The Right Stuff
Operational Team Member Skills
But don't let this list scare you just because you don't have all of the required `formal' training skills. Training is important, however, we feel the ability to "learn on-the-fly"; to "be able to adapt to any situation" and the guts to tackle the tasks at hand, whatever they may be, carries a lot of weight as well.
As well as having the skills, applicants for Operational Membership must have read the on-line information before completing and forwarding their resume. All applicants resumes, that pass the initial screening, will be placed before an international Adjudication Group for evaluation. Adjudication and personal investigation can take from three to six months or more. Probational acceptance as an Operational Member requires the positive vote of two thirds of the Adjudicators. Final acceptance requires a 100 percent vote and will be only granted after completion of and debriefing from your first mission.
The Skills
The following list covers just some of the technical training skills you should have acquired to be considered for team membership (On-Site Training - Provided by TEERS at your first deployment) :
- Air Hammers - Use and repair
- Anchor systems
- Back up systems
- Basic First Aid Technique
- Basic Structural and Confined Space Rescue
- Changing a system's direction to meet an ever changing situation
- Communication for rescue - Walkie Talking, CB, Satellite Communications Systems
- Concrete Cutting and Boring Equipment - Familiarity with
- Diamond Drilling Equipment - Familiarity with
- Emergency Care of the Sick and Injured
- Explosives - Use and Safety Procedures for Explosives and Blasting Agents
- Fire Fighting - Class A, B, and C Fires
- General rescue safety
- Hand Signals
- Hazardous Materials
- Heavy Equipment Operation - Bobcats to Dozers and more
- Litter rigging
- Maintenance Program
- Needs Assessment
- Oxy-Acetylene - Use and Safety
- Potential hazards
- Raising systems
- Rescue Team Development
- Rope Rescue
More Skills
- Basic Rope Rescue
- Advanced Rope Rescue
- Ascending techniques
- Descending techniques
- Belay devices
- Belay techniques
- Knots for rescue
- Lowering systems
- Mechanical advantages
- Rappelling
- Tactical Rappelling
- Understanding rope and webbing
- Self equalizing anchors
- Safety equipment (its uses and abuses)
- Safety requirements for use of Rescue Equipment
- Safety - General Heavy Construction
- Scaffold - Tube and Clamp Erection
- Self Rescue
- Trench Rescue Techniques
- Water Purification Systems - Portable
- Water Skills
- Swimming - You must be a strong swimmer
- Boat Handling Skills - both power and manually powered vessels
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