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What is CE All About and Really… What Does It Have To Do With Rescue and Rigging?

Lance Piatt / Blog, Rope Access and Working At Height, Safe Practices

What is CE anyway? Is it an abbreviation of the French phrase “Conformité Européene” which literally means “European Conformity” as in our climbing gear? Does CE mean “Common Era”?.. As in the Year AD 1 (Anno Domini)? Oh wait!!!! How about CE as “continued education”? This might really sound lame, but if you are getting my point […]

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Transformation, Opportunity and Learning Styles

Lance Piatt / Blog, Organizing, Personal Competencies

So in the last blog, I talked a bit about the challenging aspect of how best to train. We all know that plans are great, but if not followed, they’re pretty much worthless. However, a plan or roadmap that is spelled out, tracked and implemented… is a pathway to success. I want to reveal a

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Building Blocks of Technical Rescue- 4 Step Process

Lance Piatt / Blog, Organizing, Personal Competencies, Search and Rescue Training, Team Competencies

Each block of the graph represents those things that are instrumental in performing a successful technical rescue. These blocks include personnel, equipment, training, and leadership. Each level is supported by the larger and more substantial level immediately below. The Rescue Level is supported by training level blocks that are more extensive and demanding higher skills.

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High Angle Raise with Vortex Side A-Frame, PART 1 FILE N.015 RESCUE RESPONSE TEAM

Lance Piatt / Anchoring, Anchors, Arizona Vortex, General Rigging, Rescue Response (Gear) Team / 7 Comments

Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue or known are here as DCSAR is an elite group of unpaid professionals who are comprised of the full-time paid staff assigned to the Special Services Unit, seasonal personnel in the Marine and OHV units, and 120+ dedicated volunteers who answer the call any time of day or

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Cliff Rescue High Directional and Tracking Line, PART 2 CASE FILE N.014 RESCUE RESPONSE TEAM

Lance Piatt / Safe Practices, Scene Management

Sianna and Natalie are best friends. Walking innocently in the woods and bad luck befriends them… No! A misunderstanding and a lack of awareness on the part of both Natalie and Sianna created this domino effect. So just how often does this happen in real life? Everyday! And thus starts another group of best friends

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Cliff Rescue High Directional and Tracking Line, PART 1 CASE FILE N.014 RESCUE RESPONSE TEAM

Lance Piatt / Designing Your Processes, Organizing, RRG Gear Review

Heros are born and then are refined. The refining process is serving others in need. The degree by which we serve sets the bar of our own promotion. Teams are made and perfected through the individuals. What makes this so fascinating is that never is there a moment when individuals take priority over the team. In

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3 New Rescue Solutions from PMI

Lance Piatt / Pulley Systems, Pulleys & Mechanical Advantage, Specialty Rescue Tower Kits

PMI is proud to announce three all-new Rescue Solutions for co-worker rescue! Built around the winning combination of PMI Extreme Pro™ rope with UniCore® technology and the PMI/ISC D4 Descent Control Device, these three rescue solutions offer simple and compliant answers to some pretty difficult industrial rescue scenarios. A few years ago, we filmed (on location)

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Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems

Lance Piatt / Peak Rescue Institute, Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems / 6 Comments

Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems For decades, rescue agencies and teams have configured their rope rescue systems around some variation of a fully tensioned main line and an untensioned safety or belay line. Organizations and manufacturers have invested a great deal into research and training to make these rope rescue systems as safe as possible.

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Why “cross pollination” (hybridization) is crucial in rope rescue and rigging.

Lance Piatt / Blog, Lance Piatt / 21 Comments

So what exactly is “cross pollination”? Well… glad you asked. Most understand this term through botany channels and while this is true, it is also true that cross pollination is “a sharing or interchange of knowledge, ideas, etc.” and it is through this that I want to make a statement. “Without cross pollination, civilization as

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Day 2 2016 National Cave Rescue Commission training in Mentone, Alabama

Lance Piatt / Blog / 6 Comments

Well, it’s only day 2 of my NCRC training, and my Advil supply is already running low. I’m often finding myself flashing back to Marine Corps boot camp, since the training days here are run in a strikingly similar fashion. You train non-stop all day, with short breaks for hurriedly ingested meals. In caves, hypothermia

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