Lightning – Vessel Personal Safety

Lightning – Vessel Personal Safety

Lightning has the potential to seriously injure or kill people on-board vessels. This course provides the knowledge to:

  • Understand the legal issues surrounding lightning
  • How lightning is propagated
  • How an electric shock is received
  • The stats and risk ratios associated with lightning and at risk locations and activities
  • The effects on people and what treatments might be needed including first aid
  • General control measures to reduce the risks
  • Issues specific to those on board vessels including how to manage the lightning risk and keep people onboard alive.
This situation could become tragic if storms develop

This course takes approximately 2 hours to complete and has a 30 day time limit, but this will be automatically extended if necessary.

Contact us if you need help with lightning control measures and/or specific training/inductions for your vessel.

Course Details

Online Cost: $50 (GST incl) via credit card.
Onsite Cost: By quotation
Training Time: 2 hours
Who should participate:
Anyone involved in boating including crew and ‘visitors’.
Other details:
ONLINE ENROLLMENT METHOD: Simply register for our online training centre by clicking the link below and once registered, click on the course and pay via a credit card using Paypal.