Rescue Training
With our partnership with Rescue South Africa, we offer various accredited and certified rescue training services that cover all aspects of search and rescue operations. This can be provided on-site or at our world-class training facility in Johannesburg, ensuring rescue personnel can handle all rescue situations. Rescue SA offers the University of Johannesburg accredited Advanced Rescue Practitioner Training and several bespoke training courses, including Breathing Apparatus, Breathing Apparatus Escape Courses, Heavy Lifting and Basic Fire Fighting to various Fire Departments, Emergency Services personnel and corporate South Africa.
Course Structure and Accreditation:
All training programmes are delivered using the outcomes-based methodology, which ensures that you achieve competency and are awarded lifelong credits on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF).
Courses Available:
High Angle One
This course aims to provide you with the fundamental rope rescue knowledge, skills, and insight needed to access areas safely and efficiently using single-person rope work skills, lower equipment, and rig basic systems. This includes modules on high-angle rescue definitions and legislation, high angle rescue equipment, patient-based rescue approaches, anchors and more.
Target Audience: This course is designed for any persons who, in the course of their normal duties, would be required to operate in a high-angle rescue environment. This includes patient access and single-person rope rescues.
High Angle Two Rescue
This course will provide the necessary insight, theoretical knowledge and technical skills to be an independent rope rescue technician. This includes modules on specialised high-angle rescue equipment, pick-offs, patient management, packaging and stretcher rigging, advanced anchoring systems, principles of mechanical advantage and more.
Target Audience: This course is designed for anyone who, during their normal duties, would be required to operate at a technician level in a high-angle rescue environment.
Fire Search & Rescue
This course focuses on the activities surrounding the search for and rescue of victims and potential victims of a fire incident. The job of the fire rescue technician is not primarily to put out the fire. However, with this training, you would be a valuable source of assistance for the professional firefighter. This includes modules on fire behaviour and the fire tetrahedron, compartment fire behaviour, actions to take in an emergency, classes of fire, and more.
Target Audience: This course is designed for anyone who, during their normal duties, would be required to extricate and rescue a person involved in a fire incident.
Motor Vehicle Rescue
This course aims to provide you with the fundamental knowledge, skills and insight needed to conduct a vehicle rescue and subsequent extrication of an ill or injured patient. It includes modules on motor vehicle construction, new car technology, including active and passive safety systems, a patient-based rescue approach, the nine stages of rescue evolution, and more.
Target Audience: This course is designed for anyone who, during their normal duties, would be required to extricate and rescue a person involved in a motor vehicle accident.
Confined Space Rescue
This course aims to enable you to safely and effectively rescue a person from a confined space without becoming a victim yourself. It includes modules on confined space definitions and legislation, confined space hazard assessment and management, confined space documentation, a patient-based rescue approach, and more.
Target Audience: This course is designed for anyone who, during their normal duties, would be required to assess, enter, and rescue patients from a confined space.
Hazardous Materials Rescue
This course introduces you to the knowledge and skills needed to deal with a hazardous material incident. This includes modules on an introduction to hazmat rescue, properties of hazardous materials, personal protective equipment, recognition of hazardous materials and more.
Target Audience: This course is designed for anyone who, during their normal duties, would be required to rescue patients from hazardous material incidents.
Aquatic Rescue
This course aims to provide the learner with the skills to rescue a victim from a swift water environment independently or with a team. This includes modules on the anatomy of a river and its associated hazards, swift water rescue equipment, the sequential approach to swift water rescue and forming an action plan, rescue swimming, boat-based rescues and more.
Target Audience: This course is designed for anyone who might be required to rescue patients from swiftly flowing water during their normal duties.
Trench Rescue
This course aims to introduce you to the fundamental concepts of trench rescue while providing you with the knowledge, skills, and insight needed to manage a trench rescue incident effectively. It includes modules on the structure of a trench, causes of a collapse, trench rescue safety, trench rescue systems, trench stabilisation, and more.
Target Audience: This course is designed for anyone who, during their normal duties, would be required to access, enter and rescue patients from a trench.
Structural Collapse Rescue
After being assessed as competent, the candidate can operate as an integral part of a team that undertakes rescue operations in collapsed structures. This course includes modules on safety in the collapse environment, basic building construction types, the sequence of structural collapse rescue, building shoring systems and more.
Target Audience: This course is designed for anyone who, during their normal duties, would be required to assess, enter, and rescue patients from a collapsed structure.
Wilderness Search & Rescue
This course aims to provide you with the necessary knowledge, skills, and insight to coordinate and participate safely and effectively in a wilderness search and rescue operation. It includes modules on an introduction to wilderness search and rescue, navigation and camp craft, practical navigation, and more.
Target Audience: This course is designed for persons who, during their normal duties, would be required to safely and effectively coordinate and participate in a wilderness search and rescue operation.
Aviation Rescue
This course will provide you with the knowledge, skills and insight needed to function and work with aircraft in the rescue environment. It includes modules on an introduction to aviation rescue, fixed-wing aircraft, rotor-wing aircraft, land and water rescue, and more.
Target Audience: This course is designed for anyone who, during their normal duties, would be required to function and work with aircraft in the rescue environment.
Industrial & Agricultural Rescue
After being assessed as competent, candidates can safely administer agricultural or industrial rescues and operate as an integral part of a team undertaking rescue operations in these environments. Modules in this course include persons trapped in machinery, escalator incidents, lift and lift shaft incidents, incidents involving electrical hazards, and more.
Target Audience: This course is designed for any persons who, during their normal duties, would be required to perform rescue operations in an agricultural or industrial environment.
