Safety Emergency Response Training and Certification
The BNL Safety Emergency Response Training and Certification Facility is located in Lekki, Lagos
All facilities and equipment have been built to international standards, and includes a 3m deep swimming pool with fixed HUET system and overhead gantry crane, Heliwinch simulator and 2.5/1.0m stepoff platform options. The Training Centre also includes a 2level smokehouse and firefighting training ground, plus TEMPSC Lifeboat, muster platform and davit crane for lifeboat training.
The training equipment is complemented by trainee change rooms and office complex, with classroom and course catering.
The Ingstrom Escape Chute is fully fire resistant, and can evacuate up to 25 people per minute from heights of up to 35 floors. It can be deployed from the roof top, via windows, or can be permanently installed inside the building. Various other solutions are available from Blisston for building fire evacuation
The SMRT V100 is a water-activated Maritime Survivor Locating Device (MSLD) that transmits accurate and regular GPS coordinates of a man overboard directly to rescuers via VHF marine radio. This palm sized radio distress beacon can be integrated with a lifejacket or Personal Flotation Device (PFD), clipped to webbing or harness, or carried in a pocket and secured with a lanyard.
When its water sensors detect the wearer has gone overboard, the SMRT V100 automatically transmits a “Mayday, man overboard” distress alert using VHF DSC (Digital Selective Calling) plus quickly acquires a GPS lock, then transmits its GPS coordinates to all vessels in the vicinity, including the parent vessel, and to any onshore VHF receivers in range.
The distress alert is also broadcast on the VHF marine radio emergency channel 16 in a synthesized voice to maximize the number of people who can receive the alert and respond to the emergency. Alerting range is VHF line-of-sight: 2 to 10NM surface-to-surface and up to 40NM surface-to-air. The radio distress messages are repeated at regular intervals for up to 24 hours to provide rescuers with the real-time location of the man overboard. The device also has a strobe light to assist with visual homing.
The only equipment needed to receive the distress alert is a VHF radio. All marine search and rescue authorities, SOLAS-compliant commercial vessels and a growing number of leisure craft are equipped with DSC-compatible VHF radios. This makes using the SMRT V100 for man overboard detection and in-water tracking one of the most effective, universally acceptable lifesaving devices available today.
The choice of lifejacket depends on the location and conditions in which you operate, but rest assured that all the featured models comply with the necessary regulations to suit your needs. Consolidate your safety equipment and benefit from:
- Buoyancy and emergency alerting capability in one - your best chance of survival and recovery in a man overboard event
- Automatic distress alert on submersion in water and/or auto-inflation of lifejacket - MSLD is armed and locked in the READY position at all times
- Guaranteed optimal antenna position - achieves maximum transmission range
- Fully enclosed beacon within lifejacket valise or pocket - MSLD is protected and reduces snagging hazard
- No change to existing safety procedures - carry the MSLD every time you wear your lifejacket.
BLISSTON Nigeria Limited is also able to provide various types and levels of safety, firefighting and emergency response training for various categories of company staff including emergency responders, contractors, spouses of personnel and office based staff in firefighting training for emergency responders, office based personnel, as well as occupational hygiene, and other HSE advisory related services.
Given the size and criticality of most business operations, the level of reliability and therefore assurance required by customers of operational integrity, a primary safety emergency response mechanism has become necessary as a total reliance on secondary response measures has grave implications in most instance that your organization offers your customers and therefore the business community, we understand that.