Guidance
Ensuring the wearing of immersion suits in helicopter evacuation or escape to sea
Ensuring the wearing of immersion suits in helicopter evacuation or escape to sea
- HSE
- Guidance
- Offshore Information Sheet 6/2008
- Evacuation, Escape and RescueHelicopter and AviationPersonal Protective Equipment
- Cold stress
- Helicopter operations
- Personal protective equipment
- Evacuation, escape and rescue
- Offshore installation
Summary
This information sheet examines immersion-suit availability during offshore helicopter evacuations. Keeping suits in cabins left some personnel without their usual protection after mustering. Duty holders should place suits near normal muster points wherever possible; otherwise, they should consider revising emergency procedures to allow retrieval before helicopter evacuation or escape to sea.
Classifications: Cold stress; hypothermia.
Classifications: Helicopter operations; offshore aviation; rotary-wing operations.
Classifications: Personal protective equipment; PPE; personal protection equipment.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
Offshore Information Sheet 6/2008. Themes: evacuation, escape and rescue, helicopter and aviation, personal protective equipment.