COURSE SCOPE
This intensive hands-on course provides the skills and knowledge needed to prepare the confined space rescue technician to respond to confined space emergencies including identifying confined spaces and permit-required confined spaces, the hazards associated with permit-required confined spaces, target industries and hazards, state and federal regulations, components of a rescue operation, and the roles and responsibilities of the rescue team.

TOPICS

• Identifying Regulations and Standards
• Describing Lessons Learned
• Defining a Confined Space
• Defining a Permit-Required Confined Space
• Describing the Required Positions and Elements of an Entry Permit
• Describing Required Personal Protective Equipment
• Identifying Hazards
• Conducting Environmental Monitoring
• Controlling Hazards
• Mitigating Risks
• Recognizing Resource Needs
• Assessing an Incident
• Sizing Up an Incident
• Applying and Using Supplied-Air Respirators (SAR)
• Preparing to Enter a Confined Space
• Entering a Confined Space
• Terminating a Technical Rescue Operation
• Preplanning a Confined Space Incident
• Applying and Using SCBA as a Rescue Entrant
• Applying and Using Supplied-Air Respirators (SAR) as a Rescue Entrant
• Initiating a Search in the Areas Immediately Visible from the Entry Portal
• Preparing to Enter a Confined Space with a Hazardous Atmosphere
• Preparing to Enter a Horizontally Oriented Confined Space
• Preparing to Enter a Vertically Oriented Confined Space
• Assembling an Artificial High Directional (AHD) and Applicable Raising and Lowering Systems
• Initiating a Search in Areas Not Immediately Visible from the Entry Portal
• Applying an Atmosphere-Supplying Respirator (ASR) to a Victim
• Perform Full and Short Spinal Victim Immobilization
• Packaging of a Victim in a Litter from a Horizontally and Vertically Oriented Space
• Terminating a Technical Rescue Operation