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:
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
