Water & Flood Awareness
Designed to provide personnel who may be working near water with sufficient knowledge to be aware of the hazards created by this environment and develop an understanding of water rescue techniques.
These programmes are designed around your specific needs; we have developed a evening session for mountain rescue or can day-by long programmes covering all the areas required by DEFRA.
We can also help to ‘train the trainer’ providing full resources including powerpoint slides and trainer notes for you to deliver your own training.
Areas covered:
- Water rescue standards
- Rescuer instruction philosophy and ‘absolutes’
- Rescuer safety
- Water and flood dynamics and hazards
- Basic swiftwater swimming and self rescue
- Flood theory
- Personal and team equipment
- On-scene safety briefing and site control
- Pre-planning and incident management
- Drowning, medical and personal welfare considerations
- Mud, ice and unstable surface considerations
- Communications
Delivered at any suitable location.
