200816 - Technical Rescuer (Rope Rescue Awareness Level, Operations Level, and Technician Level)

Course Description

Learning Outcomes

Awareness Level

• Help students recognize the need for rope rescue.
• Help students identify resources necessary to conduct rope rescue operations.
• Help students carry out the response system where rope rescue is required.
• Enable students to carry out site control and scene management.
• Enable students to recognize general hazards associated with rope rescue and understand procedures to mitigate these hazards.
• Enable students to identify and utilize personal protective equipment (PPE) used at rope rescue incidents.

Operations Level

• Help students size up existing and potential conditions at rope rescue incidents.
• Help students ensure safety during rope rescue operations.
• Help students determine the need for, and placement of, edge protection.
• Enable students to select, use, and maintain rope rescue equipment and systems.
• Enable students to tie all knots, bends, and hitches used by the organization.
• Enable students to select anchor points and equipment to construct and use single and multiple-point anchor systems.
• Help students select, construct, and use a belay system.
• Help students select and apply methods for negotiating edges or obstacles while protecting all nearby personnel from accidental falls.
• Enable students to ascend and descend a fixed line.
• Provide students with the knowledge to perform self-rescue.
• Enable students to select, construct, and use a lowering system in both low and high-angle environments.
• Enable students to secure a patient in a litter.
• Enable students to attach a litter to a rope system and manage its movement.

Technician Level

• Enable students to assess a patient using techniques that require climbing up or down natural or manmade structures, with significant fall hazard exposure.
• Enable students to use rope rescue systems to move a rescuer and patient horizontally above obstacles or obstructions.
• Enable students to perform high-angle rescues of individuals suspended from or stranded on structures or landscape features.
• Enable students to apply physics principles in constructing rope rescue systems, including safety factors, critical angles, and understanding force multipliers.
• Enable students to perform high-angle rope rescues with a litter, including the use of tenders to navigate obstacles, reposition the patient, or provide medical care during raising and lowering operations.

Credential Awarded