Confined space: does your attending perform the rescue, or do they contact first responders
Question came in today that made me think. During confined space entry, is your attending/supervisor the one that would perform rescue and retrieval, or are they trained to call first responders to perform that?
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Only if you have a tripod or some kind of retrieval device. We have that plus use a radio if 911 needs to be called if we cannot handle it. However attendant never enters the confined space personally.
My experience is the attendant/hole-watch never participates in rescue. The attendant’s role is observation, monitoring and communication. The attendant calls for a rescue or assistance.
Our practice is as long as the entrant is attaches to the fall protection retreival system (harness, retractor/retreival device and tripod) the attendand will pull them up.(do the retreival). If they are not attacked and are unresponsive then we call for rescue(911).