ERT SAR (Emergency Response Team) is a domestic UK and International RESILIENCE, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & DISASTER MANAGEMENT Search and Rescue Organization. It is also an NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL UMBRELLA Membership Body.

Operational Training Course OTC (New – 070410)

 

DURATION: 5 days Or 1 Weekend /

2 and a half days Intensive Practicals (plus 1 week pre-study - usually Fri, Sat & Sunday)

Candidates need to receive full joining instructions a at least 14 days before hand.

ERT SAR: You will be given 2 manuals for the course to work from.

FITNESS TEST

NB: Those who wish to have the fitness endorsement on their certificate - please be away we may also run this test during the course.  It is 2 miles flat and roadway and 3.1 miles on hilly varied terrain - including grass and mud.  You will have 2 hours to complete in full belt kit (but not necessarily wearing grab bags but should be able to.) Most candidates will come in around an hour to an hour and a half.  If this is a problem it will not necessarily preclude you from completing the course but you will not get the fitness passed - endorsement.


Course Content:

  • Introduction Search & Rescue and Purpose of ERT SAR
  • Search and Rescue Disciplines
  • Priorities and Responsibilities in Search and Rescue
  • Intro to Emergency management
  • Preparedness & Mitigation
  • Response & Recovery
  • 3 Types of Disaster
  • The Law & legal aspects
  • Civil Contingencies Act (CCA 2004) 
  • Emergency Planning (EP)     
  • Disaster Management (DM)           
  • Types of call out
  • Call Out Cascade
  • C2 – IEM (Integrated Emergency Management)
  • JESCC (Joint Emergency Services Control Centre).
  • INSARAG / FEMA / UN / DfID (UK)
  • Team Roles & Duties
  • Team Safety and Leadership
  • Chain of Command
  • Ranks and Promotions
  • SOPs / Standard Operating Procedures & Expected Standards
  • SAR Uniform & Clothing Considerations (4 Ws)
  • ERT SAR Uniforms, Uniform standards, wearing of ~ and boots
  • ERT SAR Equipment and What to pack in your ‘Grab Bags’
  • ERT SAR “Inverse Pyramid” Packing SOPs
  • The 4 ‘Rs’ of equipment use
  • SAR Vehicles & Helicopters
  • Rules and SOPs working with Helicopters
  • Intro to Radio Operations & Codes  
  • Notebooks, Statements and Reporting
  • STOP (Stay Think Observe Plan)
  • Navigation skills: Map & Compass module
  • Basic Field Survival Skills     
  • Intro to Missing Persons Profile
  • Critical Separation Distance and Searchers Cube
  • Passive & Active Search Techniques and Patterns                   
  • Water, Floods & Waterways module  
  • Intro to Ropes & Knots Module
  • 2 types of rope & 5 most important knots  
  • Medical Considerations for Team Members & Public
  • Briefing & De-Briefing
  • ICS (Incident Command System)

 

Appendix

    • Several Exercises
    • Fire Safety
    • Light Urban SAR
    • Waterways
    • Manual Handling & Kinetic Lifting
    • Children & Families
    • Forms & Paperwork
    • Home Kits, Car Kits, Family Kits, Work Kits, School Kits and Community Kits

 

Additional Medical:

SAR Based medical training modules


ERT SAR Members will require Medical Training (provided inhouse or taken on equivalency) to become full members.

Also - ERT SAR members are required to pass the uniform and equipment components of the course including boots, dress, belt kit, deportment and  standard equipment.

 

Test: Written & Practical Evaluation (Pass mark 75%)

Probation: 1 year

Experience: 10 Call Outs / Events / Duties



NB: Visitors / Observers / Candidates completing this course from other teams may be exempted from certain ERT Standards or may opt-in to received those components.