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What are the benefits of a Contract Seminar?

• A contract seminar reduces the cost per person, 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.

Every seminar is unique 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 etc. Seminars are highly interactive and typically include:

• 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
• Simple, compound and complex pulley systems
• Various stretcher-handling techniques
• Anchoring methods for optimizing anchor point load distribution
• And more!

We can fully customize the training curriculum to meet the needs of your team’s mission profile.

Seminar Length:

• Seminars are typically five days. Alternatively, three or four day workshops are also available for teams seeking to refresh their skills. 

Training Location Requirements:

• The primary cliffs for instruction to not need to be tall, but they should be relatively devoid of rock fall hazard.
• Additionally, travel time from classroom to crag should not exceed 40 minutes.
• 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).

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.