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EUSR Basic Tower Climbing and Rescue

This course focuses on safe access and egress on telecommunications masts and towers. It teaches how to undertake a single line emergency rescue to recover a casualty.

Description

EUSR Approved Training

This course focuses on the safe access and egress to telecommunications masts and towers and teaches how to undertake a single line emergency rescue to recover a casualty.

The syllabus includes the use of fixed ladders and open structure climbing using both fixed and temporary fall arrest systems and the use of personal fall protection equipment. Training throughout the three days will take places indoors and outdoors with training heights up to 30 metres.

All persons, within the telecoms and utilities industries, who are required to climb open steelwork as well as work outside the confines of a safe working platform should attend this course.

Theory
• Understanding legislation and safety standards
• Assessing risk
• Managing common hazards
• Developing rescue plans

Practical
• Pre use inspection including the fitting of harnesses
• Pre use inspection of fall arrest lanyards
• Pre use inspection of work positioning lanyards
• Tying and use of knots
• Inspecting and use of fixed fall arrest systems
• Using additional fall prevention equipment
• Climbing techniques
• Inspecting rescue equipment
• Managing suspension syncope
• Selecting rescue techniques
• Self-rescue
• Remote rescue/casualty lower
• Casualty pulley/haulage system – off weighting
• Snatch/cut away rescue
• Undertaking rescues
• Selecting anchor points

Certification Method: Continual Practical Assessment and a 60 min written test. Delegates are allowed 2 attempts to pass the written test.

Certification valid for 1 year. Approved by MATS/EUSR

Prerequisites

No prior climbing experience required. Delegates must be physically fit and hold an in date Medical, be 18 years old or over and have a head for heights (climb up to 30m)

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