IDLH (Immediate Danger to Life and Health) Rescue


How Long Can YOU Hold YOUR Breath?
By OSHA standards a stand by confined space rescue team must reach the space and be ready to operate in four to five minutes, but five minutes can seem like an eternity when you're waiting to be rescued.

confined space rescue ready in sixty secondsSTARS Confined Space Rescue Teams are in the space in
SIXTY SECONDS OR LESS!
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Lots to Consider

Other elements required to establish an on–site rescue team is proper equipment and a fully developed incident command structure. Included in STARS’s Rescue policies are detailed incident command organization charts.

Some other considerations when developing a team include:

  • IDLH potential — If your permit–entry includes the possibility of an IDLH atmosphere developing should ventilation fail, you need a rescue team standing by at the permit space during entry.
  • Travel time — Consider how quickly the selected rescue service can get from its location to yours. Factors include road conditions, traffic, vehicle reliability and drivers’ training and skill level.
  • Availability — Will the service actually be available when you need them? Do they at certain times have only limited hours? How will they notify you if the service becomes unavailable when an entry is planned?
  • Fatalness — Cause or capable of causing death or dire misfortune. Fatal may refer to the future or past; in either case, it emphasizes inevitability or inescapable consequences.

Planning for confined space entry starts long before the first entrant breaks the opening plane. Rescue planning must begin even before the testing and space preparation in order to have a team ready to pull out a victim in the required number of minutes.

STARS Rescue Team members are people who:

  • Handle stressful situations
  • Work well in alien environments
  • Control the situation
  • Are team players
  • Prevent incidents and accidents
  • Participate in project needs
  • Provide training
  • Are well trained and experienced
  • Constantly sharpening their skills
  • Cross trained in safety rescue and regulator compliance
  • Board Certified
  • State Certified
  • Nationally Certified
  • Federally Certified


 

 

 

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