PUASAR024 Undertake road crash rescue
This unit covers the competency required to gain access to and extricate entrapped casualty/s from vehicles travelling on the road such as cars, motorcycles, buses, trucks and semi-trailers while minimising the potential for further injury and preserving the integrity of evidence.
Course Content
The course covers the following;
- Introduction
- Required skills and knowledge
- Learning guide range statement
- Rescue extrication
- Hazard zone
- Prioritising patients
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Equipment at Road Traffic Collisions
- Personal safety
- Rescue equipment
- Common hydraulic rescue tools
- Tool set up and handling
- Hydraulic rams
- Lifting and pulling equipment
- Power tools
- Chainsaw
- Equipment care
- Pumps
- Teamwork
- Team approach
- Golden hour
- Vehicle collision kinetics
- Standard Operating Procedures
- Size up
- Response process
- Power lines and power supplies
- Vehicle on fire
- Arrival at incident
- Vehicle terminology
- New car technology
- Side impact airbags
- Scene safety
- Impact energy absorption structure
- Unibody
- Compartments
- Electric car
- Dual fuel vehicles
- Safety features
- Bus incidents
- Case studies
- Bus facts
- Fire service actions
- Key risk factors
- Bus fires in tunnels
- Heavy vehicles
- Construction
- Causes of accidents
- Zone boundaries
- Source of ignition
- Scene size up
Duration
6.5 Hours