SEFtec has been awarded a contract to upgrade the Polish Navy’s METS 5 HUET dunker and crane. The METS upgrade will include new exit panels and seats to allow training of aircrews on specific aircraft configurations, including the Blackhawk, as well as upgrading the existing crane control system and environmental effects.

This month a SEFtec commissioning team travelled to CFMA (Centro de Formação Marítima de Angola), a company of the Sonangol group. The team commissioned two new pieces of training equipment, a HUET and a TEMPSC.

EU Commissioner Designate, Michael McGrath, has visited SEFtec client EHS International as they opened their new €3 million facility.

SEFtec Fire Control Modules ensure that instructors maintain total control over their firegrounds, and the challenges posed. They allow training to be tuned to the abilities of those being trained, enabling the instructor to develop trainees’ skills whatever their prior experience.

Safety training has one objective; to teach delegates to respond in an appropriate manner to a life-threatening situation they have not encountered before. This requires exposing them to challenges that stretch their abilities. At all times, the well-being of delegates must take priority. The training environment must feel dangerous, but never be dangerous. All equipment must behave exactly as the instructors expect.

Members of the Irish Air Corps have successfully completed the SEFtec Shallow Water Egress Training (SWET) Instructor course. The course was delivered by SEFtec at the Defence Forces Training Pool at the Curragh. They have been instructed on and are competent to deliver Shallow Water Egress Training (SWET).

For the past 9 months SEFtec has been working with Kuwait Energy to develop a state-of-the-art 10,000m2 fire training ground near Basra, Iraq. The project has involved SEFtec consulting on the overall fireground layout, detailing the prop designs, and manufacturing the fire control systems and some of the fire props. The remainder of the props have been produced locally using SEFtec designs.

SEFtec has more HUETs in OPITO-approved centres than any other manufacturer. We offer a range of HUET systems that can meet any requirement.

(In 2018) Petans installed a second firefighting module with Irish supplier SEFtec, followed later in 2018 by a helicopter prop. In 2019, all of its previous kerosene burning modules were replaced by dual burn props.

The SEFtec minibus fire prop is a life-sized replica of a minibus with five gas-fueled fires integrated into it. The prop features hinged and sliding passenger doors as well as rear luggage compartment. The cabin interior includes a drivers seat complete with steering column, front passenger seat and four rows of rear cabin seating with over-head luggage racks.

“Over the years, HUET modules have changed in design, from clumsy-looking boxes that launched from the side of a pool to the more sophisticated units we see nowadays,” said Andie Marshall, business manager.

SEFtec developed the XO-Series HUET with the aim of creating the best HUET trainer on the market. The objectives were clear; it had to be the highest fidelity, most flexible, most controllable HUET ever built.

SEFtec will be attending the 2024 International Partnering Forum (IPF) in New Orleans this week (April 22-25). Contact us if you want to meet!

What a year we have had here at SEFtec. Below are just some of the highlights:

SEFtec has now commissioned it’s latest custom Cabin Crew Fire Trainer at Saudia Academy, the leading aviation training centre in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

A Helideck Fire Trainer is a specialist fire training prop which replicates various fire and rescue scenarios of a helicopter that experiences a heavy landing on an offshore helideck.

Beyond the standard fire props required for GWO and OPITO, our next most popular is a Flashover container. When fighting a fire in an enclosed space, firefighters must remain vigilant to the dangers of a flashover fire.

SEFtec produces a wide range of HUETs. One of our most popular is the SEFtec Configurable HUET, or as we call it the Config. Not only is the Config a little larger than our standard HUET, all the exit panels can be moved or swapped out.

When we were asked to design a boat capsize trainer for the Singapore Police Coast Guard’s elite Special Task Squadron we wanted to create as realistic a training scenario as possible. That meant, unlike traditional HUETs, this one couldn’t be dunked into the water from a height.