August 25-27, 2025, Trench Rescue Operations, Howell

Description

This 30-hour program meets and exceeds the knowledge, skills and abilities requirement of the NFPA 1006 standard.

Course Content:

Awareness Level:

Recognize the need for trench and excavation rescue

Identify the resources necessary to conduct safe and effective trench and excavation emergency operations

Initiate the emergency response system for trenches and excavations

Initiating site control and scene management

Recognize general hazards associated with trench and excavation emergency incidents and the procedures necessary to mitigate these hazards within the general rescue area and recognizing the unique hazards associated with the weight of soil and its associated entrapping characteristics

Recognize typical trench and excavation collapse patterns, the reasons trenches and excavations collapse, and the potential for secondary collapse

Initiate a rapid, non-entry extrication of non-injured or minimally injured victim(s)

Operations Level:

Conduct a size-up of a collapsed trench

Implement a trench emergency action plan

Implement support operations at trench emergencies

Support a non-intersecting straight wall trench of 8 ft or less

Release a victim from soil entrapment by components of a nonintersecting collapsed trench of 2.4 m (8 ft) or less in depth

Remove a victim from a trench

Disassemble support systems (sheeting/shoring) at a trench emergency incident

For more information, or to schedule a trench rescue program for your department, please contact: Chad Godfrey at [email protected].