Rope Rescue Operator (RRO)
The course introduces the rope knowledge and skills required by personnel to operate safely and effectively as a member of a Rope Rescue Operator team, undertaking rescues using the skills covered in the course. The techniques, equipment, and straightforward venues with limited environmental complexity, should be gold standard examples, providing a clear mental model of the best practice for operating as a rope rescue team. More advanced rescues, complexities and variations, are covered on the Rope Rescue Technician (RRT) and Rope Rescue Specialist (RRS) courses.
Course length:
5 days
Prerequisites:
- Prior experience of working with ropes is recommended
- Minimum age: 18
Course content includes
- Rescue 3 philosophy
- Training standards and legislation
- Medical considerations
- Personal equipment
- Technical and team equipment
- Pre-planning
- Risk assessments
- Incident size-up
- Incident management and site control
- Loads and forces
- System safety checks
- Communications
- Knots
- Anchor systems
- Rope protection
- Work restraint
- Fall arrest
- Mechanical advantage
- Casualty care and packaging
- Personal ascending and descending
- Climbing over a 90 degree edge in ascent and descent
- Individual pickoffs
- Team-based pickoffs
- Litter attending – low angle
- Team-based raising and lowering systems
- Litter attending – high angle
- Fixed high directionals
- Tagline offsets
- Scenarios
- Climbing with lanyards (if used by agency)
- Temporary artificial anchor points (if used by agency)
- Connecting a casualty on a line using a telescopic pole (if used by agency)
- Lifting and lowering a casualty using a pre-installed device (if used by agency)
- Artificial high directionals – tripods, quadpods (if used by agency)
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:
- Rope Rescue Operator Instructor (RROI)
- Rope Rescue Technician Instructor (RRTI)
- Rope Rescue Specialist Instructor (RRSI)
Student resources
Student resources for Rescue 3 courses can be accessed here.
Instructor resources
Instructor resources for Rescue 3 courses can be accessed here.
