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What are the benefits of a Contract Seminar?

• A seminar on contract is usually a cost-effective option when organizations have six to ten individuals interested in attending the seminar.
• A contract seminar reduces the overall per person fee substantially, because of the reduction in participant’s travel and lodging expenses. Many groups also extend an invitation to other mutual aid agencies and organizations to help fill the seminar and share the overall costs. A contract seminar enables us to cater the program to your specific needs and areas of interest.

No two seminars are exactly alike since every rescue team is at a different level of skill and knowledge. Additionally, differences in mission profile contribute to team preferences for device selection, rope choice, and edge transition methods, just to name a few. Participants can look forward to interactive seminar topics and techniques, which commonly include:

• An evaluation of several raising and lowering systems including dual tension, single tension, and hybrid approaches
• Devices utilized in raising and lowering systems
• Edge transition techniques
• Command and control for team-based technical rescue
• Principles of simple, compound and complex pulley systems
• Various stretcher-handling attendant techniques
• Anchoring methods for optimizing anchor point load distribution
• And much more!

We highly encourage you to advise us in advance of any particular techniques or topics you would want to see included in the seminar content.

Seminar Length:

• Seminars are five full days in length, running from 8:00 in the morning until about 17:00 in the afternoon. Alternatively, three to four day workshops are also available for teams seeking to refresh their skills. 
• We are flexible with regard to the duration, schedule, and content of each seminar in order to most appropriately meet your goals and objectives. 

Training Location Requirements:

• The primary cliffs for instruction need not be high (7 to 20 meters), but they should be relatively devoid of rock fall hazard, of an average 70 to 80 degrees, and with ample room at the top and bottom.
• Additionally, travel time from classroom to crag should not exceed 40 minutes, ideally.
• If Rigging for Rescue is visiting your location for the first time, we will plan to arrive a day ahead of time to review with your designated point-of-contact the field site locations to be used, the team gear cache, and any other requirements for the week’s activities (e.g. permits, parking, etc).

Classroom Space:

The facilities need to include a meeting room, with tables and chairs that are available for use anytime during the training event. Important classroom items include:

• An LCD projector and screen or HDMI TV
• A dry erase whiteboard with various colored markers

Rigging for Rescue’s seminar curriculum includes skills outlined in NFPA 1006-2021 edition, Operations Level for Rope Rescue.  Additionally, the seminar content meets and exceeds the ASTM F2954 – Standard Guide for Training for Intermediate Rope Rescuer Endorsement. Organizations with strong technical rescue backgrounds can expect the curriculum to meet NFPA 1006-2021, Technician Level skills as well as ASTM F2955 – Advanced Rope Rescuer Endorsement.

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