Description

Tower Safety Competent Climber and Rescue Training

The Tower Safety Competent Climber and Rescue course teaches the cell tower worker about various fall protection rescue equipment and how to properly set up tower rigging, cell tower patient rescue, mechanical advantages, and self-rescue, along with proper emergency care and risks.

A Competent Climber and Rescuer will be trained in fall protection according to ANSI Z35, Z490,10.48 standards, and OSHA 1926 regulations and best practices. Students will know how to perform tower-based rescues and rescue training as they apply to the daily JSA’s or Tailgate meetings and fall protection according to OSHA, TIA, and ANSI guidelines.

Product Video

Product Features:

• Focused on fall protection theory and proper techniques, for those in the tower industry.
• 5 methods of the fall protection hierarchy.
• Introduce the proper equipment and the correct methods that should be used to protect climbers from the fall hazards that may be encountered when in a tower scenario.

Course Includes:

Competent Climber Cell Tower Rigging- Rope Education

• Ropes: types, strength ratings, inspections, and documentation
• Knots & Hitches: Bowline, Clove, Prusik, Family of “8’s”, Munter Hitch, Clove Hitch

Advanced Rescue Systems for Competent Climber and Rescuer Cell Tower Workers:

• Industrial descent devices – use, standards and regulations, inspections, ratings
• Pulleys: types, applications, use

Raising and Hauling Systems for Rescue & Rigging Angles:

• Mechanical advantage – explanation, application, formulas, and simple vs. compound systems
• Anchors: ratings, requirements, use, load sharing, and vector forces
• Cross hauls and lowering systems
• Load equalization
• Rigging Scenarios on various cell towers, monopole, self-supporting, rope rescue