This course is aimed at those working at height, the course focuses on workmate/contractor rescue from a range of scenarios typically found in the workplace. During training those attending are taught to assess the situation and consider all the available options before attempting to carry out a rescue using a suitable rescue device. The course is application-based training aimed at those persons responsible for maintaining the essential skills acting as an Initial Response Team Member. Building on skills already taught during previous working at height and rescue training, this course develops and enhances the range of skills required of an Initial Response Team Member. The techniques taught are designed to be simple user friendly and easy to remember whilst not putting the rescuer at risk. Students are taught to lower and raise a casualty, be lowered, or raised, and lower and raise themselves independently using pre-rigged rescue equipment rather than using abseil techniques, training will however cover a range of different scenarios including rescue of a work mate suspended by their climbing equipment, in or out of normal arm reach and conscious or unconscious. It deals with issues such as syncope, equipment care and maintenance of skills. An independent backup system will always be installed. This course will also equip those attending with the necessary skills required to evacuate from a high structures, platform, or equipment during an emergency. Operating from a safe area those attending are taught to connect the equipment to a specified anchor points then using simple user-friendly escape equipment they will then be taught to descend to ground. Training is carried out using both dedicated rescue and fall arrest harnesses, descenders, and pre-rigged equipment, however customer specific requirements can be catered for.