Working at Height & Rescue Training

This course is highly practical in nature, delegates will experience the whole process of a safe and systematic approach to working at height operations. The course includes the skills required to rescue / recover a casualty hanging in suspension. This is an essential, if often overlooked, function as an unconscious casualty may have as little as 10 minutes to survive in this position.

Content:

• The UK work at height legislation
• Principals of the hierarchy of risk
• Fall avoidance
• Work at height techniques
• Selection and safe use of harnesses
• Selection and safe use of lanyards and energy absorbers
• Karabiners and connectors
• Anchor point selection
• Vertical lowering of casualty
• Vertical raising of casualty
• Use of stretchers
• Suspension trauma
• Question and answer sessions
• Practical and written assessments

Who Will Benefit: 

The course is aimed at those whose work requires them to work at height as part of a work team. This would include the majority of oilfield personnel who are required to occasionally work at height, for example, painters, scaffolders, mechanical and electrical technicians, steel erectors, riggers, steeplejacks, electricity and telecommunications workers. This course will also be of interest to the emergency services.