Principles of Heavy Vehicle Extrication 1st Edition (New)

IFSTA's Principles of Heavy Vehicle Extrication, 1st Edition gives rescue personnel an understanding of current challenges, techniques, skills and equipment for the safe extrication of victims trapped in heavy vehicles, and in passenger vehicles involved in heavy vehicle incidents. SkillsTrain is the authorised distributor importing and supplying it into Africa. This is a newer, standalone title, split out from IFSTA's passenger vehicle extrication book as heavy vehicle incidents, trucks, buses and similar, increasingly warranted their own dedicated manual.

The manual teaches heavy vehicle extrication across three levels of capability, Awareness, Operations and Technician, moving from foundational material to more complex concepts in the same sequence a rescuer actually encounters at a real incident, from initial scene assessment through to the technical disentanglement work. It covers the job performance requirements of Chapter 9, Heavy Vehicle Rescue, of NFPA 1006, Standard for Technical Rescue Personnel Professional Qualifications (2021 edition), with reference to NFPA 1670 where relevant, so training against it lines up with a recognised international rescue standard.

Splitting heavy and passenger vehicle extrication into separate titles also lets a service build a more targeted library, buying only the specific manual that matches the vehicle types most likely to be involved in incidents within its response area, rather than a single combined book covering material it may rarely use.

Who it is for: firefighters, law enforcement, EMS (Emergency Medical Services) personnel, industrial and transportation emergency response members, public works and utility employees, military responders and rescue personnel who may face a heavy vehicle incident. SkillsTrain supplies this as IFSTA's own published work; we do not write or accredit it.