Roco’s Rescue Technician certification is a great way to get your team members to the same performance level and provide peace of mind that your team is functioning to its best and safest.

Based on the skill requirements (or JPR’s) of NFPA 1006, Roco’s Rescue Technician certification program is designed to evaluate and document your team members’ individual rescue skills. This documentation to a national consensus, such as NFPA, can be invaluable to your emergency response program in that it establishes a baseline of required skills, capabilities and performance standards. It also provides an excellent hands-on evaluation by an independent third party that the individual proficiency requirements of OSHA 1910.146 (PRCS) have been achieved.

Roco skills testing covers rescue knots, load sharing anchor rigging, belay systems, patient packaging, mechanical advantage and more. Students are given two opportunities to test on the individual skills with a passing score. Roco’s standardized testing program is comparable (or exceeds) most Proboard and IFSAC testing.

At the end of class, students earn their Rescue Technician certification by demonstrating practical skills and passing a written exam. Students who pass receive a certificate that is valid for two years.

Make sure your team members are proficient in their skills, evaluated consistently and can perform under pressure. Because of the intensity of this evaluation process, our certification classes are more rigorous and tend to graduate more skilled rescuers.