Confined Space Rescue Technician (CSRT)
The Confined Space Rescue Technician (CSRT) course covers concepts and techniques to enable small teams to undertake technical confined space rescues. Both individual and team skills are extensively addressed. Topics that are thoroughly covered are hazard, gas detection, legislation, international guidelines, key learning, extensive loads and forces, building anchors, using pulley systems, use of tripod for entry and evacuation, self-climbing and rappelling, lowering and hoisting of rescuer and victim, use of stretchers and various stretcher configurations in confined spaces, moving and evacuations from manholes, victim care, building horizontal span, situation analysis, incident management and various scenarios.
Contact hours
30 hours (5 days)
Prerequisites:
- Confined Space Rescue Operator (CSRO)
- Minimum age: 18
Course content includes
- Rescue 3 philosophy
- Confined space hazards and risk assessment
- Use of detector tubes
- Supplied air systems
- Hardwire communication systems
- Rescue systems analysis
- Safe systems of work and permits to work
- Use of PID meters
- On-scene safety briefing and site control
- Knots
- Anchor systems
- Belay systems and operations
- Use of different types of fall arrest equipment
- Loads and forces
- Tensioning systems and mechanical advantage
- Personal ascending and descending
- Litter attending – low angle
- Litter attending – high angle
- Vertical/horizontal litter transitions
- Horizontal confined space entry and rescue
- Vertical confined space entry and rescue
- Rope-based raising and lowering systems over an edge with artificial high directional
- Individual pick-off rescues
- Team-based pick-off and team-based casualty evacuations
- Use of SAR for rescue
- Confined space rescue harnesses and stretchers
- Mirrored team-based raising and lowering systems
- Offsets – deflection
- Offsets – guiding line
- Offsets – tracking line
- Scenarios
Course standard, learning outcomes and key teaching points
Rescue 3 Europe course standards, learning outcomes and key teaching points
The course standards, learning outcomes and key teaching points are provided as pre- and post-course reference for people involved in the delivery of Rescue 3 courses (eg Rescue 3 training providers, instructors and students). They are not to be used for any other purpose without the express written permission of Rescue 3 Europe.
Qualification valid for
3 years
Taught by:
- Confined Space Rescue Technician Instructor (CSRTI)
- Confined Space Rescue Specialist Instructor (CSRSI)
Recertification options
Instructor to student ratios
Student resources
Student resources for Rescue 3 courses can be accessed here.
Instructor resources
Instructor resources for Rescue 3 courses can be accessed here.
