Search and Rescue

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Table of content:

1. Introduction 3

A) Search and Rescue

B) Definitions

2. Types of search and rescue 6

3. Standards/Qualifications 7

A) Medical

B) Rescue

4. Advantages and limitations 10

A) Advantages

B) Limitations

5. Techniques used 11

Conclusion 13

Reference list 14

Introduction

Search and Rescue (SAR)

It is the search for and providing aid to people who are in danger. The general field for search and rescue are typically determined by the type of terrain the search is conducted and they are classified many specialty sub-fields. (Major, R.H., 1859).

Definitions according to Emergency management service, 2008:

TERMINOLOGY DEFINITIONS

Alerting post The place that acts as an intermediary between a person reporting and rescue coordination centre or rescue sub-centre.

Awareness range The distance where by a search scanner can discover something different first from its surroundings but not yet identify it.

Awareness stage The time during which the SAR system becomes well informed of potential incident.

Conclusion stage The time during a SAR incident when SAR teams and companies return to their normal places and get ready for another incident.

Coordination The combination of organizations and elements to make certain of effective search and rescue response.

Datum A geographic point, line or are used as a settlement in search planning.

Datum area A place where it is set up that the search object is likely to be discovered.

Datum line A line, such as the impoverished craft’s intended track line or line of bearing, which defines the mid-point of the datum area

Distress phase A situation where there is reasonable certainty that a vessel or other craft (an air craft or a pers...

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Conclusion

Search and Rescue is an imperative team to have in each city where there emergency service is. It doesn’t have to be working every day, but a team must be chosen. This SAR team must have all the qualifications required, if not the team will have limitations. A team assigned for a place must be suitable for whatever the disaster that has occurred.

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Reference list:

Alegeo, J., 1993, Fifty years among new words: a dictionary of neologisms, Cambridge University Press.

http://www.hazmatsolutions.net/HazMatTraining/HazMatTechnicianLevel.htm , 2010, retrieved 2014.

http://www.resculife.co.za/courses-1/--fire-fighter-2 , retrieved 2013.

http://www.hpcsa.co.za/board_emergency.php, 2006.

Major, R.H., 2001, The Hakluyt Society, London.

Saly, 2004, Funding SAR services: Strategies for Africa, Senegal.

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