Cold Water Safety & Rescue – DEFRA / CDM Regs ’15 compliant / HSE endorsed.
Occupational Water Safety, Rescue & Flood Training – Matched to the National Guidelines and all Legislative and Best Practice Requirements.
Basic, Intermediate & Advanced training – Industrial & Commercial Sectors.
Employers deploying personnel to work on or around the water are required to provide occupational water safety & rescue training.
Download our brochureThe DEFRA ‘Water Safety / Rescue Awareness’, one-day course complies with the DEFRA ‘Flood Rescue Concept of Operations’ scheme. (DEFRA ‘Con-Ops’ for brevity)
The Annex ‘H’ module superseded by the Annex ‘G’ module in December 2025, the most recent update to the ‘Con-Ops’, to sit between the DEFRA Module 1. ‘Water Awareness’ and Module 2. ‘Water Rescue First Responder’.
This training module was originally aimed at workers and volunteers who work in support of flood response but do not come from rescue organisations as it covers general water safety awareness training and basic self-rescue techniques.
Organisations who routinely carry out work near water outside of flood incidents should consider if Annex ‘G’ meets their required needs: Environment Agency approved and now the ‘Industry Standard’ benchmark for water safety training across industry.
Covering ‘open water’, ‘still water’, ‘rivers’, ‘lifejacket-user’, ‘self-rescue’, ‘co-worker rescues’ amongst other highly practical skills for personnel working on, near or above the water.
Our water safety & rescue courses are CDM Regulations 2015 and compliant with the current DEFRA Con-Ops.
DEFRA Module 1) Water Safety / Rescue Awareness with optional ‘Annex G’The Outreach Rescue ‘Water Rescue First Responder’, two-day course complies with the DEFRA ‘Flood Rescue Concept of Operations’ scheme at DEFRA Module / Level 2).
DEFRA Module 2) ‘Water Safety / Rescue First Responder’
The Water Rescue Technician course enables students to work safely in flood response and other water rescue situations.
By encountering a wide range of training venues over the five days, students develop an understanding of the diverse risks and problems encountered in these difficult environments.
They are given a thorough grounding in all the skills required to work in moving water in a systematic way keeping risks to a minimum.
DEFRA Module 3) 'Water Rescue One Technician’
Our aim is to satisfy both our candidates and their employers, that those personnel working waterside are aware of the inherent risks in what can be considered a ‘hostile environment’.
‘Shore-Based’ / ‘Classroom Orientated’ courses
Personnel working on the water or around watermargins will discover that basic occupational water safety & rescue training is a requirement for managing safety.
Birmingham & Midland Marine Services Ltd provide CDM Regulations 2015 and DEFRA compliant training, including ‘Annex ‘G’ syllabus – Water and flood non-rescue support operations training module), plus, Health & Safety Executive and CDM Regulations 2015 compliant training training via a suite of courses commissioned by British Marine, and accredited by InSTR, the Institute of Search and Technical Rescue.
Bespoke courses can be tailored to your working environment – we specialise in training (and equipping if required) personnel from the Blue-Light / Emergency Services, Civil Engineering, Construction, Utilities, Environmental, Maintenance, Council, Rail, Ecology, Environmental, and inland waters commercial / organisationally run boat sectors.
Water Rescue Instructors hail from both Fire and Rescue Service and Search and Rescue backgrounds; ranging from DEFRA Module 2 2, 3, and 4 Instructor level through to Module 5 – Water and Flood Incident Manager and Module 6 – Flood Rescue Tactical Advisor (FRTA).
