Surface Ice Awareness

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This 4-hour classroom session provides an introduction to the due diligence and risk management requirements associated with supervising personnel who work on surface ice including frozen lakes, ponds, and rivers. The course identifies hazards associated with surface ice and introduces the safe work procedures and equipment that can be used to reduce the risk. The curriculum is geared to the needs of field personnel who work alone or in pairs with limited equipment.

Contact Hours

4 hours

Prerequisites

None

Qualification valid for

3 years

Surface Ice Rescue Technician

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Because there is no such thing as “safe ice”, Rescue 3’s Surface Ice Rescue Technician course teaches you how to operate as safely as possible in this high-risk environment. This course is especially valuable for those who work on frozen lakes and rivers, or for emergency service personnel who may be called on to respond to an incident where someone has fallen through the ice.

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Surface Ice Field Safety

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This course is comprehensive training for those who work or travel on ice over lakes, ponds, and reservoirs, or rivers that are completely frozen over. The curriculum includes the formation of ice and the factors that influence its decay, how to determine ice thickness, the identification of hazards, travelling on ice, self rescue and a range of options for the rescue of others - including single rescuer techniques for field personnel that work in pairs. The curriculum also includes the medical complications posed by cold water immersion and hypothermia, and the significant implications for rescue and transport.

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Surface Ice Rescue Specialist (SIRS)

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For personnel who operate on frozen, large volume rivers with open leads.

This course typically runs 3 days and covers all of the skills taught in Surface Ice Rescue Technician (SIRT), as well as addressing the substantially higher-risk environment encountered when working on large volume rivers with open leads. Also covered are size up, risk analysis, and hazard mitigation, PPE considerations, self-rescue techniques, and throw bagging. Scenario-based training using both standard and improvised ice rescue equipment will be carried out.

This course can also be taught as a 1 day upgrade for students who have already completed the Surface Ice Rescue Technician (SIRT) course.

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