Training Package:
Work Safely at Heights +
Perform Tower Rescue +
EWP Escape & Rescue
Course Overview:
Qualification:
- RIIWHS204E Work safely at heights
- UETDRMP020 Perform tower rescue
- UETDRMP015 Perform elevated work platform controlled descent escape
- UETDRMP016 Perform elevated work platform rescue
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 is required to access towers or poles of any kind within their work.
This course specifies the outcome required to work safely at height. This course includes accessing, interpreting and applying technical and safety information for working at heights, assessing hazards and risks associated with working at heights and implementing control methods, selecting, wearing and caring for personal protective equipment, identifying required safety systems including fall protection and associated equipment, checking the correct fitting, adjusting and anchoring of fall protection and associated equipment and performing work safely at heights.
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:
- Identify work requirements
- Identify work procedures and instructions
- Access and install equipment
- Perform work at heights
- Clean up the work area
- 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;
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Elite Vertical Access & Rescue Package: Heights, Tower & EWP Rescue
The Complete Certification for High-Risk, Multi-Access Work
For riggers, technicians, and supervisors whose work environment involves both climbing fixed towers and operating Elevated Work Platforms (EWPs), this triple-certified package delivers the highest level of competence and compliance.
This elite bundle covers Work Safely at Heights (prevention), Perform Tower Rescue (fixed structure rescue), and EWP Escape & Rescue (mobile plant rescue). It ensures you meet the mandatory safety standards and possess the full suite of emergency response skills required for any job at height across the telecommunications, energy, and construction sectors.
Why Choose This Triple Rescue Package?
Maximize your skill set and marketability with the most complete vertical safety training available:
- Unmatched Compliance: Achieve the three most critical safety units for multi-access work at height, ensuring full compliance on virtually any high-risk site nationwide.
- Dual Rescue Capability: Train for rescue scenarios on both fixed (tower) and variable (EWP) structures, significantly broadening your operational scope and value.
- Streamlined Training: Complete the foundational prerequisite and both specialized rescue units in one continuous, cohesive training program, saving substantial time and cost.
- Career Acceleration: This certification combination demonstrates leadership and advanced safety preparedness, making you an ideal candidate for supervisory and advanced technical roles.
What You Will Master
This package ensures you are competent in prevention, entry, and emergency retrieval from all elevated work environments:
| Training Unit | UoC Code (Example) | Key Safety Skills Covered |
|---|---|---|
| Work Safely at Heights | RIIWHS204E | Selecting and inspecting fall arrest systems; correct harness fitting; anchor selection; fall distance calculation; and fall restraint techniques. |
| Perform Tower Rescue | UETTDRRF10B | Assessing tower emergencies; setting up complex rescue ropes, lowering, and hauling systems; safely rigging and lowering an incapacitated person from a fixed vertical structure. |
| EWP Escape & Rescue | RIIWHS204E | Implementing emergency controlled descent procedures from an EWP; use of ground and auxiliary controls for platform recovery; rescue from an EWP basket (operator and observer). |
Who Should Enrol in This Package?
This elite certification is mandatory or highly beneficial for:
- Telecommunications Riggers & Tower Climbers: Essential for meeting client and industry safety protocols.
- Multi-Trade Technicians: Those who access heights using both fixed ladders/structures and boom-type EWPs.
- Wind Turbine & Energy Sector Workers: Combining general heights safety with advanced rescue from elevated structures.
- High-Risk Supervisors: Personnel responsible for managing safety and rescue procedures for entire teams working at height.
Prerequisites and Safety Requirements
- You must be 18 years of age or older to attend.
- A high level of **physical fitness and endurance** is required due to the strenuous nature of the simulated rescue and climbing tasks involved in all three units.
- You must be able to meet the language, literacy, and numeracy (LLN) requirements for complex safety and rescue planning.
ACHIEVE THE GOLD STANDARD IN VERTICAL SAFETY. ENROL NOW!
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