Domestic and Industrial Rescue

Our response area for primary rescue includes many factories, farms and workplaces where people could be severely injured in a workplace accident. Our rescue crews have the training and equipment to work with the Ambulance Service to extricate trapped persons from machinery or other heavy equipment.

Our heavy lifting bags, cutting equipment, finger kit, HURST rescue tools and other heavy rescue equipment allow us to lift, move and cut through most industrial equipment to free trapped workers. Machines such as fork lifts, crushing machines, mincing machines and lathes are nasty tools when you fall into them or they malfunction.

The humble tractor can be a killer. Without roll-over protection cages tractors are deadly if they roll over. Some farms also have silos and other machinery that can cause serious injuries.

Domestic rescue is a name given to the small jobs such as rings stuck on fingers, kids hands and fingers stuck in drains or plug holes and other such incidents. We use our finger kit which has a ring cutter and various hand tools designed to cut around delicate objects.

Typical SES Tasks

• Rescue of persons trapped in industrial machinery, vehicles or structures
• Rescue of persons with limbs trapped in objects or objects stuck into or on patients
• Assist the Ambulance Paramedics with difficult patient handling over unstable or awkward terrain
• Provided assist with the immeadiate access to kids locked in cars for the Ambulance and Police
• Rescue support to the fire services in industrial fires
• Cutting rings off fingers where the ring is preventing proper blood circulation