

ELEMENT 6.5 - INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE SWIMMING TECHNIQUES

Learning objectives:

35) The participants can perform individual swimming techniques with LSA and PPE donned (Skills, intermediate level)

36) The participants can take responsibility for supporting other participants while applying collective swimming techniques (Ability, intermediate level)

37) The participants can solve how to minimise the risk of hypothermia while in the water (Ability, basic level)

The instructor shall:

Guide the participants in the water in relation to individual and collective swimming and the responsibility of supporting the person next to you in the water

Guide the participants in the water in practising individual and collective positions to minimize the risk of hypothermia (heat escape lessening posture (‘HELP’)

The participants shall:

Follow the instructors’ guidance and practise individual and collective swimming techniques and positions to reduce hypothermia

ELEMENT 6.6 - CORRECT USAGE OF LIFE RAFT

Learning objectives:

38) The participants can take responsibility for ensuring the correct use of a life raft in an emergency at sea (Ability, intermediate level)

39) The participants can explain how to recover a nearby casualty in the water (Knowledge, intermediate level)

40) The participants can describe how to right a capsized life raft (Knowledge, basic level)

41) The participants can describe equipment in a life raft (Knowledge, basic level)

42) The participants can describe actions to enhance detection at sea (Knowledge, basic level)

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