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Tower Rescue Training, Videos, Safety and Maintenance
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DVD Videos | Tower Rescue For Emergency
Responders
DVD Videos | Tower Rescue for Tower
Workers
Tower Rescue: A Growing Need
Towers serve a number of
purposes, including carrying electrical transmission lines and supporting
communications networks. The number of towers erected is increasing by the
thousands each year (including remote wilderness areas).
Tower rescues
can include workers involved with building or maintaining a tower or who have
been injured or have suffered a sudden illness. These rescues are hazardous in
many ways.
Besides the obvious danger of working at height, towers
expose rescuers to hazards they may not normally encounter on the ground. The
hazards on an electrical transmission line tower involve not just the
transmission lines themselves, but also the minimum air distances (MAD) around
those lines. OSHA has published a chart that shows the MAD workers, tools and
equipment must be kept clear of different voltage lines (OSHA CPL
2-1.36).
Tower training must begin with the appropriate hazard
awareness training. Whether it is awareness training on the hazards of
electromagnetic energy/radio frequency (EME/RF) or on the hazards associated
with electrical transmission lines, no rescues or trainees should be permitted
on an active tower until they have had this training. The initial hands on
training should be conducted under the guidance of qualified instructors and
training company.
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Rescue Procedures with OSHA (Communication and Transmission) 1910 For
more information visit (www.osha.org)
If you are successful in
implementing fall protection, you will inherently create a new safety concern
for the climber. The whole concept of fall arrest dictates the necessity of
rescuing the worker who has fallen. Without fall arrest, there is rarely a need
to "rescue" a fallen worker just to "replace" him. With fall arrest equipment
properly used, a fallen climber can become a helpless victim. Instead of
falling 200 feet, as in the opening example, our climber will fall a maximum of
9« feet and remain suspended nearly 190 feet in the air. This raises a
number of questions. How long can the climber remain suspended before the
climber begins to suffer? How can you reach the climber and get him safely to
the ground? Who can rescue the climber? You must address these questions and
implement solutions to the problem.
by Winton Wilcox Jr.
Wilcox is president of Comtrain, communications training and consultants,
Monro
The employer shall establish procedures for prompt rescue
of employees in the event of an emergency, either by means of an employee
initiated rescue or by one implemented by a third party.
Employer
to Perform Rescue Procedures
An employer whose employees have been
designated to provide elevated (high angle) rescue and emergency services shall
take the following measures:
A. Ensure at least two trained and
designated rescue employees are on site when work (over six feet) is being
done.
B. Ensure that personal protective equipment (PPE) and high
angle rescue equipment needed to conduct elevated rescue are provided.
C. Training designated rescue employees so they are proficient in the use and
maintenance of PPE and high angle rescue equipment.
D. Train
designated rescue employees to perform assigned rescue duties to ensure that
they become competent to perform such duties… once every 12 months.
E. The training shall establish proficiency in the duties required by
this section.
Third Party to Perform Rescue Procedures
An employer who designates a third party rescue and emergency service to
provide elevated (high angle) rescue and emergency services shall take the
following measures:
A. Evaluate a prospective rescuer’s ability
to respond to a rescue summons in a timely manner.
B. Evaluate a
prospective rescuer’s service ability: proficiency and equipment.
C. Inform rescue team of hazards and locations of where the workers will be, as
well their contact information.
D. Provide the rescue team or service
with access to all towers or structures.
The effort to select the
correct equipment and to develop rescue technique is much more difficult than
not. Because of the wide array of answers to this problem, OSHA is flexible.
The objective of a timely and safe retrieval is to get the climber to safety.
Investigate equipment suppliers and challenge their answers in terms of your
specific needs. You may need to incorporate several rescue tools and techniques
in your program to ensure that you, your employees and your contractors are
protected from this hostile environment. Talk to other climbers, associations
and companies sharing the problem. Experiment, test and confirm that your
climbers can and will be rescued and returned to safety.
On DVD | Tower Rescue For Emergency
Responders
On DVD | Tower Rescue for Tower
Workers
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Services for Tower Awareness Seminar
The Tower Awareness Workshop (TAW)is a two day, in-depth orientation on lattice steel and monopole radio and power transmission tower construction, climbing techniques and hazards, for the emergency response agency. This is not a hands on rescue seminar, but is meant instead for the emergency response fire commander or battalion chief in charge of company response to tower-related emergencies.
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Services for Structural Tower Rescue
The Structural Tower Rescue Workshop is an in-depth, hands-on course, emphasizing structural rescue from the ground up.The techniques used in this program are closely aligned with mountain rescue where similar bottom up procedures are used on stranded climbers above the rescue team's arriving location. Most rope rescues (>95%) are top down in nature due to the fact that the rescue team is able to gain access to a position above the victim's location to perform the rescue.
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Services for Industrial Rescue Workshop
The Industrial Rescue Workshop is an in-depth, hands-on course, emphasizing structural rescue from difficult locations in an industrial setting and above ground tower environment. This year, the US Bureau of Reclamation is hosting the IRW after having completed RTR on-site rope rescue team and rope access team training in 2003/04.This USBR dam on the Columbia River in central Washington is the largest hydro facility in the US and offers an impressive venue for this program that should not be missed!
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DVD Videos | Tower Rescue for Emergency Responders
$195.00
DVDTWRER
Highline Productions LLC Presents
A Multi-Media DVD/CD ROM Video
Presentation
Hosted by Reed Thorne, Lead Instructor, Ropes That Rescue
Ltd.
Filmed and produced by 6 Time Emmy Award Winning, Fluid Images Inc.
NOTE: See 9 video previews highlighting rescue techniques in this DVD.
Click to view DVD Preview Trailer for
Tower Rescue Emergency Responders
TOWER RESCUE FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES is specifically
designed for fire fighters, emergency responders and rope rescue teams;
presenting a perspective of rescue training in a way never imagined before.
·Basic to advanced rescue techniques specifically for
structural locations.
·Emergency responder patient
assessment and stabilization.
·Techniques on how to
extricate uninjured (trespassers), ill, or slightly injured patients.
·3-Dimensional angles and perspectives only seen in
major motion pictures
Multi-Media Package
includes:
*Interactive Multi-Lesson DVD
*Complete Course Syllabus on CD
ROM
 
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DVD Videos | Tower Rescue for Tower Workers
$95.00
DVDTWRTW
Highline Productions LLC Presents
A Multi-Media DVD/CD ROM Video
Presentation
Hosted by Reed Thorne, Lead Instructor, Ropes That Rescue
Ltd.
Filmed and produced by 6 Time Emmy Award Winning, Fluid Images Inc.
Click to view DVD Preview
Trailer for
Tower Workers Rescue
TOWER RESCUE FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES is specifically
designed for fire fighters, emergency responders and rope rescue teams;
presenting a perspective of rescue training in a way never imagined before.
·Basic to advanced rescue techniques specifically for
structural locations.
·Emergency responder patient
assessment and stabilization.
·Techniques on how to
extricate uninjured (trespassers), ill, or slightly injured patients.
·3-Dimensional angles and perspectives only seen in
major motion pictures
Multi-Media Package
includes:
*Interactive Multi-Lesson DVD
*Complete Course Syllabus on CD
ROM
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