Refresher Course on Basic Training (RCBT)
Refresher Course on Basic Training (RCBT)
Scope
This Refresher Course on Basic Training aims to meet the requirement in paragraph 3 of Section A-VI/1 of the STCW Code which states that “seafarers qualified in accordance with paragraph 2 in basic training shall be required, every five years, to provide evidence of having maintained the required standard of competence to undertake the tasks, duties and responsibilities listed in column 1 of Table A-VI/1-1 and A-VI/1-2.”
This requires a total of sixteen (16) instructional hours to cover the topics enumerated in Part B - Course Outline.
Training Outcomes
Upon completion of this training course, the trainee shall fulfill the requirements in Section A-VI/1 paragraphs 3 and 4 of the STCW Code.
In view of the acceptance of on-board training and experience as a means for maintaining the required standards of competence, seafarers must be able to demonstrate the following competences upon successful completion of this course:
Personal Survival Techniques
- don and use an immersion suit;
- safely jump from a height into the water;
- swim while wearing a lifejacket;
- right an inverted liferaft while wearing a lifejacket;
- board a survival craft from water while wearing a lifejacket; and
- keep afloat without a lifejacket.
Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting
- use various types of portable fire extinguishers;
- extinguish smaller fires, e.g., electrical fires, oil fires, propane fires;
- extinguish extensive fires with water using jet and spray nozzles;
- extinguish fire with foam, powder or any other suitable chemical agent;
- enter and pass through, with lifeline but without breathing apparatus, a compartment into which high-expansion foam has been injected;
- fight fire in smoke-filled enclosed spaces wearing self-contained breathing apparatus;
- extinguish fire with water fog or any other suitable fire-fighting agent in an accommodation room or simulated engine-room with fire and heavy smoke; and
- extinguish oil fire with fog applicator and spray nozzles, dry chemical powder or foam applicators.
