STCW 95 Basic Safety Training

Course details

CMSE Training provides a combined course covering all five mandatory STCW courses over a period of 6 consecutive days. CMSE Training are approved by the Irish Department of Transport to deliver the Marine STCW Training Course Package at our facility in Cork Harbour.

The package covers five STCW approved courses as follows:

• Elementary Marine STCW First Aid
• Personal Safety & Social Responsibility (PSSR) STCW
• Personal Survival Techniques (PST) STCW
• Basic Marine STCW Fire Fighting
• Security Awareness STCW

All these courses are mandatory for sea going personnel. CMSE Training have successfully delivered courses to hundreds of sea-going personnel from Ireland, the UK and all over Europe.

Benefits of the Combined Course

This combined course allows sea-going personnel to attend all five mandatory STCW courses in one week. The combined course is of great benefit to both attendees and employers as it eliminates the need to travel to different venues and on different dates. Travel time, cost and overall duration is reduced substantially by combining the courses.

Course Objectives

To give basic STCW required training in Personal Survival Technique (PST), Personal Safety and Social Responsibility (PSSR), Basic First Aid, Basic Ship Security and Basic Fire Training. The training course provides mandatory training to allow sea going personnel with the basic knowledge required to take up sea-going employment.

Target Audience

This combined STCW course is aimed at ALL seafaring personnel. All seafarers must pass all five elements of this course before going to sea. These STCW courses are a mandatory requirement.

Course Contents

Day 1: Personal Safety & Social Responsibility (PSSR) & Security Awareness - 1 day

• Complying with emergency procedures
• Taking precautions to prevent pollution of the marine environment
• Observing safe working practices
• Understanding orders and being understood in relation to shipboard duties
• Contributing to effective human relationship on board ship
• Maritime security threats
• Maritime security levels
• The ship security assessment
• Interaction with vessels, authorities and ports
• Training, drills and exercises
• Suspicious persons and behaviour and circumvention of security
• Practical protective measures and contingency planning
• Documents, records, communications and confidentiality

Day 2: Personal Survival Techniques (PST) - 1 day

• Introduction – Safety & Survival
• Emergency situations
• Evacuation
• Survival craft and rescue boats
• Personal life-saving appliances
• Personal life-saving appliances (demonstrations)
• Survival at sea
• Emergency radio equipment lecture and demonstrations
• Helicopter assistance
• Practical sessions including live fire fighting

Day 3: Elementary First Aid - 1 day

• Introduction – General principles, chain of survival, scene safety, responsibilities of first aider
• Body structure and functions
• Positioning of casualty
• The unconscious casualty
• Resuscitation
• Bleeding
• Management of shock
• Burns and scalds, Accidents caused by electricity
• Rescue and transport of a casualty

Days 4 - 6: Basic Marine Fire Fighting - 3 days

• Theory of combustion
• Hydrocarbon fires
• Fire hazard and risks
• Protective clothing
• Fire hose and fittings
• Fire extinguishers
• Suppression systems
• Fire prevention
• Breathing apparatus
• Equipment maintenance
• Search & rescue procedures
• Ship fire fighting
• Fire investigations
• Practicable sessions including live fire fighting