Safety training
GWO Advanced Rescue Training Standard / V5 02052025
Practise how to, unaided, correctly, and continuously perform the primary survey on an injured person who is wearing rescue head support
Practise how to fit a harness onto an unconscious injured person
Practise how to create an attachment point on a transfer board by attaching / choking an anchor sling through the handles at the foot and top of the transfer board with a connector attached
Practise how to package an unconscious injured person on a rescue stretcher and on a transfer board, adhering to the manufacturer's user manual and ensuring a tight fit of restraint straps
If permitted (in the transfer board and / or restrain strap manufacturer’s user manual ) a crossing strap configuration packaging the injured person is preferred.
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LOWERING/RAISING RESCUE SYSTEM
25 min.
The aim of this lesson is for participants to take responsibility in the lowering/raising of a rescue system for limited distance rescue purpose (rescue device, pulley system or similar), rigging setup options included.
After having successfully completed this lesson, the participants can:
46) Show interest in the pre-use inspection of a random pulley system and rescue device (Ability, basic level)
47) Act independently to correctly use lowering and raising pulley systems (Ability, intermediate level)
ELEMENT 6.1 - LOWERING/RAISING RESCUE SYSTEM
Learning objective:
48) The participants can apply rescue methods and techniques in performing descending and ascending rescue operations, from a WTG hub, spinner and inside a blade. This to be using a rescue stretcher and transfer board, manually operated lowering/raising rescue system for limited distance rescue (rescue device, pulley system or similar), and other rescue equipment relevant to the participants (Skills, intermediate level)
The instructor shall:
Explain that the pre-use inspection of rescue equipment may be omitted only if it is permitted by the manufacturer’s user manual and the manufacturer criteria, or the participants’ own organisation
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