This industry-required course includes practical training in self-rescue and descending from a pole, as well as rescue and descent of a colleague.
This industry-required course includes practical training in self-rescue and descending from a pole, as well as rescue and descent of a colleague.
Course content:
- Updated theoretical training covering laws and regulations, changes in equipment, and the energy involved in falls and rescue operations.
- Review of procedures and planning of work at height on poles, including equipment maintenance and inspection.
- Practical training in self-rescue and descent from a pole.
- Practical training in releasing and lowering a colleague while positioned on the pole.
- Practical training in releasing and lowering a colleague together with another rescuer.
Practical training using the following equipment:
- pole climbing shoes
- Harnesses – EN 813
- Work positioning lanyards – EN 358
- Pole slings – EN 795, EN 354
- Fall arrest lanyards – EN 355
- Manual descent devices – EN 341