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suspended worker rescue, and rope access or fall protection. Your hands-on train- ing also will need to include the use of the rescue equipment at your facility because your responders and rescuers must have knowledge on how to use this equipment properly and effectively. And you will need to stay updated and knowledgeable on the latest equipment and techniques for emer- gency response so your team has the ability to safely respond and rescue.
Sound impossible? No resources? Start by finding a third-party emergency re- sponse training and service provider who can assist you in developing the proper hands-on, scenario-based training for your environment and identify the technical skillsets needed, as well as the type of res- cue equipment required. And don’t forget to engage your responders to help, because it is their role to overcome any challenges or obstacles in a real emergency.
2. Build a space that represents your facility at a third-party training center.
Most commonly, an industrial facility is not available or may not be feasible to use for hands-on training. To use an em- ployer’s facility, some operations may have to be temporarily shut down or interrupted to re-enact or create a realistic, scenario- based emergency. In this case, another op- tion is to use a third-party facility that was specifically built for industrial emergencies and provides hands-on, scenario-based training for responders and rescuers. Simi- lar to the props and structures built for, and by, public service firefighters, the Northeast Tech Rescue Training Center was built for industrial businesses to train their teams. The center offers access to training oppor- tunities that companies may not have ac- cess to elsewhere.
Designed and built in collaboration with professional first responders and res- cue training experts, the center is centrally located in the United States in Pryor, Okla., and is a six-story, state-of-the-art res- cue training facility aimed at saving lives through education and hands-on skills training. The structure is designed so that the challenges are easily interchangeable, never the same, and easily replicate rescue scenarios that industrial rescuers might encounter. Utilizing various Vo-tech pro- grams, the center will build you a space that simulates your facility so your team is trained specifically to the types of response
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