COURSE SCOPE
This course provides the skills and knowledge needed for the awareness-level confined space rescue technician to support an operations - or technician-level incident including sizing up and incident, identifying and isolation hazards, initiating a search in areas immediately adjacent to a confined space, communicating with victims, and performing nonentry rescue.

This course does not qualify participants to make permit-required entries.

TOPICS

• Identifying Regulations and Standards
• Describing Lessons Learned
• Defining a Confined Space
• Defining a Permit-Required Confined Space
• Describing the Required Positions and Elements of an Entry Permit
• Supporting and Operations or Technician Level Incident
• Sizing Up a Confined Space Rescue Incident
• Recognizing the Need for Technical Rescue Resources
• Identifying Hazards
• Initiating Isolation Procedures
• Initiating a Search in Areas Immediately Adjacent to a Confined Space
• Communicating with Victim(s)
• Performing Non-Entry Rescue