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Access and Rescue training Courses Overview

Course aims

Bespoke training in access and rescue techniques to meet the clients specific requirements. This can be performed on site to add realistic value to the training or at our facility in Falkirk.

Who should attend?

Specific company member who have difficult access or specific rescue requirements which cannot be meet by the standard course.

Content

• Content can be tailored to suit whatever your requirements are, including;
• General requirements for rescue
• Emergency procedures
• Introduction to rescue equipment
• Equipment inspection and care
• Anchors, load calculations
• Rigging for rescue 
• Anchors, stakes and belays
• Snatch rescue / cut rescues
• Cableway / Tyrolean rescues
• Stretcher rigging and handling
• Pulley systems and hauling
• Team management
• Work At Heights Regulations, PPE Directive, LOLER and HASAW Act
• EN standards, rescue exemptions and liabilities
• Equipment and manpower logistics
• Pressured decision-making
• Rigging complex hauling, traversing and lowering systems
• Advanced stretcher transport
• Leading edge systems (tripods, A-frames)
• Failure recovery and improvisation