This course provides the knowledge and techniques for employees who need to work in or near water. It covers appropriate PPE and simple rescue techniques to allow safe rescue from water, both basic and moving, and gives simple rescue techniques that can be used to rescue co-workers.

Course content includes:

• About Rescue 3
• 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