Engineering Practical Rope Rescue Systems

Beginners and advanced rescue technicians will learn from and enjoy this entertaining and educational book. A practical look at rope rescue systems from the point of view of an experienced professional, each chapter features exciting stories and real life situations. The book provides a complete look at team integrity and development issues as well as team efficiency concepts that create a superior survival profile for users. Interesting, current, and sometimes controversial topics within the rope rescue community are featured throughout.

Exam Prep: Technical Rescue-High Angle is designed to thoroughly prepare you for a Technical Rescue certification, promotion, or training examination by including the same type of multiple-choice questions you are likely to encounter on the actual exam. To help improve examination scores, this preparation guide follows Performance Training Systems, Inc.'s Systematic Approach to Examination Preparation. Exam Prep: Technical Rescue-High Angle is written by fire personnel explicitly for fire personnel, and all content has been verified with the latest reference materials and by a technical review committee. Your exam performance will improve after using this system!

Practical, thorough, and current, this guide to rope rescue offers you detailed instructions for numerous rope rescue techniques, as well as industry insight on how to apply these techniques effectively on scene.. Based on the 2008 NFPA Standard 1006 and 2009 NFPA Standard 1670 Technical Rescue: Rope Rescue provides expansive coverage, including commonly used knots, practical rigging methods, incident and scene management, lowering systems, tensioned rope systems, and more. With a comprehensive yet simplified approach to a wide variety of techniques, the book breaks down some of the barriers that have traditionally divided urban rope rescue teams and rural or wilderness rescue teams.

"This title is based on the 2021 Edition of NFPA 1006 and addresses the rope rescue discipline. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the technical rescue and rope rescue environments, focusing on the knowledge and skills required to effectively perform a wide variety of rescues"--

Guides the reader in the development and maintenance of a rope access program Provides comprehensive guidance for employers, safety managers and rope access technicians to develop, maintain, and manage a rope access program Offers specific guidance for writing a comprehensive managed fall protection plan that includes rope access Thoroughly describes how to perform specific rope access maneuvers that can be used to offer greater safety when working at height Shows how a well-managed rope access program can be used as a tool to get more work accomplished at a lower cost and with greater efficiency than conventional methods can achieve Discusses and clarifies unique distinctions of equipment for rope access, as compared with equipment for fall arrest, positioning, and restraint

Written by internationally renown rope rigging instructor, Pat Rhodes, this book addresses a wide assortment of analytical concepts that are needed in the vocation of rope rescue.In addition, Pat offers the serious rope rescue technician an unparalleled treatment of the Vortex Multipod.NFPA 1670 requires departments that wish to perform at the Rope Rescue Technician Level to be proficient in the following areas:1. Comprehension of the fundamental physics involved in rope rescue systems, including system safety factors, critical angles, and the causes and effects of force multipliers within rope rescue systems.2. Constructing elevated anchor points to facilitate safe transition of rescuers or victims over difficult edges.3. Construct and operate highlines, i.e. Horizontal Systems.Analytical Concepts for Rope Rescue is simply the most definitive book today that truly addresses these demanding requirements.

Your Definitive High Angle Rope Rescue Guide! The fourth edition of High-Angle Rope Rescue Techniques: Levels I & II provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of high-angle rescue, including planning, PPE and equipment, medical considerations, evacuations, and special rescue operations. Based on the 2013 edition of NFPA 1006, Standard for Technical Rescuer Professional Qualifications, High-Angle Rope Rescue Techniques: Levels I & II provides a broad overview of all rescue techniques to meets the needs of fire service, search and rescue, and many other rope rescue professionals. The fourth edition has been updated to include: Coverage of new protective equipment, terminology, rescue products, and techniques. All new Skill Drills that provide step-by-step instruction on how to execute important skills and procedures. Separation of High-Angle Rope Rescue I and II Level content throughout the textbook and instructor resources.

This exciting, full-color text is sure to set the standard for industrial and confined space rescue. It contains 350 illustrations that clearly show rigging and knotting techniques, as well as photographs that show rescue/training and clinical management scenarios. * More than 350 full-color illustrations clearly show rigging and technical rescue systems * Contains photographs that depict rescue/training and clinical management scenarios * Offers "real-world" examples of important skills, techniques, and concepts in a handy appendix * User-friendly format features boxed text, sidebars, and margin text for easy retrieval of information

This manual offers a contemporary treatment of the ever changing urban technical rescue environment and the central issues that drive this demanding profession. All too often, well intentioned, but misinformed instructors teach ?wheelbarrow rescues? in which rope systems are over built and ?bigger is better? overrules logic. In comparison, Pat Rhodes provides specific insight to commonsense skills that are safe, practical and efficient. Urban Technical Rescue, Vol. 1 will challenge, even shatter, some of the cumbersome and traditionally sacred rope and confined space rescue techniques that have become embedded in today?s fire/rescue community.