Technical Vertical Emergency Response Team Training (TVERT)

Designed around the Incident Command System (ICS) Technical Vertical Emergency Responce Team (TVERT) Training produces wind turbine specific non-traditional first responders capable of and qualified to effect Rope Rescue, Confined Space Entry type rescues into Hubs, Blades, Bacements of a Wind Turbine Generator, and respond to trauma at height in the tower, Nasal internal and external.

TVERT Audit

Course Code: TVERT1007

Course: Tecnical Vertical Emergency Rescue Team

Duration of the Training

56  Hours – 7 days

Course Ratio

8:1

Compliance

ISO 11228-1,2,3 ISO 22320:2018

Laws & Regulations

HSA, HSW (GA) at Work (Confined Spaces) – Reg 2001

 

HSE Confined Space Reg 1997, IC-V2-3E

 

EU Directive : 89/655/EEC

 

OSHA 1910 & 1926, NFPA 1561, ICS 100

 

CA, ICS I 100 Through I400 & I 402

A TVERT team enables wind farm owners and wind turbine manufacturers to efficiently direct resources to provide rapid, standardized response to all vertical emergencies.

TVERT is a two level training program;

  • Level I – Technician
  • Level II – Supervisor

Level I Technician is trained in the fundamental skills and knowledge necessary to operate within the professional rescue response.

  • Conduct task specific selection criteria
  • handle the casualty (litter tending and safe transferring)
  • evaluate systems procedures, components and integrity

Level II Technician is trained to manage the rescue response or operate within positions of casualty responsibility. Level II Technicians in addition to holding Level I skills are trained to ensuring the risks to the casualty and other rescuers are minimized.

Examples of Level II Requirements;

  • perform hazard identification and risk assessment
  • direct a team
  • preplan incident response
  • advanced rescue skills and rigging

Prerequisite;

All delegates must have a current  Access & Rescue Certification.

Confined Space Entry & Rescue Level 2 and First Aid CPR Certification. 

Training Programs

Trauma First Aid/AED

2 day – 16 hours

For professional rescuers or medical personnel (Trauma/CPR/AED for the field   delegate person required prior)

Trauma First Aid Course is 16 hours and designed to provide needed skills, other than normal basic first aid in remote care. Based on recommendations from Health and Safety Instatute & Pre-hospital Emergency Care Councel, Field first Aid programs and evidence-based research, our curriculum focuses on making sound decisions regarding patient evacuation, as well as skills for extended care.

Trauma First Aid courses are hands-on, experiential format providing students with the skills and confidence for making remote medical care decisions. Remote First Aid is ideal for wind energy, remote industries, remote site workers, who either work or play away from definitive medical facilities and support.

EVALUATE CASUALTY

UNDERSTAND VITAL BODY FUNCTIONS

Basic Measures for First Aid

  • OPEN THE AIRWAY AND RESTORE BREATHING
  • STOP THE BLEEDING AND PROTECT THE WOUND
  • CHECK AND TREAT FOR SHOCK

First Aid for Special Wounds

  • GIVE PROPER FIRST AID FOR HEAD INJURIES
  • GIVE PROPER FIRST AID FOR CHEST AND ABDOMINAL WOUNDS AND BURN INJURIES
  • APPLY PROPER BANDAGES TO UPPER AND LOWER EXTREMITIES
    •  First Aid for Fractures
    • First Aid for Climatic Injury
    • First Aid for Bites and Stings
    • First Aid in Toxic Environments                                                                                                              
    • Suspension Trauma
    • Emotional trauma and debriefing                   

       Incident command systems

1- Day – 8 hours

  • The Incident Command System is an organizational structure where goal prioritization and predefined roles and responsibilities lead to an effective and efficient mitigation effort. The ICS system, developed and enhanced during international disaster events, is the foremost incident management system tool and in use for over 35 years. It is now used worldwide in both the public and private sector.
  • Focus is on the Operations responsibilities but ties directly to local Emergency Response Teams
  • Apply the NIMS Incident Command System (ICS)
  • Demonstrate how ICS Establishes its Role in Emergency Management
  • Identify Current Requirements for Public Safety
  • Identify Interagency Cooperation (Public/Private)
  • Apply Command and Control Skills During Simulations
  • Apply Emergency Response Management Techniques

 Rope Rescue for Wind Turbines

4 – Days – 32 hours

This technician-level technical rope rescue course is the “Gold Standard” for rope rescue training. It is an intense and demanding course, but we utilize simple, logical steps with lots of hands-on experience to facilitate learning. Students advance from basic over-the-hub/nacelle rescues to progressively more vertical scenarios. Course includes pre-planning and size-up of rope rescue operations; knots, hitches and anchor systems; belay operations; ascending and descending; raising and lowering systems; and patient packaging and litter attending, among other skills and techniques.

  • Rope Access and Rescue Fundamentals – ISO 22846, SPRAT Code of Safe Practice
    • Multi point anchor systems
    • Relationship of angles and forces
    • Ascending/descending fixed ropes
    • Belay systems
    • Rope to Rope Transfers
    • Safety check
  • Rigging retrieval systems
    • Compound rope mechanical advantage systems
    • Force reduction methods
    • Design efficiency and knot selection
  • Edge protection and negotiation from nacelle and hub to suspension
  • Rigging releasable systems
  • Breaking into tensioned lines
  • Rescue Descent

Confined Space Rescue

2 – Days – 16 hours

This course is designed for those in wind energy rescue teams which may have to respond to confined space and high angle rescue situations, a common hazard for many industrial facilities. With most of the course being dedicated to field “hands-on” activities, the student hones skills that were learned in the basic course, as well more advanced skills that are crucial to safe and effective rescue work. Topics of instruction in which the student will participate include: anchor development, knot tying refreshment, load and force factors, repelling, self rescue, pick offs and advanced rigging techniques such as high-lines

  • Entry type rescues into confined spaces
  • Patient packaging into a litter and Spec pak
    • Spinal Management techniques
    • Casualty immobilization
  • Lowering immobilized victim to the ground
  • Tending to a litter while descending and providing resucitation
  • Understand hazards and responsibilities common to jurisdictional boundaries

TVERT Continuing Training Program (CTP)

After successful completion of this course and establishment of the Vertical Emergency Response Team, Working at Height Ltd will plan and implement an annual 5 – Day advanced rescue skills training and drill on site with a new scenario practiced each year. , Day 1 program evaluation equipment inspection and practical ICS scenarios Day 2,3,4 – advanced rescue skills  training Day 5 Rescue Drills,Debrief and Assessment

Day 1 – 8Hours

Equipment Inventory and Inspection

Review team roles, individual strengths

Practical Incident response simulations

Debrief

Assessment

 Day 2 – 8Hours

Level I or Level II  review of technical access required skill sets (SPRAT/NFPA)

Development of method statement (risk assessment)

Test and assessment

 Day 3 – 8Hours

Trauma First Aid

Review of trauma scenarios (12)

Assessment

Day 4 – 8Hours

Rescue training incorporating trauma skills

Debrief

Assessment

 Day 5 – 8Hours

Two rescue drills

Debrief

assessment

 Working at Height Ltd requires documented Proof  that a skills maintenance drill be practiced quarterly and will help with the implementation of this training as requested.

Confined Space Entry

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