Rope Rescue / Confined Space Rescue Operator Combined Course
The Rope Rescue and Confined Space Rescue Operator combo course introduces the knowledge and skills required by personnel to operate safely and effectively during steep, vertical and confined space rescues and be an active part of a confined space rescue team.
This course will teach participants the skills and knowledge needed to conduct rescue operations in a variety of vertical confined space environments including IDLH environments.
This course meets and exceeds NFPA 2500 and 1006 Operations level for both Rope and Confined Space and is in conformance with CSA and provincial OHS Standards.
As per the NFPA, Operations-trained personnel can perform rescues if the following conditions are met:
- All hazards are controlled or isolated
- Rescuer can see patient from entrance
- Space can accommodate two rescuers, their equipment, and patient
Not sure if your situation will meet this critera? Give us a call to discuss.
- Duration
6 Days
- Format
Mix of classroom and practical skills practice within confined spaces, vertical and steep angle terrain.
- Prerequisites
- 18+ years of age
- In good physical condition
- Price
Reach out to us for an estimate.
Phone (250) 847-2427
E-mail: info@ravenrsm.com
- Recertification
Repeat the entire course at a 15% discount every three years
- Annual Training Maintenance
Click here to read more about the options available for annual guided practice
- Required Equipment
- Coveralls or durable clothing
- Steel-toed work boots
- Leather palmed gloves (rope glove or work glove)
- Helmet*
- Harness (Class III or separate chest and sit harness)*
*Rental included in course fee
- Takeaways & Documentation
- CMC’s Confined Space Entry and Rescue Field Guide
- Raven’s Rope Rescue Field Guide
- Personalized Rescue 3 International skill sheets signed by the instructor
- Registration of training record in Rescue 3 International’s database
- Certificate of completion
- Rescue 3 ID Card
Rope Rescue and Confined Space Rescue Operator combo course content
- Training standards
- Confined space regulations and standards
- Confined space definitions and hazards
- Incident size up
- ICS
- On-scene safety briefing and site control
- Communications and verbal commands
- Air monitoring and ventilation
- Personal and team equipment
- Equipment care and maintenance
- System safety checks
- Introduction to ropes, knots and technical gear
- Low angle rescue techniques
- Steep angle rescue techniques
- Anchor systems
- Placing rope protection
- Use of work restraint and fall arrest equipment
- Lead climbing with lanyards
- Ascending and descending
- Individual pick-offs
- Use of self contained breathing apparatus (SCBA)
- LOTO
- Interpretation and completion of confined space hazard assessments, entry permits and rescue plans
- Fixed high directional and tri-pods
- Connecting a casualty on a line using a telescopic pole
- Tensioning system and basic mechanical advantage
- Twin Tension raising and lowering systems
- Introduction to litter attending high angle
- Team based pick offs
- Patient care and packaging
- Litter management
- Medical considerations
- Tagline offsets
FAQ
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We only offer this as a private course
Our private training courses ensure personalized hands-on training through human-based scenarios
Private CoursesTraining Maintenance
If you have a group that would like to review their training together, the training maintenance program may be right for you.
Your group pays the instructor’s daily teaching fee and travel costs associated with bringing the instructor to your training location, along with an annual fee to be part of the maintenance program. This is generally a pretty reasonable approach for training departments because:
- it allows us to deliver the training in small chunks every year, rather than in one big chunk every three years
- it gives department members more annual hands-on time with their skills
- new members can integrate into maintenance programs by jumping on an open course from our public schedule
We track your members, and their status on course content completion within a three year cycle, which mirrors a traditional three year recertification cycle. It’s an excellent value for the cost, and allows you to review your skills in your own backyard.
The training maintenance program replaces the need to recertifiy your training on a traditional three year recertification cycle.
Sorry – there’s no individual audit program available for this course