Pre Rigged Rescue Kit Operator - half day

This course is applicable to personnel who are required to participate in a rescue using, or assisting others to use, a prerigged rescue or recovery system / kit, or for those required to supervise, manage, or provide safety role support to those workers.

It is delivered at your work location, subject to risk assessment.

The course is delivered in a 4 hour timeframe, where focus is on the care, use & maintenance of the pre rigged kit & practice drills in the use of the kit.

This course addresses legislative requirements including reporting, rescue planning, risk management, human factors, equipment and rigging checks and the operation of a nominated range of first responder rescue/recovery/pre rigged rescue kits in your nominated rescue scenarios.

It includes information on casualty management including suspension trauma management.

Training is contextualised for rescue using your particular pre rigged rescue kit and is site / work environment specific. 

This is a competency-based industry training course which may provide PCBU’s and principal contractors with evidence of meeting parts of their general duty to ensure the workplace health and safety of themselves, workers, and other persons. 

This duty includes ensuring any person required to operate a pre rigged rescue kit or assist as first responder in a rescue using a pre rigged rescue kit is deemed competent through provision of sufficient information, instruction & training. 

The skills taught and assessed in this course are applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation & guidance, Australian/New Zealand standards and industry codes of practice.