Remote Area Worker (RAW)
£161.50 Book Now
↓ Course pre-requisites
↓ Course summary
- Consideration of the key risks in remote locations and relevant mitigation
- Realistic and reasonable management of risk
- Creation and application of protocols for dealing with scenarios
- Sources of forecasts and interpretaton of that forecast to the remote area
- Risks associated with specific forecasts/enviroments
- Creation and application of protocols for dealing with scenarios
- Checklist and application of basic personal safety equipment
- Choice of map and understanding map features
- Measuring direction, distance and taking grid references
- Route planning
- Basic use of GPS Unit
- Orientating the map and locating the position
- Taking and walking on a bearing
- Appropriate navigating techniques
- Measuring distance on the ground
- Using a GPS
- Recongnising difficult terrain from a map and on site
- Moving over steeper/broken terrain
- Crossing streams and marshes
- Recognising, avoidong and dealing with bogs
- Common hazards and avoidance
- Emergency kit
- Dealing with an incident
- Communications
- Casualty care
↓ Who is the course for?
↓ What equipment do I need to bring?
- Compass (preferably Silva Type 4)
- 1:50,000 map of relevant area
- Digital watch with stopwatch function
- Small personal first aid kit
- Waterproof jacket and trousers
- Torch with spare batteries (preferably head torch)
- Walking boots
- Fleece/warm jacket
- Warm hat and gloves
- Rucksack
↓ What does my course fee include?
Current situation
As you are probably aware the current advice from the Northern Ireland Executive, Health Promotion Agency NI and Health & Safety Executive NI, as well as our expert group within Sport NI is that we cannot deliver any face to face courses for our customers including use of the Hot Rock Climbing Wall.
We know that you and many others like minded folk are very keen to get back on track with your plans to attend and complete a range of personal skills training and qualifications in a range of disciplines.
Believe us when we say we are equally keen to get outside with you and help you reach your goals and complete that journey.
How do we know? Because every day we get emails and phone calls asking when will courses resume and with every NI Executive mention of easing of restrictions the emails and phone calls are more frequent……