Have we become too risk-averse?

The terms “self-equalizing” and “load distributing” have often been used to describe anchor systems which are rigged in such a way that...

For many Rescue Technicians, the opportunity to train in a real live environment isn’t something that happens everyday. We try to make...

Ronin staff have provided rescue standby services on sites across the country.  As part of this service we are frequently asked to...

In 2014 Scott Young received The David Balfour Churchill Fellowship to “advance fire fighter safety by studying overseas developments in...

It was a sunny warm morning around in July of 2001. One of those mornings, that it is great to live on the West Coast. Not too warm,...

When most hear the term SAR (Search and Rescue), they think of a group in brightly coloured jackets surrounding a lost hiker or a basket...

A few years ago, a Lower Mainland, BC, municipality undertook an initiative to better develop its confined space rescue capability. The...

Many years ago I responded, as part of my fire department’s technical rescue team, to a confined space incident. The call was dispatched...

I was a Search and Rescue Technician in Greenwood, Nova Scotia, in 2012; a newly appointed Team Leader, meaning I was the ranking SAR...

On February 4, 2007, a structure fire in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was reported to 9-1-1. What was supposed to be an “ordinary” and “routine”...

Background A HIV and Hepatitis C positive arborist cut their brachial artery with a chainsaw 50’ up a tree that they had topped. As the...

World Wide HSE Consulting In 2015 Ronin was approached by an international computer software company to create a solution to their HSE...

When we arrived to assist a client with cleaning a grain silo – we were excited. The staff would be getting some Rope Access hours and no...