Offshore production and maintenance technicians
A Gulf platform is reached by boat or air, so anyone assigned to one is normally put through survival training first.
Course snapshot
CourseBasic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training with EBS (BOSIET with EBS)
OPITO code5700
Duration3 Days
Fee₹35,000
Validity4 Years
CourseBOSIET with EBS, OPITO 5700
Fee₹35,000 per person
Duration3 days
Certificate validity4 years
Flight from DubaiNonstop, about 4 hours
Why Dubai-based crew choose the standard BOSIET
Dubai's own offshore oil is modest and entirely shore-supplied. Dubai Petroleum lists five fields, Fateh, South-West Fateh, Falah, Rashid and Jalilah, about 60 miles out in the Gulf, served from its supply base at Jebel Ali. For a platform technician, boat hand or logistics coordinator in that chain, the first step is asking your employer which induction paperwork the client expects.
The wider reason is mobility. Dubai is a base for ship repair, marine services, free-zone engineering firms and crewing offices, so people employed here are moved between clients. Dubai Maritime City, which DP World says held a record 52 vessels in its dry berths on 28 July 2026, repairs offshore vessels up to 150 metres. The fitters, surveyors and deck crew on those vessels can be reassigned to another sea within a year.
BOSIET with EBS also follows people out of the Gulf. Clients in colder waters such as the North Sea commonly name the standard version, because the tropical course is written for warm-water operations. If your next posting might be one of those, booking the standard course now can save a second three-day course later.
Dubai Petroleum offshore fields
Five fields roughly 60 miles offshore, with Jebel Ali named by the company as the supply base.
Dubai Maritime City dry berths
Offshore vessels up to 150 metres drove much of the recent growth in dry-berth use, according to DP World.
Free-zone contractors and crewing offices
Staff employed in Dubai are often deployed to clients elsewhere, so the client's course code matters more than your home address.
Dubai job roles that usually need BOSIET with EBS
Supply and crew vessel deck crew and engineers
Vessels serving offshore fields work alongside installations, and many clients ask for current sea survival and fire-fighting certificates from the whole crew.
Yard fitters, welders and riggers
Dubai yard staff are sometimes sent offshore for short shutdown or hook-up jobs, and three days is cheaper than losing a place on the crew list.
Newcomers to offshore work
No offshore experience is needed, only medical fitness for the practical exercises, so shore workers can use it to move offshore.
BOSIET with EBS or T-BOSIET for a Dubai job
Both courses run three days at ₹35,000, so price does not decide it. The tropical T-BOSIET (OPITO 5501) suits warm-water regions when your contract names it. The standard BOSIET with EBS (5700) is what many international operators and helicopter providers ask for, particularly outside the tropics. Dubai workers who rotate between clients often take the standard course so one certificate covers more cases. The client contract has the final word, so ask for the code in writing.
Tropical Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training (T-BOSIET) →
Choose it when the client names OPITO 5501 and your work stays in warm-water regions.
Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training with EBS (Digital Delivery) →
Ask about it if your off-rotation window is short; the theory is done online and our team will describe the practical days.
Further Offshore Emergency Training with EBS (FOET with EBS) →
The refresher route for someone whose standard BOSIET is close to the end of its 4 years.
Basic H2S Training →
Add Basic H2S (OPITO 9014, half a day, ₹12,500, valid 2 years) if the assignment involves gas that may contain hydrogen sulphide.
The five BOSIET modules, read against Dubai offshore work
OPITO-approved instructors assess you continuously against the OPITO standard, and you must show competence in every exercise.
- 01
Safety Induction
Risk management, safety laws, hazards and incident reporting. It prepares you for the vocabulary of a client's own installation induction.
- 02
Firefighting and Self-Rescue
You use handheld extinguishers, then get out of a smoke-filled room on a fire ground. Engine rooms and process modules are hot, enclosed places.
- 03
Sea Survival
Lifejackets, boarding survival craft and individual and group water survival techniques, whatever the water temperature at your own field.
- 04
HUET Safety and Escape with EBS
Helicopter ditching drills, controlled descent and the Emergency Breathing System. This is the module to ask your employer about if your rotation uses air transfer.
- 05
Hands-on Pool Drills
Simulated emergencies in aviation suits, lifejackets and EBS in an indoor pool with a Modular Egress Training Simulator. Spectacle wearers should bring a retaining strap.
For Dubai manning agencies, contractors and HSE teams
Buyers here are marine and offshore service contractors, free-zone engineering firms, vessel operators and crewing agencies. A Dubai coordinator often books for people whose end client is in another emirate or country, so the certificate version should follow the client's HSE plan, not the office location.
Standards that shape training in United Arab Emirates
Client and operator HSE requirementsOperators set their own contractor rules, including which survival course and certificate version they accept. Ask for the wording in the tender or mobilisation checklist.
OPITO standard 5700BOSIET with EBS is the standard version and T-BOSIET (5501) the tropical one; a client's compliance team usually checks the code.
UAE occupational safety rules for employersMinisterial Resolution 44 of 2022 under Federal Decree-Law 33 of 2021 sets employer duties, including a qualified safety officer in industrial establishments and in construction employing 100 workers or more.
What employers commonly ask for
| Course | Requirement note |
|---|---|
| Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training with EBS (BOSIET with EBS) | Often named by international operators and helicopter providers, and a sensible default when the next client is unknown. The contract decides. |
| Tropical Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training (T-BOSIET) | Suited to warm-water work where the client has confirmed 5501. Confirm before moving a whole crew onto it. |
| Further Offshore Emergency Training with EBS (FOET with EBS) | Refresher for staff holding a standard BOSIET; track expiry dates so renewals avoid mobilisation months. |
Planning a group booking
- Open a company account at portal.imostacademy.in/register to get team logins, contract (rate card) pricing, group bookings, invoices and statements.
- Send names exactly as printed on passports along with the OPITO code the client asked for.
- Split a large crew over two or three batches so a vessel or yard is never short of its whole workforce; ask for current batch dates.
- Invoices are in INR, so agree the currency and transfer route first. We accept purchase orders and can offer credit terms after a credit assessment.
Operators and clients set their own requirements; confirm with your contract or HSE department.
Dubai to the Njarakkal campus in a day
Flights leave Dubai (DXB) for Cochin International Airport (COK) nonstop, and Sharjah (SHJ) is the alternative if you live in the northern emirates. Our campus lies on Vypin island, a road transfer of about 40 km from COK.
Dubai (DXB) to Kochi (COK)
Several airlines are listed on this nonstop route and the schedule changes by season. India runs 1 hour 30 minutes ahead of the UAE, so allow for that when planning your landing.
From Cochin airport to Vypin
From the airport, a prepaid taxi or app cab takes the Goshree bridges onto Vypin island. Allow extra time at rush hour.
Plan your visit from Dubai
Planning around home leave
Treat the trip as five or six days: one to arrive, three for the course, one or two to return. If your family is in Kerala, putting the course at the start or end of a visit avoids an extra round trip.
Visa and entry
An Indian passport needs no visa for this trip. A foreign passport usually calls for an Indian e-Visa or regular visa, and the category depends on nationality, so settle that before buying a flight.
Costs and payment
We price in Indian rupees, per person. Most Dubai residents pay by transfer from a UAE bank account; check the amount, payment reference and your bank's charges first.
Fitting a three-day BOSIET into a Dubai rotation
- 1
Get the code in writing
Ask HR or the client's compliance team for the exact certificate name and OPITO number, and save the email.
- 2
Count the real days
Three days of training plus a travel day each way and a spare for a delayed flight makes five or six days away.
- 3
Fix dates, then book the flight
Batches run regularly. Share your off-rotation window with our team and book flights only after a batch is confirmed.
- 4
Diarise renewal
Send the certificate to your employer, note the expiry four years ahead and book the refresher at least three months early.