REF:H0050
This was first developed for NCB (National
Coal Board) in the UK.
The design of the split chest was for rescuing
a worker that had fallen into the coal storage
shafts in which they could sink up to their
necks as in grain silo's, etc. The strop
could be threaded around and under their
arms to reduce disturbing the surrounding
ground. The legs were added about twelve
months later after watching the rescue of
people from a plane overshooting a runway
into the ice covered river in Washington
USA. Survivors that were half conscious with
the cold were slipping out of the rescue
strops and dropping back into the river.
Putting the legs onto the
design would have reduced the possibility
of this happening, this addition also made
it easy to rescue people stuck on sea cliffs
and quarry’s, etc.
The Fire and Rescue services
took it and found it can be used in most
types of rescue that do not require a stretcher,
even confined space, shafts and wells.
The UK Maritime Coastguard
Agency is possibly the biggest single user
of this product in the world at present.
The adjustment loops on the chest gives it
a large range of chest sizes from very young
children to adults. The adjustment on the
legs allows the wearer to be in a range of
positions from vertical to sitting. The SAR
Rescue Strop is ideal for lifting into a
sit position a fallen person who is hanging
in a fall arrest harness thereby stopping
the possibility of suspension trauma. Also
lifting people from water in a horizontal
position and reducing the possibility of
shock due to blood rush from the brain to
the legs. |
