Working at Heights Rescue and Confined Space Rescue Training

This is a summary of our Heights Rescue & Confined Space Rescue Combination course

To undertake this Heights Rescue course, you should ideally have previously completed Working Safely at Heights, Breathing Apparatus, First Aid and CPR Training.  Alongside our deeply experienced and passionate trainers, our cutting edge technology helps create practical and challenging scenarios to help you develop your people rescue skills. With major simulators at our training centres, as well as our mobile training unit, we have both the technology and the experience to ensure that you gain the skills needed for this potentially critical activity.

Training covers key aspects including required regulatory, patient care knowledge, how to access work position, rescue equipment such as ropes, lanyards, harnesses, Gotcha kits. You will also learn techniques such as rappelling, abseiling, self rescue and pick-off within scenarios that are realistic to confidently rescues from vertical / high locations. The course topics are explained in more detail below cover:

• RIIERR205D Apply initial response First Aid
• PUAFIR210 Prevent injury
• PUASAR022 Participate in a rescue operation
• PUASAR025 Undertake confined space rescue
• RIIWHS204E Work safely at heights

Participate In A Rescue Operation

• Receive Task And Rescue Information – Communicating rescue information
  organisational policies and procedures, legislation and regulation including occupational health and safety /work health and safety legislation and environmental protection requirements, code of practice and australia standards
• Rescue Equipment Type of & Selection – Ropes and knots, synthetic slings, preparing to use rescue equipment, select personal protective equipment, common personal protective equipment, wearing and using ppe
• En Route to actual Rescue – Receipt of additional information, hazard related discussions
• Contribute To A Risk Assessment At The Scene including conducting scene reconnaissance, risk management and communications through to implementing control strategies.
• Health and Safety and Security Procedures – manual handling, recognising your capabilities and limitations, report need for additional support
• Perform Rescue And Conclude Operations – locate and identify casualties, gain access to incident and casualties, carry out rescue procedures, applying safety precautions, maintaining communications including with other rescue services
• Prepare And Extricate Casualties – Triage, extricating casualties, handling and treating casualties, hygiene precautions, monitor the incident scene and conclude rescue operations, maintaining equipment, critical incident stress, effects and management, debriefing and documentation requirements

Prevent Injury

• Identify Workplace Hazards And Risks through to communications and escalating Factors
• Address Hazards And Control Risks
• Select And Check Equipment, PPE through to decontamination
• Manage Personal Health And Welfare including fatigue
• Occupational Health And Fitness incl Food And Fluid Requirements
• Monitor Incident Situation, Reporting during and after, Debriefings

Work safely at heights

• Legislation and rules. Responsibility for yourself and work colleagues
• Risk Assessment and Safe Work methods
• Hazard Identification and control.
• Safety equipment, systems and access – including rigging and anchor systems, safety harnesses and fall arrest equipment
• Work area – evaluation and minimisation of fall hazards through to the solid construction of areas in work areas

Confined space rescue operations which includes

• Aspects of identifying and selecting suitable equipment as directed by supervisors,
• Briefing and communications of required tasks in line with organisational procedures – before and during rescue operations.
• Develop practical insights and methodologies to assess and manage a confined space rescue operation
• Evaluating the space for hazards and risks from different environments helps you gain more from the training and assessing and applying appropriate control and monitoring processes
• Theoretical and practical rescue-drill based approaches to help participants learn how to determine the location and condition of casualties in a confined space rescue operation.
• Understand how you should assess an incident scene in the confined space to determine the possible location of casualties
• Practice the access and removing casualties from confined spaces along with knowing appropriate first aid approaches in consultation with medical personnel and organisational procedures
• Complete rescue operations

Apply initial response First Aid

• The first aid element of the training is incorporated throughout the training but the focus of the learning covers the planning, preparation for initial response first aid, situation assessment, actual application of first aid through to record and report incident data capture and communications

The assessment for this course has been designed to assess you within the Australian Qualification Framework, relevant Training Packages for the units this course includes, Australian and Industry expectations, as well as Commonwealth and State Legislation.

If you successfully complete this course, you will receive a certificate which indicates the Statement of Attainments as recognised under the Australian Qualifications Framework. This is a nationally recognised certification. The Statement is issued by Harness Energy (RTO 40521).

The Heights Rescue and Confined Space Rescue course Combination  ‘Statement of attainment’ is for these Nationally Accredited Units of Competency:

• RIIERR205D – Apply initial response First Aid
• PUAFIR210 Prevent injury
• PUASAR022 Participate in a rescue operation
• PUASAR025 Undertake confined space rescue
• RIIWHS204E Work safely at heights

The Certificate may be needed as evidence for your employer for safety and compliance purposes.