Shipboard Safety Skillset

Shipboard safety skillsets for various roles undertaken on a vessel

🕖 Self paced online + 1 day in person 🕮 Practical and theory course


The ESS course (MARSS00008) and practical assessment is a requirement to work on many vessels to ensure you have the correct safety training when onboard.

This ESS is designed to be completed online in a self-paced learning environment. You can complete this course in as little as 3 days when studying full time or 1 week for part-time students. You will be required to complete 1 day of in-person assessing to for the following tasks: 

  • Sea survival activities that includes swimming for at least 50m
  • Boarding, using and rescuing others in a life raft
  • Fire safety activates that includes fighting live fires
  • Using a distress/handheld flare

An ESS course includes units of competencies that could be used for future pathway studies including general purpose hand, Coxswain 1 or 2.

We are flexible with students where possible and give the opportunity for students to plan ahead. It is important to chose the correct dates for your assessment. To avoid any late change fees, you are required to give us at least 2 weeks notice from your scheduled ESS if you would like to change course dates. 


ESS certification:

Provided you have completed all of your assessments successfully, you will receive your ESS statement of attainment.

This course includes the following units of competencies:

Unit CodeUnite NameNotes
MARF028Follow procedures to minimise and fight fires on board a vesselCore Unit
MARF029Meet work health and safety requirementsCore Unit
MARF030Survive at sea using survivial craftCore Unit
MARF060Apply basic survivial skills in the even of vessel abandonmentCore Unit

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Cost: $600
Course Durations (FT): 3 days
Course Durations (PT): 1 week
Practical: 1 Day in-person
Outcome: Shipboard Safety Skillset unit of competencies

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This ESS course is for anyone that requires the ESS unit of competencies to work on a vessel. If you require a payment plan, give our office a call. Flexible payment options are also available at checkout.

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