Safety training
GWO Basic Safety Training / V19 02052025
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)
Treatment of hypothermia is covered in the GWO BST First Aid Training Module
Note
The instructor shall:
Explain and demonstrate:
a.
inflation of life raft (may be presented on video)
b.
righting a capsized life raft
c.
methods of entering a life raft
d.
immediate and further actions in a life raft
e.
the equipment in life rafts
f.
recovery of a nearby casualty in the water
g. actions to enhance detection at sea, including relevant distress signals
Provide constructive feedback on the participants ability to take responsibility for ensuring the correct use of a life raft
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