Rope Rescue Technician

 

This 5 day course covers the concepts and techniques required by teams undertaking technical rope rescues.

The course is designed to meet the requirements for the technician level NFPA 1670 Standard on Operations and Training for Technical Rescue Incidents and the NFPA 1006 Standard for Rescue Technician – Rope Rescue at Levels 1 &2.

The course satisfies criteria of BS 7985:2009 "Code of practice for the use of rope access methods for industrial purposes", BS 8454:2006 "Code of practice for the delivery of training and education for work at height and rescue" as well as Advisory Committee for Work at Height Training Awareness Syllabus.

A building block approach is used throughout the course so that students can progress from key concepts through to rigging and operating full systems.  One day of the course is allocated to highline rope systems.

 

Scope of the Course

  • Working at height regulations
  • Knots & technical gear
  • Anchors
  • Belays
  • Mechanical advantage systems
  • Ascending & Descending
  • System checks & commands
  • High angle raising and lowering systems
  • Pick off rescues
  • Casualty care and packaging
  • Low & high angle litter management
  • Highline rope systems
  • Passing knots

 

Course pre-requisites

Although there are no formal pre-requisites to attend the course, in order to gain the most from the input we recommend students should have some prior experience of working with ropes.

 

Day 1

Lectures
Rescuer safety
Regulations and standards
Pre-planning
Size-up &  incident command
Knots & technical gear

Practical Sessions
Anchors
Ascending & descending

Day 2

Lectures
System safety factors

Practical Sessions
Mechanical advantage systems
Belays system
Checks & commands
Basic high-angle raising and lowering systems

Day 3

Lectures
Casualty care and packaging
Improvised Harnesses

Practical Sessions
Pick-off rescues
Low-angle litter management
Ascending & descending low-angle
High-angle raise & lower with a litter
Use of high directional

Day 4

Practical Sessions
Passing knots whilst ascending & descending
Pick-off from ascent/descent (small team solution)
Passing knots though a raise & lower System
Rescue Scenarios

Day 5

Lectures
Introduction to Highline rope systems

Practical Sessions
Highline rope systems
Module summary & review

Prices

Contact us for bespoke quote and further information on this course.  

For discrete groups this course may be delivered on-site at your place of work or similar substitute working environment.