Water & Flood Awareness

A classroom based course designed to provide personnel who may be working near water with sufficient knowledge to be aware of the hazards created by this environment and develop an understanding of water rescue techniques.

Course content

This one day course includes:
- Water rescue standards
- Rescuer safety
- Water and flood dynamics and hazards
- Flood theory
- Personal and team equipment
- On-scene safety briefing and site control
- Pre-planning and incident management
- Drowning, medical and personal welfare considerations
- Mud, ice and unstable surface considerations
- Communications

Course pre-requisites

None

Rescue 3 (UK) runs these courses subject to demand, please contact Rescue 3 (UK) for more details.