Emergency Drills
The company should conduct emergency drills as required by the US Coast Guard (USCG) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE).
Carefully plan emergency drills.
These drills include but are not limited to:
- collision
- environmental spills
- fire and abandon
- homeland security
- helicopter crash
- man overboard
When conducting on-board emergency drills:
- All emergency drills should be documented, maintained, and made readily available to the USCG upon request. Records may be destroyed after one year.
- Conduct a fire and abandon platform drill at least once each month for manned facilities.
- All persons on board should participate in the drill.
- In order to distinguish drills from actual emergencies, an announcement should be made over the PA system stating, "This is a drill, this is a drill."
- The location of a simulated or actual fire should be announced over the PA system.
- Pre-plan drills and vary the nature of the drill to cover a variety of emergency types.
- If possible, use equipment to simulate a true emergency, including starting each fire pump.
- On larger facilities or MODU's, as part of the drill, simulate Activation of Emergency Shut-off Devices (ESDs) as part of the drill.
Here's a short video demonstrating an emergency drill: ERT Offshore Drill
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