Safe Working In Water for Production Crew (SWIWPC)
The Safe Working in Water for Production Crew (SWIWPC) course provides the knowledge and techniques for production crew who need to work in or near water. It covers appropriate PPE and simple rescue techniques to allow safe rescue from water, both basic and moving, and gives simple rescue techniques that can be used to rescue colleagues.
The target audience is TV, film and other media crew or presenters. This course offers a higher level rescue capability than the Safe Working Near Water for Production Crew course.
Contact hours
- 12 hours (2 days)
Prerequisites
- Minimum age: 18
Course content includes
- About Rescue 3
- Training standards and legislation
- Safe systems of work
- Production crew working with safety advisors
- Risk assessments
- Pre-planning for emergencies and rescue
- Hydrology and water hazards
- Cold water considerations
- Mud, ice and coastal considerations
- Biosecurity and environmental considerations
- Medical and decontamination considerations
- Lifejackets vs buoyancy aids
- Buoyancy aid and lifejacket maintenance, periodic inspection and transportation
- Lifejacket firing mechanisms
- Lifejacket accidental inflation risks
- Personal and team equipment
- Considerations for night/poor visibility working
- Communications
- Pre- and post-use lifejacket checks
- Lifejacket inflation and deflation – auto/manual
- Swimming and self-rescue in lifejackets
- Swimming and self-rescue in buoyancy aids
- Throwbags and other conditional rescues
- Shallow water techniques
- Tethered shallow water technique
- Strainer swim
- People and equipment entrapments
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
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.
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