API RP T-7:1995 pdf download.Training of Personnel in Rescue of Persons in Water
1 Scope
This Recommended Practice applies to personnel who work offshore and represents an industry guide for training personnel in techniques for rescuing persons from the water and from survival devices in the water. It broadly identifies rescue devices, describes their operations, and presents rec- ommendations for training personnel in their use as either a rescuer or a person being rescued. These training recom- mendations are designed to develop personnel rescue profi- ciency while minimizing an individual’s exposure to injury or loss of life. The training may be either hands-on or classroom based. Some suggested approaches are included. The Recom- mended Practice encourages the employer, when deciding the conditions under which training and drills are to be car- ried out, to fully consider all safety aspects of the training. Training should be as broad as is practical. It should empha- size those devices likely to be available to the employee at his or her assigned location. These guidelines are general and may or may not be suf- ficient for all circumstances or operations. The employer should not limit or reduce the company’s present program as a result of the publication of these guidelines.
5.2.1 Hoist (USCG)
5.2.1.1 An electrically or hydraulically operated hoist is available on USCG helicopters. It lowers a hoisting device (sling, harness, seat, or basket) from a hovering helicopter to lift personnel from the surface into the helicopter. 5.2.1.2 The pilot hovers the helicopter in a position that allows the hoist operator to lower the hoisting device and raise the person being rescued to the helicopter and then in- side. A rescuer aboard the helicopter may enter the water to assist incapacitated personnel. 5.2.1.3 A person being rescued may be required to put on or enter the hoisting device unassisted while the helicopter hovers overhead. Uninjured personnel in the water should assist any incapacitated personnel into the hoisting device. 5.2.1.4 It is always appropriate to contact the USCG; however, depending on the distance of the nearest available USCG helicopter from the rescue site, response time may be a limiting factor when considering this technique. Hoisting has been accomplished in winds exceeding 50 knots and seas exceeding 30 feet.
5.2.4 Miscellaneous
5.2.4.1 Always consider whether the survivor may be safer where he or she is before deciding to attempt a rescue with improvised equipment. 5.2.4.2 Various items found on the platform can be sus- pended from the helicopter to provide a means for lifting a person from the water. The platform personnel basket or other nets not incorporating flotation should be considered for use as a helicopter rescue device only as a last resort be- cause of the potential of personnel being entangled in the de- vice. 5.2.4.3 Any rescue in which a person is suspended be- neath the helicopter, and not hoisted into it, must necessarily be conducted at the lowest altitude, slowest speed, and short- est distance possible.
API RP T-7:1995 pdf download
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