Rescue 3 Safe Working in Water 11th-12th Sept 2024

Date and Location

11th-12th Sept 2024 – Staveley, Kendal

About

The Safe Working In Water (SWIW) course is designed for people tasked with working in water who will need a self- and co-worker rescue capability using conditional rescue techniques, eg throwbags, wading techniques and reach poles. The target audience is EA, SEPA, NRW personnel, construction industry workers, road and bridge maintenance workers

Course content:

• Workplace legislation
• Safe systems of work
• 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 techniques
• Strainers
• People and equipment entrapments