This expert-level course, delivered at your site or our modern training facility by one of our Fire Safe International trainers, develops the capabilities of your own designated confined space rescue personnel. The tailored training covers team roles, rescue equipment, casualty recovery and emergency scenarios.
If one of your employees becomes trapped, injured or overcome inside a confined space, your rescue team must be able to reach them without creating further casualties. The course is built around the space, access route, foreseeable atmosphere, recovery equipment, casualty route and responsibilities assigned within the team. In most cases, this might be equivalent to C&G 6150-5 (Emergency Rescue) or similar. This training can also be linked to the Confined Space Trades Association Verified Team Operator pathway; please contact us to discuss this further.
Rather than teaching each skill in isolation, the training follows the rescue from the first alarm through to casualty handover:
Exercises can reproduce vertical bores, difficult or restricted access routes, horizontal entries and sharp changes of direction, among other non-routine scenarios. Each participant works in the role assigned by your rescue plan, including rescue leader, entrant, equipment operator or breathing-apparatus wearer, so the course develops competence in the specific tasks they may be expected to perform.
Work as one coordinated team from the first alarm:
Each rescuer learns to understand their own role more deeply from the first alarm through to post-incident evaluation, and how their actions connect with atmosphere monitoring, communications, equipment operation and casualty care.
Recover casualties more efficiently through difficult access:
Repeated scenario-based practice helps your team evacuate a casualty under challenging conditions with less hesitation and better control.
Stay effective when the rescue does not go to plan:
through training, your team becomes better able to respond to communication losses, obstructions, equipment problems or a sudden change in the casualty’s condition without losing control of the wider rescue.
Manage breathing air throughout the recovery:
Rescuers learn to balance speed with their own air supply, withdrawal point and the time needed to bring the casualty out safely.
This specialist training course is for organisations that maintain an in-house rescue team for confined-space work, covering all aspects of confined space preparedness, safety, and operation. Our training can help you build a rescue team from the ground up or reassess an established team after changes to confined spaces, access routes, rescue equipment, personnel or emergency procedures.
If you want your rescue team to learn from instructors whose authority comes from genuine rescue and casualty-care experience, get in touch about our Confined Space Rescue Team Training solutions. Our instructors and rescue technicians include experienced firefighters and regularly practice confined-space casualty recovery operations. This depth of knowledge and capacity gives your rescuers a clear, shared standard for coordinating the complete rescue response.
To discuss confined space rescue team training with one of our specialists, please call 01743 761000, or click here to request a tailored course proposal.
If you are interested in a rescue team to hire for a specific project or longer-term need, please click here.
