Rescue

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Rescue refers to finding, searching for, supplying and evacuating people from areas that are characterized by a fixed structural enclosure and a greatly reduced or excluded air exchange. Narrow in this sense are, for example, silos, shafts, tanks, cladding in building construction and civil engineering, sewer construction and maintenance.

The dangers for those affected and for rescuers are characterized by falling from great heights, toxic and / or explosive ambient air and an oxygen concentration that deviates from the norm. Rescuers can protect themselves against this with self-contained breathing apparatus , fall protection and height rescue measures .

In Germany, by law, the implementation of rescue operations is the responsibility of both the operators of such systems (e.g. waste water maintenance companies, regulated in the professional association guideline BGR 177) and the municipal fire brigades, which are generally responsible for general assistance . Rescue is extremely dangerous for the rescuers deployed. According to US studies, relatively more emergency services die per rescue than z. B. in house fires.

In contrast to the Anglo-Saxon region - here, emergency rescue as confined space rescue is an integral part of occupational safety and organized public hazard prevention - as a separate discipline in Germany, emergency rescue has only appeared in a few special units of public hazard prevention as part of a specialized service. The reasons for this are doubtful, but could be that a real rescue is very time-consuming and the personnel deployed must have an extremely high standard of education and training. In addition, there is currently only one educational institution in the German-speaking area that seriously and comprehensively qualifies emergency services for rescue operations.