Abstract

An important factor in ensuring success in an intervention operation in dangerous environments lays in the training process, in conditions as close as possible to real intervention situations, as well as the manner of setting up rescue teams. In order to organize the intervention process as efficiently as possible, when setting up rescue teams we must take into account work consumption and physiological parameters achieved by members of the rescue teams during practical training carried out within the mobile training facility. In case of special incidents, the rescue intervention can take place in areas with small (limited) sections, spaces with high temperature, in low visibility conditions, which would make rescuers’ intervention even more difficult. Conditions mentioned above can be easily created within the rescuers’ mobile training facility, endowment of INSEMEX Petroșani, facility that through its equipment and facilities, allows monitoring of labour consumption and physiological parameters of rescuers throughout and in all training situations. The current paper presents training methods of intervention and rescue personnel within the mobile training facility and progress of work consumption / physiological parameters of rescuers throughout these practical exercises, with the aim of preparing intervention and rescue teams for situations close to real ones.

Highlights

  • When toxic gases are released as a result of damage or the air composition is qualitatively changed, it is necessary to protect the airways of persons caught in this area and those who enter the area to evacuate the injured and eliminate the damage, with respiratory protection devices [1].Respiratory protection devices allow the rescuers to move over large areas, regardless of the nature or concentration of toxic gases

  • During the practical training process, rescue teams performed several types of exercises with different degrees of difficulty, the labour consumption being calculated for each one

  • Development of a mobile training facility led to development of the practical training infrastructure of intervention and rescue personnel in toxic/ explosive/ flammable environments, allowing for research studies with the final objective of elaborating and implementing selection and mobile facility training procedures for intervention and rescue teams working in confined spaces, both within INCD INSEMEX as well as at economic agent’s rescue stations

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Summary

Introduction

When toxic gases are released as a result of damage or the air composition is qualitatively changed, it is necessary to protect the airways of persons caught in this area and those who enter the area to evacuate the injured and eliminate the damage, with respiratory protection devices [1]. The paper presents new types of training methods for intervention and rescue personnel in the mobile workout facility and the determination of work consumption / physiological parameters of rescuers throughout these practical exercises, with the aim of setting up intervention and rescue teams, teams that have rescuers whose physical performance and physiological parameters have close values. This is an determining factor in the success of an intervention in case of a major event [4]

Presentation of the mobile workout facility
Calculating labour consumption for climbing the infinity ladder
Calculation of labour consumption for ergometer bicycle
Calculation of labour consumption for walking and running on the treadmill
Calculation of labour consumption for performing traction on the ergometer
Calculation of labour consumption to cover the confined spaces circuit
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