Machinery Rescue - Operations
10 Hours / 1 Day
Pre-Requisites: None
This 1-day NFPA-based machinery rescue course is designed for any first responder who may be involved in a machinery-based rescue. Students will gain the knowledge and skills to perform a multitude of common entrapment/impingement rescues and will be expected to pass both a written knowledge and practical evaluation.
Course Contents
- NFPA Standards
- Identification of resources
- Rescue site size up, overview and safety
- Managing hazards and resources
- Safety zones and control
- Fire protection
- Ropes (knots, bends and hitches)
- Lockout
- Equipment stabilization
- Small machinery access
- Disentanglement strategies
- Practical rescue scenarios
Main Teaching Points
(As per NFPA 1006 and 1670 JPR's)
Awareness Level
- Recognize the need for technical rescue resources at a machinery incident
- Establish scene safety zones
- Identify the needed support resources
- Size up an incident
Operations Level
- Plan for a machinery incident
- Establish scene safety zones
- Establish fire protection
- Stabilize a small or simple machine
- Isolate potentially harmful energy sources
- Determine small machinery access and egress points
- Create access or egress openings for a rescue from a small or simple machine
- Disentangle victim(s)
- Identify potential emergency events in buildings where mechanical equipment exists
- Remove a packaged victim to a designated safe area
- Terminate an incident
Student PPE for Practical Sessions
(Provided by Students)
- CSA-Approved Steel Toed Boots
- Long Pants and Long-Sleeve Shirt
- Eye Protection (can be provided)
- Work Gloves (can be provided)
