Rescue Plan Development Strategies
Rescue Plan don’t have to be
Complex
Employers should implement a rescue plan that includes
procedures for
- Preventing prolonged suspension
- Performing rescue and treatment as quickly as
possible
- Identifying suspension trauma signs and symptoms
Management responsibility for safety needs to give careful
consideration to the methodology of rescuing a fallen operative.
Such
considerations might include:
Crane Man Basket – This
option has severe limitations, the main one being time. Target time from ‘Man
Down’ to being recovered needs to be no more than five to ten minutes maximum.
Other restrictions and shortcomings that make this less than ideal solutions
are – the crane is out of action for some reason, e.g. it may be:
- Winded off
- The driver may be away from the crane
- Rescue by crane is limited to building facades
and often is not able to provide access and rescue internal to the structure
- The crane man basket may be in the wrong
location
Mobile Elevated Working Platforms
(M.E.W.P’s)
This option for rescue can have its limitations such as
available access and height restriction as the casualty may be at a height
greater than the reach of the M.E.W.P.
Rope Access Rescue –
Rope rescue requires a technical competency which demands a high level of
training and re-training to acquire and retain this skill set. Given the
limited time to complete a rescue, trained rope rescue personnel would need to
be on stand-by and within close proximity to any incident. Donning the
necessary kit to carry out a rope rescue can also be time consuming given that
every minute the casualty is hanging is critical. Perhaps the greatest
restriction is that it is a skill to which only few would, or could be trained.
Third Party Rescue Systems
– There are a number of considerations to take into account when considering
third part rescue systems. In every consideration TIME is the critical factor.
The speed with which the system can be deployed and the rescue carried out is
vitally important, as is the SIMPLICITY and EASE of use so that a typical
operative can deploy and carry out a rescue after being trained. Remember,
whichever methodology you choose, the target time should be to rescue the
casualty in under ten minutes.
Planning for Fall Protection must
include Rescue – Having a rescue plan is just important as having a
fall protection plan. No site should have one without the other. Just putting
together a fall protection program without rescue is only doing half the job.
The onus is on the employer to ensure that the suspended operative is rescued
quickly. That means ensuring that for anyone who works for height, there is a
rescue plan.
Fall protection must include an
emergency rescue plan – How will you rescue an operative who has
fallen and is suspended in a fall-arrest system ? Answering some basic
questions can help in developing a rescue plan.
Developing a Rescue plan
– A rescue plan requires answers to the following questions. If an operatives
fall is arrested, can they be rescued in under ten minutes ?
How will you know that someone has fallen ?
Will someone see it happen ?
- Co-workers
- Other trades
- Plant personnel
- Members of the public
- article from Focus Rescue Management
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