Confined Space Rescue Support Team
ESS supplies rescue teams for customers who are conducting work in confined spaces. ESS's Rescue Teams are trained to safely enter these spaces and provide assistance in the event of an emergency. They are trained to provide care in case of injury and to bring out any person that may be trapped in a confined space.
What is a Confined Space Rescue Team?
ESS’s Confined Space Rescue Team offers a range of services to allow you to safely execute your task in a confined space. Our highly qualified and experienced team of Confined Space Safety and Rescue specialists have a genuine understanding of the issues faced within these challenging environments and are fully compliant with the requirements of confined space regulations. Qualified not only to manage, work and rescue in confined spaces, but they are also trained and experienced in carrying out emergency medical treatment in accordance with NHS protocols, including first aid and resuscitation.
ESS’s Confined Space Rescue Team main purpose is to provide emergency cover for those teams who are operating in a confined space. We do however offer a wide range of related services including:
- Confined Space Entry and Management
- Compiling Safe Systems of Work
- Confined Space Accompaniment
- Risk Assessment Creation
- Confined Space Rescue
- Extended Tunnel Working Support
- Top Man Service
- Pumping Out Service
It is a requirement of the Confined Space Regulations 1997 Regulation 5 to ensure that suitable and sufficient emergency arrangements are to be in place for the rescue of any person in the event of an emergency. Furthermore, where appropriate there will also be the need for necessary equipment to enable resuscitation procedures to be carried out. The arrangements must be in place before any person enters the Confined Space.
On average, work in Confined Spaces kills fifteen people every year in the UK across a wide range of industries, from those involving complex plant through to simple storage vessels. In addition, a number of people are seriously injured. Those killed include not only people working in confined spaces but those who try to rescue them without proper training and equipment.
ESS’s Confined Space Rescue Team are trained to the highest standards and each individual has an in-depth knowledge of the relevant legislation and regulations for the task at hand.
Confined space rescue reinforced by experts utilising top-of-the-range equipment
By choosing ESS to provide your confined space rescue support, you receive the reassurance of knowing you have a team with the expertise and equipment to take life-saving action if the time comes. As the leading safety equipment rental company, we have nurtured relationships with the leading safety equipment manufacturers and are proud to stock one of the most modern and cutting-edge fleets in the UK. As such, you can feel confident that your Rescue teams will be equipped to carry out the task at hand.
Experienced professionals, huge knowledge in confined space working with varied scenarios whose in-depth understanding will ensure safe entries into confined spaces which in turn will ensure compliance to the Confined Space Regulation 1997.
Qualified to the latest UK Water Qualifications - WUK02 Safe Entry into the Water UK Confined Space Classification NC2, NC3 and NC4 and WUK04 Confined Space Rescue (City & Guilds Recognised Qualification).
Confined Space Medical Qualification FREC3 - This includes Basic Life Support including oxygen resuscitation, administration of Entonox, defibrillation, spinal injury immobilisation, advanced casualty treatment, extrication of a casualty from a confined space and liaising with the Emergency Services, we are also licenced to carry and administer medical gases and adhere to strict clinical governance
ESS are THE training specialists in Safety
Did you know that you can also receive your confined space training through ESS? Confined space training is available throughout the UK delivered via our dedicated training venues. ESS has invested in creating the most realistic training experience for our delegates and our training classrooms offer the perfect environment for learning. We can also come to you with our on-site mobile confined space training trailer so no matter where you are based, ESS can support your training needs.
