GWO ART v 2.1

GWO ADVANCED RESCUE TRAINING STANDARD V02.1 – NACELLE, TOWER & BASEMENT RESCUE

2020-10-01_TS_ART_V02.1

Course participants shall:

Take part in the warm-up session of the major muscle groups and ankles, wrists and back Perform a pre-use inspection of their Personal Fall Protection Equipment Perform a ‘buddy check’ of another Course Participants personal fall protection equipment Note: During the remaining rescue exercises on this course the instructor shall observe and coach the course participants in manual handling planning, techniques, execution and improvement. It is important that the course participants understand how to apply manual handling planning and techniques to their daily work environment.

RESCUE FROM CRAWL SPACE

200 min. There are several locations on the turbine were occasionally work needs to take place with strongly reduced vertical space, such as in a transformer room, behind a generator or underneath a gearbox, main bearing or under the floor. The aim of this lesson is to enable the Course Participants to rescue an injured person from a crawl space to a location were first aid can be administered.

To successfully complete this lesson of the module, course participants must be able to:

1) Demonstrate how to apply the techniques to successfully rescue the injured person from the crawl space, in a controlled manner. (L3 – Skill) 2) Explain how to assess and determine rescue strategy (relevant rescue method, technique, certified equipment, and required personnel) in a crawl space scenario. (L2 – Knowledge) 3) Explain and demonstrate the identification and suitable selection of certified and structural anchor points, for relevant crawl space scenarios. (L3 – Skill) 4) Explain and demonstrate how to apply the concept of lifting angle, angle factor and deviation. (L3 – Skill) 5) Explain how to identify and control common risks of hazardous energies and common hazards of crawl space areas in a WTG, when performing rescue operations. (L2 – Knowledge) 6) Demonstrate how to apply rescue methods and techniques in performing a rescue operation, from a crawl space, covering efforts with and without rescue equipment to ensure the most optimum result. (L3 – Skill) 7) Demonstrate how to fit a harness or improvised harness by the use of a rescue sling around the injured person's chest, and other PPE (e.g. apply rescue head support, fit helmet, safety glasses etc.) onto an injured person, in a crawl space. (L3 – Skill)

Note: The use of a rescue sling as an improvised harness is only to be used in an enclosed space where it is not possible to fit a full body harness on an injured person.

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