Construction accidents

Underground and aboveground building accidents are somewhat rare, but are among the most dangerous deployments. The fire service areas of deployment are chiefly trenches, embankments and supporting walls. Our Firefighting courses prepare you for these kinds of deployment situations too. Our aim is to provide clarification about the hazards and provide the requisite fundamental knowledge to be able to organise a rescue in extreme situations, speedily and without any danger to your crew. Deployments for aboveground and underground accidents are crew-intensive, equipment-intensive and time-intensive. Complicated by the fact that such deployments are not able to be practised by the majority of fire services.

Theory:

• Determining possible causes
• Risk analysis
• Procedure under time pressure
• Process for a trench collapse

Practical drills

• Classifying the ground (stability)
• Use of simple tools
• Preparing equipment at the incident scene
• Protection systems for the ground
• Mechanical lifting machines
• Pneumatic lifting machines
• Freeing the accident victim from a construction pit