HIGH ANGLE ROPE TECHNIQUES (HART) PROGRAM
What the HART Program offers:
- One 4-hour safety course: Fall Arrest for Firefighters.
- One 8-hour course on slope evacuation: Low Angle Extraction
- Three 22-hour courses in rope rescue: Awareness, Operations, and Technician.
- One 4-hour management course: High Angle Team Management
- Two 22-hour courses, under development, in confined space rescue: Level I – Clean Confined Space, and Level II – Contaminated Confined Space.
- One 22-hour course, under development, in Wilderness Access.
Three courses on ice rescue: Awareness, Operations, and Technician.
Course titles:
- Fall Arrest for Firefighters
- Low Angle Extraction
- High Angle Rescue – Awareness Level
- High Angle Rescue – Operations Level
- High Angle Rescue – Technician Level
- High Angle Team Management
- Level I – Clean Confined Space
- Level II – Contaminated Confined Space
- Wilderness Access
- Ice Rescue – Awareness Level
Ice Rescue – Operations Level
Ice Rescue – Technician Level
Who needs this training:
Firefighters involved in rooftop operations, e.g. flue fires, or providing roadside assistance to EMS.
Ambulance services, to aid in roadside evacuations of injured persons up steep grades.
Refineries, plants, factories and other industrial settings where catwalks, man-lifts, vats and silos exist, and from were injured workers may have to be evacuated.
Ground search and rescue (GSAR) personnel who remove victims from sloping or vertical terrain.
Any emergency service providers that use ropes to either safeguard personnel, access an emergency site, or retrieve an accident victim.
Where the training is provided:
Primarily at the client’s location because we prefer to train in the environment where the students are expected to operate, using the equipment that the agency has available.
However, we will also hold open classes when too few students come from any one agency. These courses can take place at any venue, preferably in the Moncton area to avoid instructor travel expenses.
When the courses are offered:
- At any time that is mutually agreeable to the clients and instructors.
Why this training is necessary:
- Authorities are increasingly demanding a more professional approach to emergency response, e.g. provincial legislation (policing services act), Occupational Health & Safety regulations, and through the Fire Marshal’s Office adoption of NFPA standards.
- Modern lifestyle makes wilderness adventures more appealing.
- Adventure tourism is increasing.
- The general public, as well as participants of adventure-based activities, have a high expectation of adequate response during an emergency.
- Appropriate training mitigates liability of emergency responders.
- The days of improvised rescue are gone, along with ignorance as a defense in civil actions.
How many students per course:
- The courses are established to accommodate up to 16 students, which will retain a maximum student-to-teacher ratio of 6:1.
- A minimum of 6 students is required to conduct the field exercises.
The Instructors:
- These certificate-bearing courses are taught by a team of three instructors who are presently working in the rescue field and have over sixty (60) years of combined rope rescue experience. The instructors live in the Moncton area but are willing to travel to the emergency response unit’s location to provide the training, which will be scheduled at mutually acceptable dates and times.
If you have any specific training needs, do not hesitate to contact us at your convenience.
Questions, comments and requests for additional information or training may be addressed to:
Christopher G. (Chris) Steeves, Sr.
c/o Cape Enrage Interpretive Centre
47622 Homestead Road, Berry Mills, NB E1G 4P8, Canada
Office Phone Toll Free: 1-888-280-7273
Office Phone: (506) 887-2273 (887-CAPE)
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