NIMASA STCW EFA case studies
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Elementary First Aid (EFA) is one of the four basic safety training competences required under the STCW Convention for seafarers serving on board ship. In Nigeria, the legal framework named on NIMASA's website is the Merchant Shipping (Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers) Regulations, 2025, which sits alongside the Merchant Shipping Act 2007 in the Agency's published list of legislation. The NIMASA STCW EFA case studies are 5 cases and about 3,948 words.
1Steam-line failure: 27% scald with nine hours to hospital
The 12-man crew of a 4,500 GT offshore supply vessel is on passage 90 nautical miles off Bonny when a steam-line flange fails in the engine room at 0310. An oiler, 38 years old and about 80 kg, takes the full blast across the front of his chest and abdomen and down his right arm before the isolation valve is shut.
820 words, about 4 min2Collapse at the bottom of a cargo tank: the second casualty problem
You are the designated first aider on a 12,000 dwt product tanker alongside a terminal. 3 port cargo tank has been discharged, washed and ventilated, and an entry permit was issued this morning after a reading of 20.8% oxygen taken at the top hatch.
770 words, about 4 min3Fall from a ladder: bilateral hand numbness on a rolling deck
During heavy weather on passage, a 24-year-old deck cadet loses his grip on a vertical ladder and falls about 2.5 m onto the steel deck. He is conscious and talking.
761 words, about 4 min4Confused and sweating in a hot galley: glucose 2.4 mmol/L
It is 1320 in the galley of a vessel alongside in Apapa and the ambient temperature is 34 degrees Celsius. The chief cook, 46, is a known type 1 diabetic on daily insulin.
798 words, about 4 min5Near-drowning: improving on deck, deteriorating 30 minutes later
At 0600, in moderate seas and a water temperature of 26 degrees Celsius, a 29-year-old rating falls overboard from the after mooring deck. He is recovered by the rescue boat after about four minutes in the water.
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