Rescue Talk™
Mission Driven, Safety Focused Content
Roco Competent Person Equipment Inspection
Does a competent person inspect your rescue equipment each year?
Rescue Toolbox: CMC PMP Swivel Pulley
By Pat Furr, Safety Officer & VPP Coordinator for Roco Rescue, Inc.
Follow Up to CS Deaths in Key Largo, FL
By Josh (JC) Hill, Roco Technical Equipment Manager & Chief Instructor
The Fit Rescuer & Why It’s Important
By Pat Furr, Roco VPP Coordinator & Chief Instructor As a Roco instructor, I see all sorts of students coming through our classes. But the one common characteristic in most every student is, “They want to do the very best for their patient or victim when the time comes for them to act!”
Roco Rescue Training in North Dakota
Roco is excited to be conducting several Rescue & Fall Protection Workshops at the 44th Annual Safety Conference next month in Bismarck, ND. This will kick off our working relationship with the ND Safety Council to provide safe, effective confined space rescue training for their membership.
Three More CS Deaths Due to Atmospheric Hazards
KEY LARGO, Fla. – Three workers in the Florida Keys died Monday morning (Jan 16) after they were overcome by fumes, authorities said. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials said they responded to reports of three people down. The victims were working at a road project.
Trench Collapse Fatalities Double in 2016
Why Knot?
By Pat Furr, Safety Officer & VPP Coordinator for Roco Rescue, Inc.
Roco QUICK DRILL #13 – Silent Drill (Know your job, do your job!)
Many rescue scenes (and teams) are plagued by confusion because of too much communication. And, if you have three people assigned to do a task, each one will have his or her own idea of how it should be done, where the system should be anchored, etc. Many times the discussion that follows eats up...
