This is a 16-hour technical-level rescue training in performing safe extrications in/on agricultural grain bins. This program is intended to give students the information and skills needed to respond to and effectively perform grain bin entrapment extrication at the operations/technician level. It will review the dangers associated with the farm environment, working in grain, and rescue incidents. Heavy emphasis is placed on safety, incident management, safe and proper rigging, and aerial operations. The program includes multiple full rescue evolutions in actual grain bins.
Course Goal
This program is intended to give students the information and skills needed to respond to and effectively perform grain bin entrapment extrication at the operations/technician level. It will review the dangers associated with the farm environment, working in grain, and rescue incidents. It includes proper rigging, aerial operations, and actual practical evolutions in real grain bins.
Course Objectives
1. Understand how and why people enter bins and become entrapped/engulfed.
2. Explain how bins are constructed and their structural integrity.
3. Experience walking in grain inside a grain bin.
4. Identify challenges to emergency responders on proper management of a grain bin incident.
5. Recite the proper steps to follow for a successful grain bin rescue.
6. Identify challenges to emergency responders on proper management of a grain bin incident.
7. Review confined space permitting, lock-out/tag-out procedures, and air monitoring practices.
8. Build and use coffer dams or specialty grain rescue devices.
9. Build and operate rope rigging systems for safe extrication, including lead climbing, and constructing belay systems.
10. Review proper use of patient packaging systems for grain bin rescue scenarios.
11. Properly rig a given aerial device for high anchor point and change of direction operations.
12. Successfully complete scenario-based practical evolutions in grain bin rescues.
Minimum Age
The minimum age for this program is 18 years old on/before the first day of class.
In addition, this course is physically intensive, and students should be in good physical condition and capable of fully participating in the training.
(Note: the Grain Bin Rescue Awareness program is NOT required for this class as those materials are covered in this tech-level program.)