COURSE SCOPE
This course provides information on low-angle and high-angle rescue, familiarizing participants with operation of simple, complex, and compound rope rescue systems in the low-and-high-angle environment

TOPICS

• Recognizing the Need for Support Resources
• Recognizing Incident Hazards and Initiating Isolation Procedures
• Recognizing Needed Resources for a Rescue Incident
• Initiating a Discipline-Specific Search
• Performing Ground Support Operations for Helicopter Activities
• Initiating Triage of Victims
• Assisting a Team in Operation of the Haul Line
• Sizing Up a Rescue Incident
• Inspecting and Maintaining PPE
• Inspecting and Maintaining Rescue Equipment
• Demonstrating Knots, Bends, and Hitches
• Constructing Single Point and Multi Point Anchor Systems
• Conducting a Safety Check
• Placing Edge Protection
• Constructing and Operating a Belay System
• Constructing a Fixed Rope System
• Descending a Fixed Rope
• This course provides information on low-angle and high-angle rescue, familiarizing participants with operation of simple, complex, and compound rope rescue systems in the low-and-high-angle environment
• Constructing a Lowering System
• Operating and Directing a Lowering and Raising System
• Constructing a Simple Rope Mechanical Advantage System
• Operating and Directing a Team in Operating a Simple, Complex and Compound Rope Mechanical Advantage Systems
• Negotiating an Edge While Attached to a Rope Rescue System
• Accessing, Assessing, Stabilizing, Packaging, and Transferring Victims
• Operating and Directing a Litter-Lowering and Litter-Raising System in a Low-Angle Environment
• Operating as a Litter Tender
• Directing a Litter-Lowering or Litter- Raising Operation in a High-Angle Environment
• Selecting, Constructing, and Using Travel Restrictions
• Constructing and Operating Ladder Rescue Systems
• Terminating a Technical Rescue Operation