Mines Rescue - Expert Training Courses - When safety is an issue

NEBOSH GENERAL CERTIFICATE

Mansfield - 12 February 2010 -

The NEBOSH course planned for 26th April 2010 - 21st May 2010 at Mansfield Rescue Station on our course calendar will be run as follows:-

26th - 30th April 2010 - week 1

17th - 21st May 2010 - week 2

Date of Examination: 9th June 2010

The course is a total of 2 full weeks, Monday to Friday each week.

INITIAL FIRST AID AT WORK

General News - 02 December 2009 - FIRST AID

Due to popular demand, the Initial First Aid at Work course to be held at our Houghton Training Centre for 3rd - 5th March 2010 is full.  We have therefore planned a further course, which will run from 1st - 3rd March 2010 at Houghton. 

First Aid Training - New Legislation

General News - 12 November 2009 - First Aid

We have in place the new First Aid at Work courses which comply with the new Health & Safety Executive guidance which became effective from 1st October 2009.

To view the courses, click on First Aid on our Home Page.

NEBOSH GENERAL CERTIFICATE

Crossgates - 12 August 2009 - NEBOSH

The NEBOSH course planned for 9th November to 11th December at our Crossgates Training Centre  on our course calendar will be run as follows:-

9th - 13th November - week 1

23rd - 27th November - week 2

Date of Examination: 11th December 2009

The course is a total of 2 full weeks, Monday to Friday each week.

Firefighters First to be Awarded New Rescue Qualifications

General News - 29 January 2009 -

Press Release

Firefighters First to be Awarded New Rescue Qualification

South Wales Firefighters are the first in the UK to be awarded brand new specialist qualifications in rescuing people from confined spaces.  24 Firefighters have undergone intensive training at Porth Mines Rescue, with an initial view to gaining a City & Guilds qualification, but they’ve exceeded expectations and have also gained the newest NVQ qualification introduced to meet industry standards.

Confined space rescue is just one aspect of a range of advanced training that 36 Firefighters, based at a brand new Technical Rescue Unit on Malpas Fire Station in Newport, will carry out over the next two months. The four day course has been designed to provide dedicated specialist training to the Firefighters, which will enable them to combine other rescue skills such as line rescue and trauma care, to ensure they can free victims trapped in confined spaces as quickly and safely as possible.  Firefighter Dave Vaughan, who has just completed the training and gained the new qualification, explained that the information and techniques he’s learned on the course have been provided to compliment and enhance the skills that all Firefighters already have; “this is probably one of the most intensive training courses I’ve attended since I joined the Fire and Rescue Service,” he said,  “the training facilities here are fantastic and the exercises that we’ve participated in are extremely realistic and designed to test our skills to the limit.  All Firefighters receive basic training in confined space rescue and we’ve all done that, but this is additional training which will allow us to support our colleagues in Fire Stations who will be the first on the scene to rescues from confined spaces when these kinds of incidents happen in their own Station areas.”

Brigadesman, Robert England, is one of the Instructors for Rhondda Valley based Dinas Mines Rescue Station near Porth. A collier at Maerdy Colliery for 10 years and a member of the Mines Rescue for 14 years, Robert also spent 18 years as a retained Firefighter at Porth Fire Station. He commented,

“not only are the Firefighters learning the theory of confined space entry and emergency rescue, which includes the appropriate paperwork they have to check before entering confined spaces, but we also concentrate on the important hands-on experience of rescue exercises, where they find out about possible risks, including dangerous gases, flooding, explosions or collapse.”

 The advanced training will mean that at least 6 Firefighters on each Watch of 12 at the new Technical Rescue Station will hold the NVQ level 2 - Safe Entry into Confined Spaces and NVQ level 3 Emergency Rescue from Confined Spaces qualifications. They will pass on their skills and experience in rescuing victims trapped in confined spaces like tunnels, sewers, vaults and storage silos, to their colleagues both on the Technical Rescue Station and at Fire Stations throughout South Wales.”

MEDIA ENQUIRIES TO SOUTH WALES FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE PRESS OFFICE