Who is this course for?
The Safe Working in Water (SWIW) course is designed for people tasked with working in water who will need a self- and co-worker rescue capability using conditional rescue techniques, eg throwbags, wading techniques and reach poles. The target audience is EA, SEPA, NRW personnel, construction industry workers, road and bridge maintenance workers.
This course offers a higher level rescue capability than the Safe Working Near Water (SWNW) course.
What is covered in the course?
- About 40 North's Certification
- Workplace legislation
- Safe systems of work
- Risk assessments
- Pre-planning for emergencies and rescue
- Hydrology and water hazards
- Cold water considerations
- Mud, ice and coastal considerations
- Biosecurity and environmental considerations
- Medical and decontamination considerations
- Lifejackets vs. buoyancy aids
- Buoyancy aid and lifejacket maintenance, periodic inspection and transportation
- Lifejacket firing mechanisms
- Lifejacket accidental inflation risks
- Personal and team equipment
- Considerations for night/poor visibility working
- Communications
- Pre- and post-use lifejacket checks
- Lifejacket inflation and deflation – auto/manual
- Swimming and self-rescue in lifejackets
- Swimming and self-rescue in buoyancy aids
- Throwbags and other conditional rescues
- Shallow water techniques
- Tethered shallow water techniques
- Strainers
- People and equipment entrapments
How long is the course?
The course is delivered over 2 consecutive days (12 hours contact time)
Safe Working in Water
£400.00Price
We are based at the following address:
N19A Tursdale Buisness Park
Tursdale
Durham
DH6 5PG
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