STCW
5-Day STCW Basic Safety Training
6 U.S. Coast Guard Approved
6 Defines basic training requirements for maritime employees to work and
stand watch aboard certain maritime vessels that fall under the requirements
prescribed in Regulation VI/I, and Section A-VI/I of STCW ’95.
6 Includes the following 4 training modules:
6 Personal Safety / Social Responsibilities (4 hr)
- Precautions to prevent pollution in the marine environment
- Understanding orders in relation to shipboard duties
- Contributing to effective human relationships on board vessels

6 First Aid/CPR (8 hr)
- Assessment of casualties and threats to own safety
- Body structure and functions
- Positioning of casualty
- Unconscious casualties and resuscitation
- Bleeding and wounds
- Management of shock
- Burns and scalds
- Rescue and transport casualties
- Bandages and use of first aid emergency kit

6 Water Survival (12 hr)
- Survival at sea in the event of ship abandonment
- Types of emergency situations
- Emergency preparedness
- Evaluation procedures
- Use of equipment in survival crafts and rescue boats
- Principles of survival at sea
- Emergency radio equipment
- Water escape techniques
- Survival action once on the surface

6 Basic Fire Fighting (16 hr)
- Shipboard fire fighting procedures and organization
- Theory of fire types
- Sources of ignition fire hazards
- Spread of fire
- Classification of fire and applicable extinguishing systems
- Fire detection and alarm system
- Use of protective equipment (SCBA)
- Exercises in extinguishing fires

6 Modules may be scheduled independently
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