Training Our Team

Rescue Global conducts ongoing CPD – continuous profession development for our staff, in the full spectrum of disciplines required by a multi national search and rescue organisation.

Training is conducted for each of the Rescue Global departments an functions, which are:

  • Team Leaders
  • Pathfinder Group
  • SAR – Search and Rescue Teams
  • HQ Staff – Gold and Silver Command

See the descriptions of these departments and functions for further details

The training provided to our team members is comprehensive and continuous. The following list is not an exhaustive list of all of the training which Rescue Global conducts, as we train alongside professional and official teams worldwide, and so benefit from their own training cadres as well as our own.

Training modules within the Rescue Global program include, but are not limited to:

  • Immediate First Aid
  • Pre hospital trauma care
  • Working at height – Rope rescue
  • Hazardous environment survival
  • Marine, Arctic, Jungle and Desert operations
  • USAR – Urban Search and Rescue operations
  • Breathing Apparatus Search and Rescue operations
  • Working in water – flood and fast water rescue operations
  • Casualty extraction, when trapped by injury, structure or weather
  • Search, Rescue and Casualty location in any environment, worldwide
  • Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Leadership and Incident Command in crisis situations
  • Security, asset and team protection techniques for working in hazardous environments including conflict zones
  • Security related skills training including defensive driving, unarmed defense, threat and risk assessment, kidnap survival

Specialist training for the following departments includes:

Team Leaders

  • Communication skills
  • Leadership
  • Planning and command
  • Advanced Operational Tactics
  • Briefing and de briefing

Pathfinder Group

  • Satellite communications
  • Power set up, generators
  • Water filtration
  • Camp set up and support
  • Survival skills, all regions
  • Helicopter operations
  • Maritime operations
  • Vehicle maintenance
  • Deployment by sea, including light craft and kayak
  • Deployment by air, including helicopter and parachute
  • Deployment by land, including long range walk in
  • Navigation skills, manual and GPS

SAR – Search and Rescue Teams

  • Immediate First Aid
  • Working at height – Rope rescue
  • Hazardous environment survival
  • Breathing Apparatus Search and Rescue operations
  • Working in water – flood and fast water rescue operations
  • Casualty extraction, when trapped by injury, structure or weather
  • Search, Rescue and Casualty location in any environment, worldwide

HQ Staff – Gold and Silver Command

  • Communication skills
  • Leadership
  • Planning and command
  • Advanced Operational Tactics
  • Briefing and de briefing
  • Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Leadership and Incident Command in crisis situations
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