Safe Working Near Water (DEFRA Level 1 Flood Awareness) - Currently Unavailable due to Covid-19 Regulations
(Emergency Personnel/Commercial & Industrial Users)
This course provides the knowledge and techniques to allow employees to provide bank-based rescue cover for their colleagues working next to basic water environments (eg small lakes, canals, sheltered harbours, and marinas where use of a powered safety boat is not required).
Course length:
14 hours (2 days)
Course content includes:
- Standards in Water Rescue
- The 'absolutes' of Water and Flood Rescue
- Rescuer safety
- Water and flood dynamics, hydrology and hazards
- Basic swiftwater swimming and self rescue
- Flood theory
- 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
- Dynamic risk assessment
- Risk zones
- Cold water immersion
- Personal protective equipment
- PFD types and standards
- Firing mechanisms
- Selection and correct fitting of lifejacket as part of PPE system
- Adaption for high risk areas
- Periodic maintenance/inspection regime
- Pre-use and post-use checks
- Accidental immersion and auto inflation
- Still water swimming drills
- Moving water swimming drills
- Manual inflation and deflation
- Rescue drills with lifejacket
Prerequisites:
Must be a confident swimmer
Minimum age 18
Qualification valid for:
3 years
