Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan for aerial rescue
- Undertake a site-specific risk assessment by identifying work health and safety hazards and assessing risk
- Confirm emergency communication system is working
- Confirm emergency services contact numbers are documented
- Select, prepare and check first aid equipment and rescue kit
- Position rescue and first aid equipment for easy access
- Clarify own role in rescue situations
- Confirm first aid, rescue personnel, equipment and rescue plan procedures with work team prior to undertaking work
- Select and use personal protective equipment
- Communicate with work team during operations using voice, hand and whistle signals
- Assess and respond to an aerial emergency situation
- Attempt communication with casualty
- Activate emergency plan and request assistance from work team and public in accordance with rescue plan
- Identify hazards associated with rescue, assess risks and implement suitable controls
- Determine presence of live electrical wires or apparatus that will interfere with ability to access casualty and take appropriate action
- Apply ‘Safe Approach Distance’ measures to live electrical situations
- Use appropriate access equipment to carry out rescue in accordance with rescue plan
- Maintain communication with casualty
- Assess nature of injury
- Secure rescuer safely
- Secure casualty
- Assess injuries to determine whether or not to move casualty based on first aid procedures and risk assessment
- Apply first aid that can be performed above ground, as required
- Support, but do not move, a casualty with possible neck or spinal injuries and await expert medical treatment
- Maintain communications with ground crew
- Lower casualty to ground
- Complete rescue operations
- Apply first aid on ground as needed
- Obtain emergency assistance as required
- Isolate equipment involved in accident for potential investigation and prevent reuse until checked
- Remove all equipment in a controlled manner
- Clean and store equipment
- Clean and store personal protective equipment
- Maintain records of aerial rescue in appropriate format