To enable delegates to deliver Technical Rope Rescue Operator and Supervisor courses.
Duration
5 days
Pre-course requirements
Delegates must be fit and be prepared to work in exposed environments.
Certification
Valid for one year
Course Timetables and content
DAY ONE
Objectives
1. Confirmation of organisation/ brigade rescue policy – this sets the course precedence and ensures conformity to existing systems
2. Instructor points for teaching basic knots
3. Anchor point loading
4. Strop rescue
Presentation
Opening talk on local area rescue problems, suspension trauma, brigade/ organisation policy, rescue planning, instructing technical rescue
Practical
- Hauling and lowering systems exercise
- Knots and rigging – examination of rigging systems/ rigging plates/ releasable anchors.
- Teaching knot tying
- Snatch rescue procedure
DAY TWO
Objectives
1. Stretcher set-up. Points for operator safety
2. Back-up systems
3. Cableway use
4. Planning and co-ordination
Practical
- Single point stretcher
- Single point stretcher rescue teaching exercise
- Twin line Cableways – use with single point stretcher
- Twin line Cableways – tensioning systems – Grigri/ rope dogs/ pulley and brake/ prussic
Day Three
Objectives
1. Dry set-up of systems
2. ‘Adding interest’ to the training session
3. Hauling systems practical
Practical
- Quadpod/ Tripod/ monopod usage – balance points and stabilisation
- Quadpod/ Tripod/ monopod usage – with stretcher systems. Teaching the basic use of this equipment.
- Twin-point stretcher raise. Instructor points-to-note
Day Four
Objectives
1. Confirmation of instructor points for simple rope access systems
2. Confined Spaces training – twin-line systems
3. Factors of safety and anchor point loading
Practical
- Safety (back-up) systems – operator controlled/ remote operated
- Basic rope access errors and student checks
- Confined spaces entry systems
- Twin-point stretcher rescue
DAY FIVE
Assessment scenarios
Potential instructors will be tasked with a variety of procedures, mainly relating to the Operator course. More experienced Supervisors may be tasked with providing rescue solutions for more complex procedures.
Typical scenarios will include:
1. Basic rope access skills
2. Snatch rescue
3. Single-point stretcher rescue
4. Cableway construction
5. Quadpod erection and safety factors
6. Hauling and lowering
De-brief, results and close
