Set the minimum documentation for suspended worker rescue that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.
Building Rapid Rescue Plans for Workers Suspended at Height
Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to suspended worker rescue.
📍 Istanbul🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Regulators judge suspended worker rescue on evidence of application, not on the existence of a document. A procedure for the practice within occupational health and safety that people cannot follow under time pressure is not a control. Practitioner evidence points the same way: the wider occupational health and safety agenda improves fastest where responsibility for it is named and owned. Participants who influence suspended worker rescue without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a safety procedure for the occupational health and safety discipline as they go. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of this part of occupational health and safety to standardise and which to leave flexible. Improvement in suspended worker rescue stalls when it depends on one capable individual rather than a defined method. The programme converts this strand of occupational health and safety from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to this part of occupational health and safety that would make a visible difference.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Carry out a structured risk assessment of suspended worker rescue and rank findings by consequence.
Select and verify the protective equipment required for suspended worker rescue.
Build competence and authorisation requirements for anyone working on suspended worker rescue.
Verify that contractors performing suspended worker rescue meet the same standard as direct employees.
Establish what evidence would demonstrate that suspended worker rescue is under control.
Build a register of the risks attaching to suspended worker rescue and keep it current.
Who Should Attend
Team leaders and supervisors who put suspended worker rescue into practice day to day.
Experienced practitioners formalising an approach to suspended worker rescue that has grown up informally.
Facility and plant managers accountable for suspended worker rescue.
Contractor and subcontractor supervisors performing suspended worker rescue.
Training officers building competence in suspended worker rescue.
Health and safety officers and advisers responsible for suspended worker rescue.
Course Modules
Suspended worker rescue: hazard identification and risk assessment
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Assessing the hazards in suspended worker rescue without turning it into paperwork
- Assess long-term health exposure created by suspended worker rescue and arrange surveillance.
- Confirm that those complying with suspended worker rescue understand why it exists.
- Check the procedure for suspended worker rescue against how the work is actually done.
- Reduce the variation in how suspended worker rescue is carried out between teams.
Session 2Writing a procedure for suspended worker rescue people can follow at 3 a.m.
- Investigate the last incident involving suspended worker rescue to root cause, not to immediate cause.
- Name a single owner for each element of suspended worker rescue.
- Agree the smallest change to suspended worker rescue that would be visibly useful.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on suspended worker rescue.
Suspended worker rescue: protective equipment and its verification
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The exposure from suspended worker rescue that shows up years later
- Estimate the resource suspended worker rescue requires to run as designed.
- Confirm isolation and lockout arrangements for suspended worker rescue are proven before work starts.
- Close out actions on suspended worker rescue rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Map the handovers in suspended worker rescue between functions and secure them.
Session 2Investigating an incident involving suspended worker rescue without hunting for blame
- Identify where judgement in suspended worker rescue is legitimate and where it is not.
- Make the reporting route for hazards in suspended worker rescue short and non-punitive.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to suspended worker rescue.
- Audit application of suspended worker rescue controls at the workface.
Suspended worker rescue: competence, authorisation and supervision
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building the method for suspended worker rescue step by step
- Compare the cost of suspended worker rescue with the cost of its absence.
- Confirm the training cycle sustaining competence in suspended worker rescue is current.
- Anticipate the objections suspended worker rescue will raise and prepare the answers.
- Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for suspended worker rescue, do not just publish it.
Session 2What to measure in suspended worker rescue and what to ignore
- Test that protective equipment specified for suspended worker rescue fits and is maintained.
- Ask the people doing suspended worker rescue what makes the procedure hard to follow.
- Check that lessons from suspended worker rescue reached other sites doing similar work.
- Set leading indicators for suspended worker rescue that predict rather than count.
Suspended worker rescue: leading indicators, audit and assurance
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Where suspended worker rescue typically breaks, and why
- Record what was learned when suspended worker rescue did not go as planned.
- Verify permits covering suspended worker rescue are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
- Identify single points of dependency in suspended worker rescue and reduce them.
- Agree what will be standardised in suspended worker rescue and what will not.
Session 2Rescue arrangements for suspended worker rescue that have been rehearsed
- Establish what evidence demonstrates suspended worker rescue is under control.
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for suspended worker rescue.
- Prepare the evidence pack a regulator would ask for on suspended worker rescue.
- Close out corrective actions on suspended worker rescue with a named owner and date.
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- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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- Workshop or Program Participation
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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