Safety training
GWO Advanced Rescue Training Standard / V5 02052025
As opposed to product specific training, a generic approach to teaching safety equipment focuses on the similarities and differences in design, functionality and operation between different equipment products. The generic approach is achieved by teaching a variety of rescue equipment products within each rescue equipment category (e.g. rescue stretchers) enabling the participant to conduct pre-use inspection and to use other rescue equipment products compared to those taught during this Module (based on the manufacturer’s user manual) but without additional formal training. Consequently, a potential task is placed upon the participant on course completion, requiring them to familiarise themselves with other rescue equipment products in their own organisation e.g. prior to site or work, based on the manufacturer’s user manual A technique used during the rescue of a casualty from a ladder where the rescue line is diverted using the side D-ring located at the hip of the rescuer’s harness. This creates greater space between the casualty and the ladder
Generic principle
Hip overhang
The affected person requiring first aid treatment and rescue/evacuation
Injured Person
For clarity where the word ‘must’ is used in this standard it shall have the same meaning as ‘shall’
Must
Rescue device in standard mode setup, e.g. the rescue device rigged in the WTG
Passive Setup
(Rescue device in stationary mode setup)
Personal fall protection system
Assembly of components intended to protect the user against falls from height, including a body holding device and an attachment system, which can be connected to a reliable anchorage point
Detachable power driven unit for operating the ascending function of the rescue device
Power driver for rescue device
Personal Protective Equipment, includes personal fall protection equipment
PPE
A device or technique which will support the head of an injured person during a rescue operation (a cervical collar falls into this description)
Rescue head support
Personal fall protection system by which a person can rescue themselves or others, in such a way that a free fall is prevented
Rescue system
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