OPITO OIM Controlling Emergencies

This course is designed to assess Installation Managers or Facility Incident Commanders’ ability to manage major offshore emergencies.

A minimum of three emergency scenarios of increasing complexity will be used. Candidates are required to pass all three exercise scenarios. A fourth can be provided if candidate performance is borderline in any of the initial three assessments.
Each scenario will be based around a major incident, chosen from: 

• Well control incident
• Explosion and fire
• Accommodation fire
• Helicopter incident
• Pipeline incident
• Collision or wave damage causing structural collapse
• Loss of stability (mobile installations)

These Units of Competency are concerned principally with emergencies involving large numbers of people and which, by their very nature, are threats to life, the installation and/or the environment.