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Tower Rescue Training, Safety and Maintenance
Real-Time Tower Rescue Course Schedules
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| Tower Rescue For Emergency Responders
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| 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.
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Training | Ropes That Rescue Ltd. | Rope Access Courses, Classes, Workshops
ROPES THAT RESCUE (See Ropes That Rescue Course Schedules
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Both a comprehensive rope rigging school and a rope access consulting firm based in mountainous northern Arizona with programs around the US, Canada and Australia. The firm teaches roped techniques to emergency rescue teams in industry, mines, wilderness search & rescue, emergency medical and fire services. RTR is renowned for its teaching of practical rigging principles with understanding and simplicity.
RTR holds workshops specifically for linemen on electric power transmission line tower access & rescue. RTR also teaches firefighters and rescuers on power line rescue with newly released awareness-level seminars. They also teach hard rock high scaling, scaffolding rescue, structural bridge inspection and difficult roped access to industry.
These courses are in-depth, hands-on courses, emphasizing training the trainer . RTR seminars are designed to foster serious inquiry into the field of rope rescue and rigging with emphasis on testing and serious scrutiny of procedures in use around the country. Therefore, these seminars are those who have established protocols, and are seeking an active investigation and analysis of the multiple disciplines and techniques sure to be present. Students are encouraged to exchange ideas in a friendly and flexible setting. Many people involved with rescue work today know WHAT they believe, but not WHY they believe it. These courses are for those seeking a keen understanding behind a given methodology or procedure. Much of the classroom time is devoted to just such an inquiry, which we believe arms the student with answers to questions your team will certainly ask. In this context, the instructor will remain open to new ideas but will be conducting the class in a manner which will focus course direction. Specialized equipment, while interesting and sometimes timesaving, will be looked upon as peripheral, whereas basic skills knowledge will remain central to the course's objectives. RTR believes that it is these basic skills, which allow the rescuer to problem-solve and improvise in difficult situations which is key to the development of any rescue instructor. Basic skills are sometimes viewed negatively as too basic or rudimentary. It is perhaps the most advanced and thought provoking course of it's kind anywhere in the world-built upon basics.
Workshops available through Ropes That Rescue include:
• NFPA and OSHA Vertical Rescue Workshop
• Rigging Analysis Workshop
• Personal Skills Workshop
• Team Skills Workshop
• Advanced Skills Workshop
• Minimalist Mountain Workshop
• Tower Rescue Workshop
• Structural Rescue Workshop
• Industrial Rescue Workshop
• Arizona Vortex Workshop
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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 | 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.
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to view DVD Preview Trailer (3.0 MB)
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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