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.

SAR TECH Team Training

SAR TECH or Search and Rescue Technician are personnel highly trained in medical, extrication, and other technical rescue SAR techniques. Mostly involved in Air, Marine / Water and Technical Rescue SAR, they are usually the first person the Technical SAR mission, that the search subject sees.  By definition they need to be the most skilled, experienced and fit of the team.  Their additional training, like HEAT Team, requires specialist courses too.

 

FITNESS

SAR Tech / Scout Reconnaissance

As International below

Standard + Bonus PLUS:

4 mile walk in hilly terrain with 25lb kit

+ Complete the walk by running the end

+ 100 metre run at the end.

 

PLUS:

  1. Bench press at least ½ your weight +

  2. 6 chin ups+ 10 press ups

  3. + 1.5 mile run in under 15 minutes

  4. Sprint 100 metres

  5. Body drag 150lb 100 mtrs or the car push exercise.

  6. 400 metre swim in clothes + life jacket  / 600 meter swim

  7. 15 meters underwater without breaking the surface

(Will accept RLSS Bronze Medallion on par)

 
Items 1 to 5 completed in sequence without rest between.


Flexibility: Toe Touch and Wall Angel

 

Technical Rescue Disciplines - NFPA 1670

Technical Rescue: “The application of special knowledge, skills and equipment to safely resolve unique and / or complex rescue situations.”

  • High / Low Angle, Below Grade & Rope

  • Structural Collapse

  • Confined Space

  • Wilderness

  • Water             (Swift (& Flat) / Surf / Dive / Ice /

  • Vehicle and Machinery

  • Trench

  • Medical

 

UKSAR SAR TECHs (Search and Rescue Technicians) are the highest grade of operational member and are required to complete a fitness evaluation (similar to that of the Scout Recon) and be competent in a minimum of 2 or more disciplines with experience in the field.  One of those should be medical.  There are 3 grades of SAR TECH and ordered I, II and III, in order of seniority.

Medical care shall be provided for victims of rescue operations and shall be at a minimum, at the Basic Life Support (BLS) level.  BLS is the minimum level of medical care required; although advanced life support (ALS) is recommended.  Additionally the PHTLS (Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support Course) recognised by the Royal College of Surgeons and the NAEMT (USA) is also a useful and pertinent certification.
 

In addition to BLS training, other medical training should include

a)    Cervical / Spinal Immobilization

b)    Crush Injury Syndrome

c)     Amputation

d)    Infection Control

e)    Critical Incident Stress

&   Suspension Trauma

 

SAR Tech Grade 1          

Completed Fitness & Training & minimum requirements

SAR Tech Grade 2          

Has been a working SAR Tech 1 Team for about 1 year & field tested

SAR Tech Grade 3          

Experienced SAR Tech and able to run a completed rescue 3 disciplines+