SEARCH TECHNICAL AND RESCUE TEAM

TRAINING 

STAR takes training very seriously, it could save your life or the life of those you love.

we meet weekly on tuesday evenings from 19:15 hrs until approximatly 21:30.

we do undertake occasional weekend training also around cheshire and often with neighbouring search and rescue teams and emergency services

when our volunteers join the team they embark on initial training in 4 main areas.

These areas are SEARCH, CASUALTY CARE, WATER RESCUE, ROPE RESCUE.

SEARCH:- our volunteers are trained to the IFRA search technician sylabus, which is the same as lowland sar teams in accordance with ACPO- association of chief police officers guidance.

CASUALTY CARE:- our volunteers are tought to look after casualties in hostile environments over extended periods of time.

our training is in accordance with the IFRA casualty care syllabus and includes oxygen administration, airways, defibrilation and cervical spine immobilisation. our resuscitation module is the intermediate life support course by the european resus council.

WATER RESCUE:- this module covers basic water awareness and also FIRST RESPONDER level training. it is the same training every fire and rescue service has done to enable safe response at water and flood incidents.  our training is recognised by the association of chief fire officers and also DEFRA national flood enhancement rescue project.

ROPE RESCUE:- our volunteers are trained to utilise rope access and rescue techniques to search on slopes/ steep embankments or to rescue casualties utilising mechanical advantage systems in urban or rural environments.

as well as these 4 main components new volunteers also learn about how the team works, our policies procedures and also how to use equipment.

additional training available to volunteers includes:- communications, incident command, search team leader and controler, powerboat operator, helicopter awareness all to nationally approved standards.