Rope Rescue - Awareness & Low-to-Steep Operations

30 Hours / 3 Days

This course standardizes embankment rescue and provides the foundation skills for students who would like to move into the high angle operations and technician level courses. Students will learn the capabilities and limitations of their equipment in a classroom environment. Students then move to realistic hands-on scenarios, finishing with fully involved steep-slope rescue scenarios.

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Course Contents

NFPA Standards
Identification of resources
Rescue site size up, overview and safety
Managing hazards and resources

Ground support operations for helicopters
Medical triage
Ropes (knots, bends and hitches)
Anchoring and rigging systems

Patient packaging
Simple mechanical advantage systems
Low to steep angle embankment rescue scenarios

Course Schedule

Day 1

Morning:
- Theory Lecture
- Knots, Bends, and Hitches
- Equipment Introduction
- Classroom Hands-On
Afternoon:
- Equipment Review
- Knots Review
- Mechanical Advantage Systems
- Anchoring

Day 2

Morning:
- Theory Lecture
- Classroom Hands-On
- Knots Bends and Hitches
- Lowering Systems
Afternoon:
- Knots Review
- Patient Packaging
- M/A Systems
- Complete Systems on Low-Slope

Day 3

Morning:
- Steep Slope Scenario Evolutions
Afternoon:
- Evaluation & Testing

Main Teaching Points

(As per NFPA 1006 and 1670 JPR's)

Awareness Level

Recognize the need for support resources
Recognize incident hazards and initiate isolation procedures
Recognize needed resources for a rescue incident
Initiate a discipline-specific search
Perform ground support operations for helicopter activities
Initiate triage of victims
Assist a team in operation of the haul line of a rope mechanical advantage system raising operation

Operations Level

Perform size up a rescue incident
Inspect and maintain hazard-specific PPE
Inspect and maintain rescue equipment
Demonstrate knots, bends, and hitches, given ropes
Construct a single point anchor system
Construct a multiple-point anchor system
Conduct a system safety check
Place edge protection
Construct a belay system
Operate a belay system during a lowering or raising operation
Construct a fixed rope system
Construct a lowering system
Construct a simple rope mechanical advantage system
Direct a team in the operation of a of a simple rope mechanical advantage system
Negotiate an edge while attached to a rope rescue system
Access, assess, stabilize, package, and transfer victims
Direct a litter-lowering and litter-raising operation in a low-angle environment
Operate as a litter tender in a low-angle lowering or raising operation
Terminate a technical rescue operation

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