Competent Climber training and rescue trainig courses

Competent Climber and Rescue Training

Tower Safety Competent Climber and Rescue Certification

Lead, Learn, Live

The Tower Safety Competent Climber and Rescue course teaches the cell tower worker on various fall protection rescue equipment and how to properly set up tower rigging, cell tower patient rescue, mechanical advantages, and self rescue, along with proper emergency care and risks.

Competent Climber and Rescue Training:

Competent Climber Cell Tower Rigging- Rope Education

Ropes: types, strength ratings, inspections and documentation
Knots & Hitches: Bowline, Clove, Prusik, Family of “8’s”, Munter Hitch, Clove Hitch

Advanced Rescue Systems for Competent Climber and Rescuer Cell Tower Workers:

Industrial descent devices – use, standards and regulations, inspections, ratings
Pulleys: types, applications, use

Raising and Hauling Systems for Rescue & Rigging Angles

Mechanical advantage – explanation, application, formulas, and simple vs. compound systems
Anchors: ratings, requirements, use, load sharing, and vector forces
Cross hauls and lowering systems
Load equalization
Rigging Scenarios on various cell towers, monopole, self-supporting, rope rescue

Competent Climber Training and Rescue Techniques A Competent Climber and Rescuer will be trained in fall protection according to ANSI Z35,Z490,10.48 standards and OSHA 1926 regulations and best practices. Students will know how to perform tower-based rescues and rescue training as they apply to the daily JSA’s or Tailgate meetings and fall protection according to OSHA, TIA and ANSI guidelines.