Confined Space and Rescue Training
1 in 1400 industrial accidents and 1 in 10 confined space accidents result in serious injury. 60% of all confined space deaths are to would-be rescuers. Approximately 80% of all confined space fatalities happened in spaces that were deemed safe to enter! Our confined space course provides a realistic approach to safety in and around confined space entries and accountability of the roles of the entrant, attendant, and supervisor.
Tower Safety provides 3 courses for Confined Space Entry and Rescue Training:
1. Confined Space – Entrant, Attendant, Supervisor (CSEAS).
General knowledge of confined spaces and the ability to identify permit-required Confined Spaces, and recognize hazards.
Objectives
The students will have a working knowledge of the following:
- OSHA 1910.146 Permit Required Confined Space Entry
- The New Rule, Emergency Management 1910.156
- Performing a Non-entry Rescue
1 day of training – call for pricing at 602-900-7668 or [email protected]
2. Workplace Emergency Response Team (WERT) Training for Industrial Confined Space Rescue (ICSR).
Specific knowledge for industrial confined space rescue including entry rescues in horizontal and vertical combination environments. Prerequisite: CSEAS or permission of Tower Safety.
Objectives
The students will have a working knowledge of the following:
- Industrial confined space rescue compliant with OSHA 1910.146(k)
- New OSHA Emergency Management Rule 1910.156 for Workplace Emergency Response Team (WERT)
- Managing the Emergency Site
- Protecting all rescue employees
- Basic Knot Craft
- Lockout/Tag Out
- Atmospheric Monitoring
- Managing IDLH Atmospheres
- Ventilation
- Patient Packaging
- Making horizontal and vertical entry rescues
2 days of training – call for pricing at 602-900-7668 or [email protected]
3. Confined Space Rescue Technician (CSRT)
This course is a more advanced treatment of complex confined spaces that might be present on rescue standby work in underground pipelines and construction, as well as extreme height confined spaces such as silos, distillation petroleum towers, and wind turbines. These environments often require advanced rope rigging skills not usually seen in the more basic industrial confined space entries that rely more on cable/winch/tripod operations. This training exceeds the requirements of NFPA 1006, 1670, 2500, and the requirements of the new OSHA rule Emergency Service Organization (ESO) – Emergency Management 1910.156. Prerequisite: WERT-Industrial Confined Space Training, or equivalent training and permission from Tower Safety
Objectives
The students will have a working knowledge of the following:
- Review and perform the objectives stated in the WERT-Industrial Confined Space Rescue course as stated above.
- Atmospheric Monitoring, and LEL Conversion Factors
- Managing respiratory protection in IDLH Atmospheres
- Ventilation
- Patient packaging, and patient movement within difficult confined space locations
- Describe the physical principles that underlie knots, anchors, and mechanical advantage.
- Construct a variety of anchors that can accept the expected loads and maintain safety ratios.
- Rig and operate tripods, bipods, and monopods.
- Set up and operate mainlines and perform loaded/unloaded changeovers, knot-passing, and operation of descent devices.
- Setup and operate both system/and individual belays.
- Perform rescues from vertical manhole entries combined with horizontal pipeline entries with multiple bends and directional changes.
- Perform top-entry vertical tank rescues.
- Perform extreme height confined space rescues.
- Rig and operate Sloping Highlines from extreme height confined space entry points
4 days of training – call for pricing at 602-900-7668 or [email protected]
Tower Safety Trainer, Pat Rhodes
Pat Rhodes has been in the technical rescue industry for over 48 years. As a technical lead instructor for the Phoenix Fire Dept., Pat Rhodes retired after 28 years as a veteran firefighter. Pat was a Rescue Specialist for FEMA Arizona Task Force 1 and a Technical Rescue Validation committee member for IFSTA (International Fire Service Training Association). Rhodes is a Master Rigger for physics, rope rescue, confined space rescue, and industrial steel rescue. He has consulted and instructed fire departments and technical rescue teams internationally and is the author of 6 published books. As an international instructor teaching confined space entry and industrial steel, he also spent much of his career as a practitioner and instructor in wilderness and mountain rescue. If you are in confined spaces, on rope, steel, or a wildland firefighter, Pat shares his years of real-world emergency response and expertise with every student. Learning from Pat Rhodes is an experience every technician should add to their toolbox!
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Tower Safety Confined Space Entry Rescue Course with Pat Rhodes
