Roco Competent Person Equipment Inspection
Does a competent person inspect your rescue equipment each year?
Does a competent person inspect your rescue equipment each year?
By Pat Furr, Safety Officer & VPP Coordinator for Roco Rescue, Inc.
By Josh (JC) Hill, Roco Technical Equipment Manager & Chief Instructor
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 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.
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.
By Pat Furr, Safety Officer & VPP Coordinator for Roco Rescue, Inc.
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...
By Pat Furr, Safety Officer & VPP Coordinator for Roco Rescue, Inc.