a professional
decision

Industrial accidents can have serious consequences, and lives may depend on the immediate
actions taken. Your choice of safety response is an important decision, and getting it wrong is not
an option. From confined space rescue to at heights rescue provision, you have to make a
professional decision: "Who do I choose to provide my Safety Response Team?"

Strict legislation now requires each confined space to be assessed prior to entry, to determine
whether an emergency response team is required, and the Work at Heights Regulations 2005 state:
“It is not acceptable just to rely on the emergency services. The (on-site safety) methods selected
needs to be proportionate to the risk and there should not be reliance on the statutory emergency
services.”

The Safety Response Team you choose must reflect the integrity of your own organisation.
The team must be professional, provide rapid, safe, effective rescue response, be flexible to meet
your operational requirements, and must be also be cost effective.

making the right
choice

The emergency action has to be right first time - every time. You choose professionals - those who
have current qualifications, relevant experience, and the proven ability to respond and manage an
emergency incident.

You choose a provider who invests in state of the art rescue, safety and medical equipment, who ensures its teams undergo regular update training on latest techniques, and holds above industry-
standard indemnity insurance.

professional technical
rescue teams

Lifeskills Medical maintains its expertise and specialist knowledge of working within confined spaces
and at heights working, to provide an emergency response service to clients working within a
variety of sectors including the distilling, civil, utilities and oil and gas sectors.

We have all the necessary equipment, and dedicated, highly skilled teams which can be deployed
in the case of an emergency occurring on projects including power station outage, tank cleaning,
vessel inspection and pump chamber maintenance. Our Technical rescue Teams undergo intensive
regulatory training – covering areas including toxic gases and fumes, the use of breathing
apparatus, casualty handling, and search and recovery techniques.

total safety team
provision

We always consult with you to ensure that we fully understand the operations being carried out,
hazards, risks, and potential rescue requirements of your specific work site. We then work with you
to agree a bespoke emergency procedure plan that complies with relevant legislation but doesn't
impose on your working duties.

Once the plan is agreed, we provide you with a fully equipped medical and industrial trained Emergency Response Technical Rescue Team that supports your own on-site safety and emergency
action plan, and operating and co-operating in unison with your existing on-site workforce.

All Technical Rescue Team members are carefully selected for their individual skills and experience
and are medically trained Emergency Medical Technicians, Registered General Nurses or State Registered Paramedics. This professional medical pre-requisite combined with their extensive
confined space and heights rescue training, ensures that you have an onsite team capable of
effecting successful rescue with professional medical care from any situation. Lifeskills Medical
provides teams that are fully competent in:

• Confined space rescue
• Breathing apparatus including airline systems
• Dynamic risk assessment
• Retrieval from heights
• Pre hospital trauma and medical life support skills
• Medical gases, AED and triage
• Water rescue operations
• Commercial dive-team provision
• Mass casualty management