RTR WORKSHOP, AUSTIN #U22-1001

SCHEDULE:

Monday to Friday. Early starts and long days.

Day 1: 517 S Pleasant Valley Rd, Austin, TX (Subject to change)

Description:

This 5-day, 10+ hours per day seminar is designed for rescue and rope access team leaders. Each day will be a combination of classroom learning and preparation followed by field-testing of systems, including the failing of those systems. This failure will be followed up with the students implementing a recovery of the system and rescuing the rescuer and patient from the failed system – a truly worse case rescue scenario all while recording relevant data and documenting practices.

Attendees will have the rare-if-ever opportunity to experience failures that are usually only talked about as theory and execute recoveries from those failures.

The required evening sessions will consist of Team Leader topics such as rescue pre-planning, command and communications, strategy and tactics of rope and confined space rescues, 10:1 SSSF, SWL WLL and MBS, Redundancy, Is Stronger Better? , and Small Team tactics.

*System failures have been carefully designed for safety and will not use live loads.

Field topics may include:

Highlines and double reeve systems

Skate Blocks

TTRS and DMDB choices and consequences

Pick-offs

AHD failures

Students must be NFPA Rope Technician, ITRA 3, MRA Rescue Leader, GRIMP IMP3 or Rope Access L3 qualified at a minimum. This course will be mentally and physically demanding.

Gear:

All system rope in class will be 11mm (7/16)

Required:

Manufactured Class II or III harness

Helmet

Gloves

Rugged, closed toe shoes

Long pants

Water bottle

Pen and notepad

Hands free stop DCD or system with hands free stop.

Ascending system with 2 points of attachment at or above the waist

Dynamic cowstails or lanyards for fall protection/positioning

6 24kn or greater locking carabiners

Assorted short slings and prusik cords

5+m accessory cord

Recommended:

Backup/Fall Arrest device

Mechanical Ascending system

Small rope grab

Small Rescue pulley

Humility/Joy

Sense of humor

*We will have supplemental gear available to fill in gaps or give you options to try different gear/systems.  Please contact us if you have any specific needs.