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About the Role

The Rescue Technician provides technical rescue standby for customer projects including confined space rescue and technical rope rescue, as well as first aid and CPR. Assists in assessing risks, readying rescue equipment, and planning practical and effective solutions towards safe working practices in compliance with client’s standards. In case of accident, locates the patient, assesses any injuries, packages for extrication, removes patient from the threatening environment and turns over to EMS for medical attention and transport.

Responsibilities

Assists in assessing potential hazards and drafts a Confined Space Rescue Preplan and a Rescue Safety Analysis (RSA).
Identifies and communicates potential hazards to all affected parties.
Determines hazard controls and emergency contingency plans.
Ensures that required safety equipment and PPE is readily available and in good working order.
Conducts general air quality monitoring and makes recommendations for hazard control or personal protective equipment based on the interpretation of this data.
Conducts daily job briefings with customers and workers.
Performs on-going monitoring of job conditions and equipment resources and reports observations and recommendations to supervisor to assure both worker and team safety is always maintained.
Completes daily ICS (Incident Command System) reports.
Locates the patient, assesses any injuries, packages for extrication, removes patient from the threatening environment and turns over to EMS for medical attention and transport.
Renders first aid and CPR to the level of training.
Follows handling, inspection, cleaning, and preventative maintenance guidelines for all rescue equipment so that it is in a constant state of readiness.
Maintains and accurately inventories and documents all rescue related equipment.
Assists with special projects as assigned.

Requirements

Ability to inspect, clean and perform preventative maintenance on all rescue equipment so that it is in a constant state of readiness.

Skills

Confined Space Entrant/Attendant Certification
Healthcare Provider CPR
First Aid with AED
First Responder or better
Haz-whopper
4 Gas Monitor Operation Training
Familiar with OSHA Atmosphere Limitation
Proven Proficiency in Rescue Operations

Location

Office and field/production environments
Customer sites

Work Type

Travel to and from customer sites 75% of time

Experience Level

2 years of relevant rescue experience required

Education Level

High School diploma or GED

About the Company

Total Safety is the world's premier provider of integrated safety and compliance services and the products necessary to support them, including gas detection, respiratory protection, safety training, fire protection, compliance and inspection, industrial hygiene, onsite emergency medical treatment/paramedics, communications systems, engineered systems design, and materials management.
Our Core Values are People, Safety & Wellbeing, Accountability, Responsibility, Empowerment, Honesty, Transparency, and Integrity.

Equal Opportunity

Total Safety and its subsidiaries afford equal opportunity in employment to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, pregnancy, familial status, disability status, veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected under Federal, State or Local law.
Total Safety is an Equal Opportunity Employer.