ATS Vehicle Extrication

Vehicle Extrication covers the work of freeing trapped occupants from a crashed vehicle, and it sits in Action Training Systems' Emergency Operations category, with SkillsTrain, the authorised ATS distributor for South Africa, supplying it locally. The series is built toward NFPA 1006, the National Fire Protection Association standard covering technical rescue and emergency operations competencies, and it takes a responder from an overview of a typical extrication incident through specific stabilisation, access and extrication techniques, with the ten titles moving from a whole-incident overview down to the specific procedures used on scene.

This entry is supplied as USB or DVD with a classroom streaming option, and it uses the teach, test and track model, assessing a learner as they progress and replaying any section answered incorrectly before letting them continue. SkillsTrain also supplies the full ten-title series as a dedicated USB package and as an online video series, giving a department flexibility in how the programme is rolled out.

Who it is for: fire and rescue services building vehicle extrication competency, and training officers who want a structured pathway from incident overview through to the specific techniques a crew uses on scene, rather than training on extrication techniques without first establishing a shared sense of how the whole incident unfolds.