The mandatory minimum requirement for all seafarers to work on board commercial vessels. Covers essential safety skills.

• General Principles, Body Structure and Functions, Positioning of Casualty
• The Unconscious Casualty , Resuscitation, Bleeding, Management of Shock
• Burns and Scalds, and Accidents Caused by Electricity
• Fire prevention and fire fighting
• Properties of flammable materials, Types and sources of ignition, Fire prevention principles.
• Flammable materials commonly found on board, How to easily spread of fire onboard and principle.
• Safe practices, Need for constant vigilance, Patrol systems, Fire hazards
• Proficiency In Personal Survival Techniques- (BST- PST)
• Introduction, safety and survival, Principles of survival at sea
• Definitions, survival craft and appliances, SOLAS training manual
• Safety Symbols
• Personal Safety and Social Responsibilities- (BST- PSSR)
• Ship familiarization, Nature of shipboard hazards
• Groups the equipment provided on board to counter these hazards
• Use and demonstration of PPE, hazardous Operations Onboard