Life Jacket Competent User (1 day) Training Course

For personnel who operate adjacent to the water as part of their key job function, eg construction workers, EA water hydrometry staff etc. As such, it is not intended that they will enter the water, and a manual or auto inflation lifejacket is worn as PPE for protection.

Course content includes

• About Rescue 3 Europe
• Workplace legislation
• Safe systems of work
• Cold water considerations
• Medical and decontamination considerations
• Accidental immersion considerations
• Lifejacket and PPE selection
• Lifejacket maintenance, periodic inspection and transportation
• Lifejacket firing mechanisms
• Lifejacket accidental inflation risks
• Pre- and post-use lifejacket checks
• Lifejacket inflation and deflation – auto/manual
• Swimming and self-rescue in lifejackets
• Throwbags and other conditional rescues
• Exiting the water