Objective: To equip participants with the skills and knowledge to fulfill their responsibilities as competent rescue team members.
Duration: 24 hours [3 days]
Participants: Minimum 6/ maximum 12
Certification: Upon successful completion of testing, certificates of competency.

Day One: Confined Space Entry Training

• Give examples of confined spaces in the workplace.
• List hazards associated with confined space scope of work including; L.E.L, Toxicity, O2 deficiency & enrichment, welding, painting, special coatings and Physical hazards.
• Identify the necessity for preplanning confined space scope of work.
• Identify the necessity for reviewing lock-out / tag-out.
• Identify the necessity of understanding the true scope of work based on factual information and not historical practices.
• Explain the importance & necessity for competent permit issuing.
• Explain the importance of maintaining the integrity of permits.
• Give examples of situations whereby a permit would become void.
• Explain the necessity for competent testing.
• Give reasons for the need to wear full body harnesses.
• Demonstrate the ability to wear P.P.E.
• List the responsibilities & duties of permit issuers, entrants, attendants, and rescue team members.
• Demonstrate the ability to pre-plan rescue.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate in an effective manner.

Day Two & Three: C.R.S. Simulator

• Rescue equipment i.e. SCBA/ SABA’s, Lifting/ lowering devices, ECT.
• Patient packaging.
• Man down / non-packaged.
• Man down / pre-packaged.
• Horizontal rescue.
• Vertical rescues
• Multiple level rescues.
• Pre-planning system for rescue.

Anchor points: Bulletproof, backed up. Participants will review multiple work areas and review anchor points for worse case scenario.

Lowering Systems and belays: Utilizing the figure of 8, Munter hitch, and 3:1 rope
System, participants will be required to retain and demonstrate complete rigging, anchoring and descending in a low angle application. Upon successful completion participants will move to an elevated platform and repeat the exercise.

Raising Systems and Mechanical Advantages: Utilizing 3:1, 4:1 systems, participants will learn to switch a decent system to a raising [ascent] system.

Stretcher System for Industrial High Angle rescue; Elevated exercises whereby participants raise and lower team members in a Bradco Basket and/or Sked stretcher to medical attention.

Rescue Scenario Evolutions.

In order to evaluate skill levels participants will be provided with a multiple of rescue scenarios. Preparation has been completed in terms of participants having a fundamental understanding of equipment, design, and function. Skills have been shared and demonstrated in singular modules. How participants carry out these practice scenarios will be very close to how they will carry out real rescues. The remaining activities will demonstrate that every rescue is unique and with its own set of circumstances. However, the fundamentals they have learned will remain the same. The scenarios are designed to integrate each team member as a leader and provide opportunities to challenge the need for pre-planning, hazard recognition, safe work practices and related pro-active procedures.

• Protect the rescuer.
• Protect the victim.
• Prepare for the unexpected.

A combination of Confined Space rescue problems with varying and increasing levels of difficulty will be encountered. Each scenario will challenge participants in leadership, choice of resources and technical skills. Following each scenario participants will review and critique performance. As always the focus will be on safety. Following the exercises, students will return to complete one final test. Upon successful completion certificates of competency will be issued.

Auditing Services:

To evaluate the retention of training, field audits must be completed during confined space scope of work. This documentation is critical in demonstrating the competency of (your company) as a company. The audit supports and demonstrates that training was effective and competent. In the event a deviation is found, it will be noted [documented] and corrected with the participants immediately. Re-auditing will be carried out to support the correction. Again, every finding is documented. CRS may assist (your company) initially with on-going auditing carried out by the (your company) safety staff.