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.
The Outreach Rescue ‘Water Safety / Rescue Awareness’, one-day course complies with the DEFRA ‘Flood Rescue Concept of Operations’ scheme (November 2019 revision) at DEFRA Module / Level 1) Water Awareness.
Covering ‘open water’, ‘still water’, ‘rivers’, ‘lifejacket-user’, ‘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 DEFRA compliant.
‘Annex H’ training – for EA / non 999 personnel available by arrangement.
This course also ticks the boxes for ‘blue-light’ agencies, both full-time, part-time, and of course the voluntary sector such as Search & Rescue and Mountain Rescue Teams.
DEFRA Module 1) Water Safety / Rescue Awareness with optional ‘Annex H’
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’
Royal Life Saving Society ‘National Water Safety Management Programme’
Helping employers comply with the statutory requirements: Personnel working water’s edge where a risk assessment details the chance of an ‘accidental immersion’. HSE endorsed and DEFRA (Flood module) / CDM Regulations 2015 compliant.
RLSS ‘National Water Safety Management Programme’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 provide CDM Regulations 2015 and DEFRA compliant training (including ‘Annex H’ syllabus for non emergency services flood workers), plus, Health & Safety Executive endorsed, CDM Regulations 2015 compliant training via the Royal Life Saving Society.
Bespoke courses can be tailored to your working environment – we specialise in training (and equipping if required) personnel from the Civil Engineering, Construction, Utilities, Environmental, Rail, Ecology and maintenance sectors, with ‘Blue-Light’ training courses on offer for the emergency services / military by request.
