30 hours / 3 days
This Confined Space Rescue course includes team-building working towards a systematic approach to Confined Space Rescue in IDLH environments. Participants will gain the skills and knowledge to conduct rope-based rescue operations in a variety of confined space environments.
Rope based rescue systems will be utilized emphasizing the selection, construction, and proper use of these systems in the confined space environment.
Students will gain practical experience in the use of communication systems, resource material, patient packaging devices, atmospheric monitoring equipment, supplied air systems, air sampling strategies, and strategies/tactics for successful emergency entry operations.
Participants will operate as an integral part of a team environment and will be directed and monitored by instructors acting as team leaders. Students are given written, individual proficiency and practical evaluations. This course meets or exceeds NFPA 1006 and 1670 and is in conformance with CSA and WorkSafeBC Standards.
Students will now be certified to "Confined Space Rescue - Operations/Technician"
Note: With the new alignment of the NFPA 1670, this course now exceeds the requirements of the Awareness, Operations and Technician levels.
Main Teaching Points
(As per NFPA 1006 and 1670 JPR's)
Awareness Level
- Recognize the need for confined space support resources
- Recognize incident hazards and initiate isolation procedures
- Recognize the need for technical rescue resources at an incident
- Initiate a search in areas immediately adjacent to the space
- Communicate with victim(s)
- Perform nonentry rescue
Operations Level
- Initiate a search inside a confined space in those areas immediately visible from the confined space entry portal>/li>
- Perform size-up of a confined space rescue incident
- Conduct monitoring of the environment
- Assess the incident
- Control hazards
- Apply and use self contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) as a rescue entrant
- Apply an atmosphere supplying respirator to a victim
- Perform full spinal immobilization of a victim inside a confined space
- Prepare for entry into horizontally oriented confined space
- Enter a horizontally oriented confined space for rescue
- Package the victim in a litter for removal from a horizontally oriented confined space
- Assemble a portable anchor system
- Prepare for entry into vertically oriented confined space
- Enter a vertically oriented confined space for rescue
- Package the victim in a litter for removal from a vertically oriented confined space
- Assess and rapidly remove a victim from a vertically oriented confined space
- Remove all entrants from a confined space
- Terminate a technical rescue operation
Technician Level
- Initiate a search inside a confined space in those areas not immediately visible from the confined space entry portal
- Preplan a confined space incident
- Apply and use supplied-air respirators (SAR's) as a rescue entrant
- Perform short spinal immobilization of a victim inside a confined space
- Prepare for entry into the confined space with a hazardous atmosphere
- Enter a confined space with atmospheric hazards