Heights Rescue

The AWCC Heights Rescue Program is a two-day course that provides the student participant with the tactile and decision making skills to perform a rescue at height.

Unfortunately fall incidents happen far to often and are a major risk factor associated with Working Safely at Heights. Across the Energy, Mining and Construction Industries the risks associated with falls from height have been know to cause serious injury or become fatal upon occasion.

This being the case, field workers that are required to Work Safely at Heights need to feel confident in their abilities when working in an elevated environment. Whether you are in the construction, energy or mining sector attending a Quality, Heights Rescue Program that is Facilitated by Highly Experienced Instructors is your first step to ensuring you have the knowledge and skills to plan a rescue, identify hazards and mitigate the associated risks that will quite literally save the life of a workmate on your site.

Performance Skills Learnt:

• Locate and applies relevant documentation, policies and procedures
• Demonstrate completion of working safely at heights that safely, effectively and efficiently meets all of the required outcomes on more than one (1) occasion including:
• Accessing, interpreting and applying technical and safety information for working at heights
• Assess hazards and risk associated with working at heights and implement control methods
• Select the wearing and caring for personal protective equipment
• Identify the required safety systems including fall protection and associated equipment
• Checking that fitting, adjusting and anchoring of fall protection and associated equipment is correct
• Performing the rescue safely at heights with multiple practical activities and scenarios

Upon completion of the program the candidate will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the following when working safely at heights:

• Communicate the names and functions of equipment, components and materials
• Comply with equipment manufacturer’s instructions and specifications
• Demonstrate the safe shifting and handling of tools and materials
• Adhere to statutory and regulatory authority requirements
• Clearly identify the nature of work undertaken at heights
• Comply with heights safety systems
• Fully understand the processes of providing for safe working practices
• Implement the use of safety equipment/systems and considerations to facilitate working safely at heights
• Demonstrate compliance with safe work methods

Why Use Awcc For My Heights Rescue Program Training?

Because the company was founded by Individuals that have worked in your industry, we have done what you do and we know what you need in the field to remain safe and compliant. We focus on best industry practice, gone are the days of climbing onto a converted container for heights training, those of you that have done that know what we mean. AWCC are committed to to quality training, nothing demonstrates this better than the investment AWCC have made into a Purpose Built Heights Facility to replicate your activities in the Energy, Mining and Construction industries, this is not a simulator, it’s a real heights training experience conducted in a controlled environment.