USAR Coordination
Does the USAR team correctly utilise the required INSARAG forms when conducting USAR operations?
Does the USAR team follow the UCC's reporting instructions?
Assessment, Search and Rescue Methodology
Does the USAR team correctly utilise the INSARAG Marking System during the ASR2?
Does the USAR team collect and send the results of the ASR2 to UCC/LEMA?
Operations
Does the USAR team take the search equipment to the operational worksites, based on the available information?
Does the USAR team take the rescue equipment to the site of operations, based on the available information?
Does the USAR team take the medical and patient extrication equipment to the site of operations, based on the available information?
Worksite Management
Safety
Does the USAR team correctly utilise the INSARAG Signalling system?
INSARAG Marking System
Does the USAR team correctly update the INSARAG Marking System once it has completed working on the site?
Search
Cutting, Breaking and Breaching
Lifting and Moving
Shoring and Stabilisation
Does the USAR team establish a cut station outside of the danger zone with the appropriate equipment in place?
Does the USAR team construct the shores outside of the danger zone, entering the danger zone only to complete the final assembly?
Cribbing and wedging - when lifting/stabilising loads.
Window/door stabilisation.
Rope Work
Does the USAR team carry out a risk assessment in order to produce a plan prior to commencement of rope operations?
Confined Space
Does the USAR team conduct a risk assessment prior to entering the confined space?
Does the team have an emergency evacuation procedure in place before entering the confined space?
Does the team conduct a safety briefing before entering the confined space?
Medical Care
Do the USAR healthcare practitioners have the ability to provide preventative and primary care to the team throughout its deployment?