SMR Foundation Rigging (Glenmore Lodge)

Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) represents25 Mountain Rescue Teams(MRTs) made up of highly trained volunteers who are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to respond to emergencies and carry out a specialist search and rescue service in the mountains and remote communities in Scotland to keep people safe and help people if and when they get into difficulty.

Scottish Mountain Rescue

To introduce attendees to the knowledge and skill required to remain safe on steep ground and create simple access and rescue systems.

Glenmore Lodge

<h3>Introduction:</h3>Mountain Rescue Team members will gain knowledge on how to keep safe on steep terrain andhow to create access (abseil), rigging and basic rescue systems. This course is aimed at traineeor full team members who have limited or no practical knowledge of crag safety or basic riggingconfigurations.

<h3>Course objectives:</h3>By the end of the course, training will have been provided on:<ul><li>Personal protective equipment (PPE) types, inspection regimes, lifespan, strengths</li><li>The hazards associated with the steep terrain and the crag environment</li><li>Measures required to maintain scene safety and key roles of personnel</li><li>Effective communication in the crag environment</li><li>Safe movement and positioning on steep terrain and the crag environment</li><li>The limitations, advantages, disadvantages and appropriate selection and safe use</li><li>of access, rigging and rescue equipment</li><li>Commonly used knots and appropriate use</li><li>How to create anchor systems suitable for single person loads</li><li>How to create edge attendant systems</li><li>How to set-up and use a personal abseil system</li><li>How to create single line lowering systems.</li></ul>

<h3>Accommodation:</h3>The course will start at 2000hrs on Friday, 14 June 2024 at <a href="https://www.glenmorelodge.org.uk" title="https://www.glenmorelodge.org.uk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Glenmore Lodge</a>, Glenmore, PH22 1QZYou will be booked in for Friday and Saturday nights on a shared B&B basis. Packed lunches will be provided for Saturday and Sunday, as well as Saturday night dinner.No meal is provided on Friday evening so you'll probably be best grabbing something before you head up the hill to The Lodge or ring GL to ask if Lochain Bar serving food.Please ensure that you bring something to put your packed lunch in, as well as a drinking bottle, flask and any additional snacks you may want.

<h3>What you need to bring:</h3>All participants are requested to ensure they have transport arranged as the course programme will necessitate travel to and from training venues. Sufficient personal equipment is required to enable candidates to operate within a mountainous and crag environment and in all weather conditions for the duration of the course and don't forget the following:Midge net, midge spray, Harness, helmet , team radio + spare battery, personal MR and crag rescue kit.Participants are encouraged to bring technical rescue equipment as used by their own team.

THE SMALL PRINT!Please speak to your Training Officer before booking this course to ensure it is relevant.We will limit the number of attendees per team at 2 initially.Police Scotland / RAF mountain rescue attendees:Please contact the SMR Office on 01479 861370 before booking onto the course.Cancellation Policy:SMR reserves the right to charge a cancellation fee of £100 if failure to turn up to this course or a cancellation too late in which we cannot fill your space. This fee allows us to offset any costs which we will be incurred as a result of late cancellation. SMR Office will invoice directly to your Mountain Rescue team.If you have any questions about this course, please speak to Viv in the SMR Office on 01479 861370 or 07727 663605 or email viv@scottishmountainrescue.org

<h3>Privacy Notice</h3>Other than trainer(s) and any accommodation provider for this course, Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) will not disclose your information to any company or person, except to help prevent fraud, or if required to do so by law. SMR believe that using your data in this manner is a legitimate interest.You have the right to see any information about you that SMR keep and you also have the right for this information to be deleted at any time. Send an email to info@scottishmountainrescue.org clearly stating you wish SMR to delete your details and we will do so within 10 working days.SMR will send you a feedback form shortly after the event and we are grateful for any feedback. Your feedback will be anonymised for the purposes of statistics and review of the training we deliver.Photographs may be taken at the event and may be used in publications or social media related to Scottish Mountain Rescue. We will seek consent prior to using photographs with recognisable faces. Where individuals are not facially recognisable we will use photographs without seeking consent.We will delete personally identifiable information collected in each financial year on April 1st each year for the financial year that commenced 4 years previously. For example in April 2023 we will delete all personally identifiable information collected in financial year 2019/20 and continue this process on a rolling annual basis. Any data we keep beyond that time for statistical and reference purposes will be anonymised.In the event of incident that requires medical treatment and completion of accident form we are required to retain this record for 7 years.For further information on Scottish Mountain Rescues' Privacy information please see http://www.scottishmountainrescue.org/privacy/

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