Rope Rescue Technician (RRT)

Upon successful completion of the course...

...you will receive a Rescue 3 Europe certificate of qualification. This certificate is valid for three years.

The Rope Rescue Technician course builds upon the techniques taught at RRO, and enables Technicians to work in more complex environments, using more advanced rope rescue techniques.

Techniques taught include the use of artificial frames, edge transitions, offsets and non-reeving highlines. This will give a Rope Rescue Technicians a greater range of rescue solutions.

Course Duration - 5 days

Classroom and Practical

Prerequisite: Minimum age 18

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Course content includes:

• Prerequisite knowledge from the 
• Prerequisite skills from the 
• Anchor systems (Technician level)
• Mechanical advantage (Technician level)
• Passing obstructions whilst ascending/descending
• Narrow and wide rope transfers/changeovers
• Individual pick-off
• Artificial frames – easel leg tripods
• Casualty care and packaging for horizontal and vertical transport
• Horizontal edge transitions with an artificial high directional
• Vertical edge transitions without a high directional
• Switching stretcher orientation
• Tracking line offsets (and guiding line offsets)
• Skateblock offsets
• Passing knots through a system whilst raising and lowering
• Non-reeving highlines