Training Day

Hi all,

Just a little something to share with you, that you may find of use when looking for an arborist to carry out your tree work. As a large, professional company it's obvious that health and safety plays a vital part in keeping us, the public and our clients safe. Every year we run a training day where we simulate rescuing an injured colleague from a tree. This keeps the four methods of doing a rescue fresh on our minds in case we ever need to perform one. Here are a few pics from the latest training day earlier this year. One climber ascends the tree and acts as a casualty who cannot descend and the other climber goes up to rescue him. Time plays an important factor, as the casualty could be suffering from head/neck/spinal injury, chainsaw cut or suspension trauma.

1. The casualty getting into position to be rescued.


2. My rescue climber!


3. To the rescue!


4. Bringing the casualty down to ground



I hope that it anyone here needs to hire an arborist that they take into account the climber's responsibilties, skills, insurance and training when thinking about their fee. yes, it may seem high, but it's for a reason.

All the best,
Matthew

 

Only if other life threatening injuries are present, such as arterial bleeding etc. If there are suspected spinal injuries the rescue climber makes the casualty as comfortable as possible and awaits the EMS.

 

Matthew
Thanks for sharing this thread.
As I am now retired from the water industry I can understand the need for all the requirements for the vast amount of H & S training a lot of use have to do simple to carry out the daily tasks.
I was the H&S champion for my team and I lost count of the number of training days I had to attend covering many subjects.
Most of them statutory requirements these days, and for very good reasons.
robert.

 

Bet my Bro wishes he had had some help like that when he was hung up after he smashed his arm when a branch he had cut swung back and pinned him to the tree:dh:

 

A good post.