Safety training
GWO Advanced Rescue Training Standard / V5 02052025
The aim of this lesson is to enable the participants to fit a harness onto the injured person and package them onto a rescue stretcher or a transfer board, to enable safe transportation of the injured person.
After having successfully completed this lesson, the participants can:
41) Take initiative for fitting helmet and safety glasses correctly on an unconscious injured person wearing a rescue head support device (Ability, intermediate level)
42) Act independently to fit a harness onto an unconscious injured person (Ability, intermediate level)
43) Act independently to package an unconscious injured person on a rescue stretcher and on a transfer board (Ability, intermediate level)
44) Take responsibility for creating an attachment point on a transfer board by attaching / choking an anchor sling through the handles of the foot and top of a transfer board with a connector attached (Ability, intermediate level)
Where possible the participants shall work in teams of two: one exercise per participant.
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It is recommended that a live ‘injured person’ is used for this exercise.
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If possible, medical advice according to site emergency response plan should be sought before securing an IP to a transfer board.
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An injured person must always be attached at an approved attachment point.
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ELEMENT 5.1 - PACKAGING THE INJURED PERSON
Learning objective:
45) The participants can perform a rescue by packaging an injured person on a rescue stretcher and transfer board in a vertical or horizontal configuration to enable safe transportation. This is be achieved by doing regular checks, using rescue equipment such as cervical collar, and avoiding head down configuration of the unconscious injured person (Skills, intermediate level)
Whenever possible, an injured person should be lowered in a horizontal configuration.
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The instructor shall:
Explain that a pre-use inspection of rescue equipment may be omitted only if it is permitted by the manufacturer’s user manual and the manufacturer’s criteria or the participants’ own organisation
Demonstrate how to perform a pre-use inspection of the transfer board(s) and rescue stretcher(s) required / chosen to instruct in this module, by following the principles and covering:
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