Theory:
• Official regulatory standards and applicable Brazilian Standards;
• Safety principles of a rescue operation;
• Identification of risks associated with a rescue operation;
• Evaluation of risk × benefit in a rescue operation;
• Certification of rescue equipment and systems;
• Selection and correct use of personal rescue equipment: Safety Harness; Slings or lanyards; connectors; helmet; gloves; descender; ascenders; fall arrest; stirrup;
• Selection and correct use of collective rescue equipment: ropes; slings; rings; ribbons or anchor beads; connectors; pulleys; blockers; stretcher; tripod; descenders; ascenders;
• Effect of the angles formed by the anchors on the distribution of loads;
• Performance limits of rope progression equipment used in casualty rescues;
• Pre-use and periodic inspections of individual and collective rescue equipment used;
• Identification of operational readiness conditions or damage, defects and wear to refuse equipment that has been disapproved according to the manufacturers' instructions;
• Methods for cleaning, packing and transporting rescue equipment;
• Conceptualization of the shock force generated by retaining a fall from a height;
• Concept of fall factor;
• Knowledge of how inert suspension trauma develops and its main therapeutic measures;
• Use of available means of communication, as well as terminology used as standard language for emergencies;
• Conceptualization of vertical rope progression techniques for rescues;
• Technical factors that affect the efficiency of a rope and/or confined space rescue (for example: performance, speed, range, duration, weather conditions, confined space environment, rescuer, etc.).
Practice:
• Installation and operation of pre-engineered rescue or evacuation systems;
• Assembly of the main stringing nodes used in rescues (blocking, finishing, splicing, anchoring, and securing);
• Assembly of simple anchorages, semi-equalised anchorages, fractional anchorages and deviations with string knots;
• Assembly and operation of single mechanical advantage systems (block);
• Performing rope progression techniques in rescues for ascending, descending, passing fractions, deviations and knots;
• Performing descent techniques on tensioned ropes;
• Performing progression techniques on horizontal and inclined zip lines;
• Use of means of fortune applied to rope rescue techniques;
• Performing rescue techniques with rope progression for descending with casualties passing fractions, deviations and knots;
• Performing rescue techniques with rope progression to move the casualty downwards or upwards;
• Performing rescue techniques with rope progression to unblock casualties suspended from descenders, ascenders or personal protection systems against falls;
• (Knowledge of) the different types of stretchers for vertical transport, as well as their compatibility with the type of operation or the casualty's injury;
• Techniques for immobilizing casualties on stretchers, with or without the use of spinal or limb immobilizers;
• Techniques for vertical movement of casualties at height or in confined spaces using pre-engineered rescue and evacuation systems or simple mechanical advantage systems;
• Assembly and operation of systems for vertical and horizontal movement of stretchers on tensioned ropes (zip lines) horizontally and diagonally;
• Basic stretcher movement techniques (vertical, horizontal and terrestrial);
• Techniques for using respiratory protective equipment applied to rescue.
Total Contact Time: 32 hours Theory: 08 hours Practice: 24 hours