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Tower-Rescue

Training Package:
Perform Tower Rescue +
EWP Escape & Rescue

Course Overview:

Qualification: 

  • UETDRMP009 – Perform tower rescue
  • UETDRMP005 – Perform elevated work platform rescue
  • UETDRMP004 – Perform elevated work platform controlled descent escape
  • UEECD0007 – Apply work health and safety regulations, codes and practices in the workplace

Duration: 1 Day

Assessment Type: Theory and Practical

Prerequisite: HLTAID009 – Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Course Description:

Training is designed to be realistic and customised to suit your particular work situation (e.g. communications towers, energy transmission towers, or chair-lifts). This course is suitable for anyone who has the requirement to access towers or poles of any kind within their work.

This course covers the use of EWP controlled descent escape procedures, including rescuing a person from a raised EWP. It specifies the requirements and how they apply in the context of transmission, distribution or rail work functions.

Learning Outcome:

On completion of the course, participants will have gained the following skills and knowledge to:

  • AS 1891.4 (overview) (contextualised to tower environments)
  • WHS legislative requirements (overview)
  • Ladder fall-arrest systems
  • Work positioning systems
  • PPE selection, use, basic maintenance
  • Fall arrest systems
  • Using double hook lanyards
  • Installing solid and reliable anchorage
  • Practical rescue
  • Assessment activities (e.g. rescues) in tower context
  • Inspection and fitting of rescue equipment
  • Assessing and controlling hazards to rescuer, victim, and others
  • Isolation procedures
  • Maintaining Safe Approach Distances (SAD’s) appropriate to EWP rescue
  • EWP controlled descent rescue
  • Involvement of external emergency services as appropriate
  • Practical demonstration of rescuing a person
Outcome:

A nationally recognised Statement of Attainment for the units below;

  • UETDRMP009 – Perform tower rescue
  • UETDRMP005 – Perform elevated work platform rescue
  • UETDRMP004 – Perform elevated work platform controlled descent escape
  • UEECD0007 – Apply work health and safety regulations, codes and practices in the workplace

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