REFERENCE DOCUMENTSGear testing September 2006 (580kB)
Accidents in Mountain Rescue Operations (North America) Jan 2002 (204kB)
Land Search Operations Manual (3.6MB)
Lanyard Tests (France 2006) (776KB)
Lanyard Analysis (UK Health & Safety Executive 2001) (1.9MB)
PLB Blue Mountains offer (500kB)
COMMUNICATIONS LINKS
These websites can be useful during a search to give up-to-date HF conditions to search parties.
IPS space weather website - HF conditions and warnings
NVIS Frequencies - Gives the best HF frequency for close work (updated every five mins (this reads just like a topo contour map)
HF Radio Workshop Notes (1.6MB)
GENERAL LINKS
CareFlight Helicopter - http://www.careflight.org
http://www.accidentregister.info
A site with accurate information on recent accidents and evacuations in the Blue Mountains area of Australia.
http://www.techrescue.org/
An informative site from Victoria Australia with lots of good links and reference articles
http://warhammer.mcc.virginia.edu/cars/sop/sop4_3.html
The standard operating procedures for a rescue unit in the USA (Charlottesville - Albemarle Rescue Squad), there are some interesting parallels and differences with our current procedures
www.winclean.com.au/iraa/Hanging%20after%20fall.htm
An interesting article on the dangers of hanging in a harness after a fall. The implications of a prolonged hang could be a faster deterioration into unconsciousness and possible death than we currrently realise. From the Industrial Rope Access Association (Aust) web site.
www.rescue-equip.com.au/LRFusage.html
Larkin Frame manual - from the manufacturer's web site, there is also some interesting info on this site about rope and equipment standards and the current state of play with Australia, European and UIAA standards - www.rescue-equip.com.au/REstandards.html
www.pmru.org
www.braemarmountainrescue.org
http://155.217.58.58/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/5-125/toc.htm
Rigging Techniques, Procedures and Applications: U.S. Army Field Manual 5-125
www.verticalreality.com.au/rescue.htm
www.jps.net/lon/river_rescue/river_rescue.html
River Rescue (has some good links to hauling techniques)
www.narc.co.uk/
National Access and Rescue Centre (a UK organisation)