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Cleaning and Disinfecting your Rescue and Climbing Equipment Via Sterling Rope

Lance Piatt / Blog, Equipment, Sterling / 3 Comments

We put together the following recommendations to help answer some of your questions about your ropes and equipment regarding the novel Corona virus, COVID-19 and other contaminates. Sterling has conducted testing on two disinfectant cleaners and have identified that these two cleaners, when applied properly, do not significantly degrade nylon or polyester ropes. It is […]

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RLA’s 3 Tips For Better Online Learning ~ Experience and Behavior

Lance Piatt / Blog, Organizing, Principles of Learning, Professional Standards, Team Competencies / 134 Comments

There are thousands upon thousands of riggers within the fire service and other emergency services such as Sheriff’s Search and Rescue and all of them at one point or some point will need or have already turned to online training. Regardless of what has transpired over the last 6 months, online training has been increasing

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Dual Capability Two Tensioned Rope Systems (DC TTRS1 ) Technical Rope Rescue Systems Overhaul

Kirk Mauthner / Blog, Two (Twin) Tension Rope Systems / 119 Comments

So as most of our community knows… we incredibly excited about the Two (Twin) Tension Rope System. Technically, it isn’t new, but newer. The system, like most paradigm shifts, need some time to acclimate. Not the system mind you… the teams, individuals and thus expectations, goals and SOPs. Rather than try to create “new” information

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Leading From Knowledge and Perception

Lance Piatt / Blog, Designing Your Processes, Leadership / 4 Comments

Ice Breaker: The goal of “thinking beyond our thoughts” or metacognitive strategies is to help us become comfortable with developing strategy. Why is this so vitally important to us as humans, riggers, and rescuers? We as people, especially in today’s world, tend to take the easy way out and “believe” what we are told and this

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Basic Litter Handling: Class 1-2 Litter Handling and Terrain Assessment

Lance Piatt / Blog, Litter Operations / 147 Comments

A Shout-Out to Peak Rescue Institute for their amazing commitment to Excellence and Service. To be effective, rescue personnel must be able to move over steep and difficult terrain with confidence and without incurring unacceptable risk. Use the best available hand and footholds. Search for holds deliberately and thoughtfully. Generally, footholds are preferable to handholds;

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Technical Rescue: The Importance of 15:1

Russell McCullar / Blog, Confined Space Rescue, General Rigging, Mainline Systems and Operations, Mechanical Advantage, Principles of Learning, Professional Standards, Pulleys & Mechanical Advantage, Safe Practices, Team Competencies, Two (Twin) Tension Rope Systems, Two Rope Offsets, Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems / 9 Comments

(This article was originally run in Firehouse October 1, 2019) Russell McCullar clarifies whether 15:1 is still relevant and says that fire departments should select gear and load limits that meet their needs. All Photos by Russell McCullar Not long ago, I was explaining to one of my students that our training agency was undergoing

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Getting To Know Project Director and Partner Craig McClure of The Crackerjack Group

Lance Piatt / Blog / 3 Comments

I’ve known Craig for many years now and felt super comfortable in having him lead our workshops over the last six months. During this time, we pooled some ideas together and wondered what a mega-course might look like. Knowing the work and resources it took to finish and produce our amazingly successful 5 Day Advance

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Get To Know Ronin Safety & Rescue

Lance Piatt / Blog, Confined Space Rescue / 24 Comments

With the new launch of Confined Space Rescue: Awareness, Operations and Technician, we felt it important to get some introduction going. Below is a little bio of Team Ronin. However, check out the recent series of four interviews with Mark Pfeifer, CEO and Co-Founder of Ronin Rescue. Ronin’s philosophy is “our client’s concerns are our

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Passing Knots Introduction: A Rope Rescue and Rigging Primer You Must Know – Using The MPD

Lance Piatt / Blog, Passing Knots / 29 Comments

I will admit, back in the day, the scariest thing for me to learn and then show people, was how to pass knots on either raise or lower. I would downplay the whole process in an effort to “deny myself the opportunity to learn something super cool” because I just didn’t get the practical steps.

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Harken Industrial Part 3: Marine to Industrial Rigging and Rope Access… Who is Elevated Safety?

Lance Piatt / Blog, Elevated Safety, Harken Industrial, Rope Access and Working At Height / 25 Comments

Mid way through the 2018 season, there was a shift in the industrial rigging arena. I saw this coming years ago, but quite wasn’t sure as to how the blending of Harken into the rope access and rescue space would happen; this was 2010. It was to come through the open-door of Elevated Safety. Now

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