PUASAR025 Undertake Confined Space Rescue
This unit covers the competency required to undertake rescue in confined spaces, as defined in AS 2865-2009 Confined spaces, as a member of a single agency or multi-disciplinary team.
Course Content
The course covers the following;
- Introduction
- Confined space regulations
- Occupational Safety and Health administration
- Working in accordance with procedures
- Confined space situations
- Workers entering confined spaces
- Hazards
- Rescue equipment evaluation
- Select and check equipment
- Chemistry of fire
- Extinguishing fires
- Fire classifications
- Prepare for confined space rescue
- Sources of information
- Documentation
- Equipment for the rescue of the casualty
- Stretchers
- Placing the casualty
- Communication equipment
- Requirement for confined space equipment
- Maintaining communication
- Resipratory equipment
- Selection, use and maintenance
- SCBA
- Reasons for Breathing Apparatus protection
- Judgement to use BA
- Where BA can be used
- Duration of BA sets
- Turnaround pressure
- Calculating the time of whistle
- Purpose of a guideline
- Additional controls when using guidelines
- Using guidelines
- Safety and operational procedures
- Safe working practices
- Emergency procedures
- Personal Protective Equipment
- PCBU
- Workers responsibility
- Engulfment
- Entrapment
- Other hazards
- PPE and thermal protection
- Personal hazards
- Hygiene
- Securing and preserving the scene
- Pre-incident planning
- Individual and crew preparation
- Phase 2 assessment
- Pre-entry operations
- Atmospheric monitoring equipment
- Responsibilities during the entry and rescue operations phase
- Primary search
- Secondary search
Duration
6.5 Hours