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ROPE RESCUE TRAINING

NFPA AND INDUSTRY ROPE RESCUE COURSES

Ronin Safety & Rescue conducts our primary Rescue Programs to the relevant National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) standards. Industrial and Custom courses and Workshops use NFPA standards at their base, however may not address all of the relevant Job Performance Requirements. These NFPA standards are:

 

NFPA 1006: Standard for Technical Rescuer Professional Qualifications, 2021 Edition

NFPA 1006 describes the performance objectives that individual personnel must meet to achieve the Awareness, Operations, or Technician Level for many rescue disciplines, including Rope Rescue, Confined Space Rescue, Water Rescue and Tower Rescue.

 

NFPA 2500 (1670) Standard for Operations and Training for Technical Search and Rescue Incidents, 2022 Edition

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NFPA 2500 (1670) describes the type of training and procedures that an organization must have in place in order to function at the Awareness, Operations, or Technician level in any of the technical rescue disciplines.

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The lead instructors on Ronin’s Rescue Programs have attended both Ronin and third-party instructor-level training programs. Ronin continually strives to keep the content and instructional technique current with the latest developments and testing in the rescue community. As such Ronin annually attends symposiums such as the International Technical Rescue Symposium, and rescue competitions such as GRIMP Day, Ch’iao and others and continually updates our training and methods to reflect current best practice and innovation.​​​​​
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THARRP – Technical High Angle Rope Rescue Program

THARRP is run jointly by WorkSafe BC (WSBC) and the BC Construction Safety Alliance (BCCSA). THARRP provides funding for eligible fire departments to equip high angle rescue teams, and train high angle rescue instructors.

A THARRP funded instructor is required to meet the competencies of NFPA 1006 Rope Rescue Technician and Tower Rescue Technician. A NFPA Tower Rescue Technician course is the accepted recertification training program for THARRP funded instructors, who are eligible for such training every three years.  Ronin has worked with fire departments to have other recertification accepted. 

Ronin Safety & Rescue Inc. is an approved THARRP training provider.

More information on WSBC/CSABC THARRP can be found at the following link: https://www.bccsa.ca/tharrp_program.php
 

NFPA Rope Rescue Awareness & Operations

 

Duration: 32 Hours

Prerequisites: None

 

Rope Rescue Operations takes a novice rescuer and gives them the skills needed to operate within a team to conduct rope rescue. This program provides individuals training in accordance with NFPA 1006 2021 Rope Rescue Operations Level. Completion of an Operations Level Program is a prerequisite for participation in a Technician Level Program.

 

Skills Taught:

 

  • Harness, PPE, and connections to a rope rescue system

  • Rope, Ties, and equipment

  • Patient Packaging

  • Construct single and multiple-point anchor systems

  • Simple and compound rope mechanical advantage systems for raising 

  • Lowering and Raising operations in high-angle and low angle environments

  • Edge Transitions

  • Litter attending in low angle environment

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NFPA Rope Rescue Technician

 

Duration: 40 Hours

Prerequisites: NFPA Rope Rescue Operations

 

Rope Rescue Technician adds to the Rope Rescue Operations skill set and gives the participant the knowledge and skills to perform technically challenging rescues in a high angle, multi-dimensional environment. Technician Certification is a forty hour program. This program provides individuals training in accordance with NFPA 1006 2021 Rope Rescue Technician Level. The prerequisite for participation in a Technician Certification program is either a Rope Rescue Operations Certification, or evidence of training and competency in the Job Performance Requirements required for Rope Rescue Operations.

 

Skills Taught:

 

  • Accessing a patient using techniques that require rescuers to climb up or down natural or manmade structures

  • Perform a high-angle rope rescue of a person suspended from, or stranded on, a structure or landscape feature, as a team and individually while suspended.

  • Perform a high-angle rope rescue with a litter using attendants to negotiate obstacles or manipulate the patient package.

  • Select, construct, and use a high-line rope system to move a rescuer and a patient along a horizontal path to avoid an obstacle.

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NFPA Tower Rescue Operations & Technician

 

Duration: 24 Hours

Prerequisites: NFPA 1006 Rope Rescue Technician

 

This program provides training in accordance with NFPA 1006 2017 Chapter 4 Tower Rescue, Operations and Technician Levels. Candidates already possessing Tower Rescue Operations certification can achieve Technician Level with sixteen hours of training. 

 

The Tower Rescue Technician Course adapts the Rope Rescue Technician skill set to the unique requirements of operating and performing rescue from tower structures, including tower cranes and antenna towers. Additional competencies include use, operation, and rescue from fall protection systems (including fall arrest lanyards, horizontal lifelines, and energy absorbing lanyards), tower climbing techniques, and pre-climb checklists and rescue planning.

 

Prerequisites for participation in a Tower Rescue Technician Certification program are either a NFPA 1006 Rope Rescue Technician Certification, or evidence of training and competency in the Performance Objectives required for a NFPA 1006 Rope Rescue Technician Rescuer.

 

Skills Taught:

 

Operations Level 

  • Managing exposure to tower hazards

  • Ascending tower structures and accessing victims

  • Releasing a subject from fall protection

  • Lowering a subject vertically down an unobstructed path

  • Performing a rescue of a subject where methods require up to a 15 degree deviation from plumb that can be performed with a tag line

 

Technician Level 

  • Developing Incident Action Plans for Tower environments

  • Ascending tower structures without dedicated climbing systems

  • Operating in a tower environment that will accommodate only one rescuer

  • Ground based rescue of  a suspended victim

  • Performing tower rescues beyond the scope of a ground based rescue system

  • Performing tower rescues requiring multiple rope sets

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RONIN RESCUE WORKSHOPS

 

NFPA Combination Confined Space Rescue and Rope Rescue - Operations

 

Duration: 48 Hours

Prerequisites: None

 

Our 6-day Combination Confined Space/Rope Rescue Awareness & Operations course is a condensed program that takes advantage of the fact that many skills crossover between both disciplines (e.g. mechanical advantage pulley systems). Successful participants will gain the knowledge and skills to be an Operations level rescuer as outlined in NFPA 1006, Chapters 5 Rope Rescue & 7 Confined Space Rescue. The course includes some theory in a classroom, however the focus is on a hands-on approach to learning new equipment and refining techniques. Successful participants will be given two certificates: Confined Space Rescue, Awareness & Operations and Rope Rescue, Awareness & Operations.

 

Skills taught cover the NFPA JPR (Job Performance Requirements) for both Rope Rescue and Confined Space Rescue at the operations level.

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ARTIFICIAL HIGH DIRECTIONALS

 

Duration: 32 Hours

Prerequisites: NFPA 1006 Rope Rescue Technician

 

This program is designed to take Rope Rescue Technicians and provide them with a comprehensive understanding of high directionals. High directionals are becoming more standard equipment with rescue teams to conduct not only confined space rescues but difficult edge transitions and other rescue scenarios where it is beneficial to raise the ropes off the surface. 

 

Skills Taught:

 

  • AHD Assembly

  • Equilateral Tripod

  • Asymmetrical Tripod (Easel Leg)

  • Force Vectors and Resultant Vectors

  • Directional vs. Anchor Frame

  • Guying

  • Bipod Configuration

  • A-Frame Configurations

  • Monopod Configurations

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AHD & ANCHOR (AUSTERE & LIMITED INDUSTRIAL) RIGGING

 

Duration: 40 - 50 Hours

Prerequisites: NFPA 1006 Rope Rescue Technician or equivalent

 

This program combines both AHD and anchor rigging techniques in austere or limited anchorage industrial environments, that have challenging anchoring and edge management concerns. Rescuers can develop training scars conducting training in the same location with the same anchorage. This program is designed to take the rescuer out of their usual rigging locations and comfort zones in order to rig rope and confined space rescue systems in difficult real-world environments. 


 

Skills Taught:

 

  • Multiple AHD Assemblies including purpose built

  • Asymmetrical Tripod (Easel Leg)

  • Force Vectors and Resultant Vectors

  • Directional vs. Anchor Frame

  • Guying

  • Bipod Configuration

  • A-Frame Configurations

  • Monopod Configurations

  • Single and Multipoint anchors for capacity and positioning

  • Use of austere anchoring materials (how much is enough)

  • Differences in types of horizontal anchoring lines

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