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Industrial Rope Rescue Technician |
Scope/Overview:
Accessing, stabilizing and transporting patients in high and low angle rescue operations require considerable expertise, equipment, practice and teamwork. FST's Industrial Rope Rescue Technician program teaches the skills necessary to perform technical rescue operations most likely required for an industrial plant setting. These may include such structures as: pipe racks, building ledges and roofs, catwalks, tops of tanks and vessels, cranes, and towers. The Technician course builds upon the fundamentals taught in Industrial Rope Rescue Basics. Major topics include: rappelling, self-rescue, ledge pick-off, changing and extending lines, inverting/lock-off, patient packaging, mechanical advantage, lowering and raising systems, and reversing a system.
Course Length:
16-24 hours, depending on site-specific training objectives.
Prerequisite(s):
Industrial Rope Rescue Basics
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