INDUSTRIAL ROPE RESCUE

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The Industrial Rope Rescue course is a simplified, condensed version of High Angle I and High Angle II, aimed at Emergency Response Teams at industrial sites. These teams are seldom made up of full-time rescuers. To make things easier we have distilled the knowledge of HA-I and HA-II into a few simple, standardised techniques that are easy to remember and easy to implement.

This course focusus on teaching a few basic principles and then entrenching the use of a standardised system to solve the problems that are likely to be encountered on site.

Quite often we will use the time on site to derive solutions to specific problems that exist on that specific site.

You need to be fit enough to:

• Carry all your equipment

• Ascend back up whatever height you have abseiled.

Your fitness will be assessed during the course and if you are not fit enough  then you will not be permitted to complete the course.

The assessment is entirely practical in nature:

• There will be a series of skills stations where you must rig stretchers, construct anchor systems, rig raising and lowering systems. You may not make functional or safety errors during these practical assessments.

• There will be a team scenario-based assessment which will require the group to solve a realistic rescue problem (or problems) in a timeous and efficient manner.

Selection, capabilities, limitations, use, inspection, care and storage of:

• Harnesses

• Helmets

• Rope

• Webbing and anchor straps

• Connectors

• Descending devices

• Ascending equipment

• Stretchers

• Pulleys

• Anchor plates

• Edge rollers

• Types of knots, knot characteristics and behaviour

• Specific knots and their applications

• Anchoring physics

• Types of basic anchors

• Anchor point selection

• Anchor system construction

• Inspection of anchors

• Fall factors

• Impact force

• Belay techniques

• Communication

• Connection and pre-dispatch safety checks

• Edge transition techniques

• Locking off of a descent device

• Ascending configuration and technique

• Changing between abseil and ascent and vice-versa

• Passing knots in ropes

• Patient packaging using standard rescue equipment

• Horizontal orientation

• Vertical orientation

• Jockey mobility

• Mechanical advantage and pulley systems

• Changing from lower to raise and vice-versa

• Passing knots on raise and lower