Course Content

• SAR- What is it and how do you fit in
• Getting involved in SAR
• Incident management and organizational structure
• Fitness
• Survival and body management
• Clothing
• Emergency survival skills
• Problems associated with specific SAR environments
• Survival first aid considerations
• SAR ready pack, preparedness kits
• Personal outdoor equipment
• Travel skills: Foot travel for the SAR worker
• Navigation
• Communications
• SAR resources
• Psychological and stress problems in SAR
• Search
• Handling evidence
• Clue consciousness
• Anatomy of a SAR incident
• Lost person behavior
• Search probability theory
• Tracking
• Rescue gear
• Rope related skills
• Evacuation
• Hand and power tools for rescue
• Air operations observer
• Helicopters in SAR
• Handling external influences
• Legalities: Issues and trends
• Preventive SAR education

Length

6 Days (over 3 Weekends)

(Price is for presentation to a group - not for each individual in the group)

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