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Permalink Reply by Stephan Charest on March 25, 2009 at 8:40pm

Hi Greg, I had to use the same path awhile ago to keep the training interseting... Because we only have 1 car per crew every 6 month, i had to find a way to use the props at its maximum... And we took the opportunity to test few things that we red in magazine but never had the chance to test... And truck positionning...

So start the training with all type of cribbing with different scenario, car on top, side, in a ditchon an other car you see where i am going... For each set up we will use different cribbing technic, so on MVA scene if plan A it the fan plan B,C,D... will be used....

When you are satisfied with Cribbing, you cab develop on how to cut the car, again different technic with different tools, car on its roof, something that you never had in your area but that could happen... Different way to brake the glass, i.e. use map tac, so once you breack it stays in one piece, you can safely manipulate it... Different way to gain access to casualties...

You can start with lectures, to refresh everybody memories, look into your S.O.G. you can also look for pass accident report.... And after the entire training that can be covered in months, you can come back with the guys, maybe the S.O.G.s have to be refreshed...

That was only for car, of course that can be used for light/heavy truck, bus or Hybrid... Hope you have a safe interesting training.

Stephan Charest

Permalink Reply by paul michael komandt on June 13, 2009 at 6:56pm

We recently bought a rescue dummie. We place the dummie as a passenger then smash up the vehicle pretty good and do the rescue and extrication in real time then go back and pick apart the evolution.

Permalink Reply by lutan1 on June 30, 2009 at 6:45pm

Greg check out the Vehicle Extrication group on this website- there's a load of really well versed and trained extrication practitioners there- they'll be able to give you some guidance...

Permalink Reply by craig b. adams on July 24, 2009 at 12:26am

Here's something to try, Make a competition out of it. Divide your personnel up into teams, each team is given a vehicle and all teams are given the same task to complete, door removal,top removal, steering column pull, seat and pedal removal, etc. The team that completes in the quickest time wins. Have a couple of safety overseer'sand each team is penalized 5 seconds for each safety violation or procedural error, this helps to eliminate the member's who just rush through it to win. If possible have a prize for the winning team member's, 12- pack of their favorite pop or maybe a gift cert. to a local eatery or pizza place maybe. It's getting harder and harder to keep them interested in attending training, just try being a little creative, everybody loves a little competition.
Good Luck,
Craig B. Adams