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RESCUE COURSES AND WORKSHOPS

These courses are aimed primarily at those who repond to emergences that involve difficulty in finding, accessing or removing injured patients.
However, outdoors professionals or avid recreational enthusiasts are also welcome to use these courses to broaden their skill-sets

HIGH ANGLE I
(A.K.A. ROPE RESCUE I)

High Angle I covers the "reach, stabilise and treat" aspects of rope rescue. On this course you learn about using ropes to get to your patient, protect team-mates who are on rope, secure people who are at risk of falling further, and get yourself back to (relatively) level ground. You learn about the equipment, how it works, what it does, how to look after it and inspect it and when to retire it.
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HIGH ANGLE II
(A.K.A. ROPE RESCUE II)

High Angle II is the part of rope rescue where we learn how to move the patient from wherever they are, to a place of safety or to someone who can provide better medical care and can get them to a hospital. On this course you learn to secure the patient in the stretcher, how to rescue a patient who is uninjured but stuck, how to pull a stretcher up to the top of a cliff (or building) and how to lower it to the bottom. How to move sideways across gaps, as well as some of the techniques associated with specific rescue problems.
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WILDERNESS
SEARCH AND RESCUE

As with many other environments, Search And Rescue (SAR) operations in the wilderness require specialist knowledge of the environment. Often the rescuers will be operating a considerable distance away from roads, and will need to be able to survive, travel, navigate and function in this environment for anything up to several days at a time. This course teaches you all of that, as well how to plan and carry out a search for a person who has not returned home when they were expected.
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AVIATION RESCUE

Contrary to what many people think, the helicopter is not just an anchor system that you park in the sky and that winches someone to safety. Helicopters carry a very serious set of risks that are potentially deadly to everyone in the vicinity - especially in the hands of the uneducated. Learn how to stay safe while using the helicopter as a rescue tool, and learn how to use the helicopter to rescue people. `
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INDUSTRIAL ROPE RESCUE

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.
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SMALL TEAM RESCUE

What do you do when circumstances do not allw you to conduct a rescue usng the big team you would like to have? The answer is to use some cunning techiques to get the job done with fewer people. This requires a more advanced knowledge or rescue skills and techniques than most rescue teams possess.
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CRM FOR RESCUE TEAMS

First adopted in Commercial Aviation, the concept of Crew Resource Management (CRM) is increasingly being adopted by other mission-critical teamwork environments, ranging from medical operating theatres, through offshore oil to nuclear power plants.
The goal of CRM is two-fold:
(1) catch out the errors before they take hold, and
(2) help teams recover from situations that could otherwise escalate into catastrophe.
Our CRM For Rescue course aims to do the same for rescue.
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SKILLS WORKSHOPS AND REFRESHER COURSES

In addition to running whole courses, we also run specific workshops and update (refresher courses).
We also provide a service as an external observer when in-house exercises are run, providing independent feedback

RESCUE WORKSHOPS

These workshops, typically only a day or two in duration, are run on demand and cover whatever topics your group feels needs attention. Most popular topics include:

  • Edge transition techniques

  • Use of Tripods, Bipods and Gin Poles

  • Bolted anchors in rescue

  • Equipment updates

 

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UPDATE & REFRESHER COURSES

The format of an update course depends on your organisation's needs. The most popular format is a combination of:

  • Technique training

  • Equipment updates

  • Discipline-specific case studies of accidents in rescue

  • In-context supervised rescue exercise

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