Overview
The Confined Space Rescue Technician (CSRT) course will teach you the concepts and techniques to undertake technical confined space rescues as part of a team. Individual and team skills are extensively addressed. Topics that are covered include hazard identification, gas detection and monitoring, legislation, international guidelines, loads and forces, building anchors, using pulley systems, use of tripod or quadpod for entry and evacuation, self-climbing and rappelling, lowering and hoisting of rescuer and victim, use of stretchers and various stretcher configurations in confined spaces, moving and evacuations from manholes, victim care, crossing horizontal spans, situation risk analysis, incident management and various scenarios.