Bucket Truck Rescue
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course demonstrates how to perform a bucket truck rescue. Trainees will see how to lower the boom in an emergency, and two ways to extract an incapacitated person from a bucket. This course also demonstrates the importance of being able to act quickly and decisively during an emergency situation.
COURSE GOALS
Explain and demonstrate several common ways to lower the boom in the event of a bucket truck emergency.
Describe common methods of bucket truck escape, emergency boom lowering, and bucket truck rescue.
Demonstrate two emergency situations and show how personnel should respond.
SUBJECTS AND OBJECTIVES
Emergency Boom Lowering
Explain how to use a bucket truck’s lower controls to lower the boom in an emergency.
Explain how to use a bucket truck’s auxiliary power system to lower the boom in an emergency.
Explain how to bleed a bucket truck’s boom holding valves to lower the boom in an emergency.
Explain how a line mechanic can use safety equipment to escape from a bucket during an emergency.
Bucket Truck Rescue – Part 1
Describe some general considerations associated with performing a bucket truck rescue.
Describe a basic procedure for performing a bucket truck rescue when the boom can reach the ground and the bucket truck has a quick-release device.
Bucket Truck Rescue – Part 2
Explain what rescue blocks are and how they can be used.
Describe a basic procedure for performing a bucket truck rescue using rescue blocks.
Describe special circumstances that may affect a bucket truck rescue.