Rescue point

Rescue point in Hessen

Rescue points (also rescue chain , approach point for rescue vehicle , T-point or emergency meeting point ) are defined approach points for rescue vehicles . In emergencies, they should guide rescue vehicles to the right place more quickly. They are marked with signs on which a reference code of the point is given, often also the European emergency number 112 and the name of the location, occasionally further information such as the telephone number of the local rescue control center, the name of the operator or the like.

history

Rescue point sign on the Ruhr

Rescue points were introduced in Bavaria in the 1990s to improve the care of forest workers in emergency situations and to direct rescue vehicles to the right place more quickly. The data of the purely internal rescue system were not published and were for z. B. not usable for hikers and cyclists . Starting in 2006, signs of the Ruhr-Location Information System ( RuSIS ), developed in cooperation with the DLRG and the fire brigade , were set up in Bochum along the Ruhr to facilitate water rescue . Since then, RuSIS signs have also been installed in other cities on the Ruhr. In 2012 Denmark started to equip all beaches with rescue points. In Bavaria, the Bavarian Forest Administration, in cooperation with the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior , set up a standardized system of fixed rescue points throughout Bavaria.

In October 2013 the Kuratorium für Waldarbeit und Forsttechnik eV (KWF) - on the initiative of the federal states - organized a workshop on the topic of “Forest Rescue Points”. The result was that the information on rescue points available in the forestry operations and administrations should be collected centrally by the KWF and made available to the public.

On January 23, 2014, the KWF published a standardized data set of all forest rescue points for download for the first time. Since then, the data set has been continuously expanded and updated. On the website rettungspunkte-forst.de, the KWF publishes an update in April and October every year or there are further download platforms. The data can be downloaded free of charge by anyone and z. B. in digital applications and navigation devices or as a Web Map Service (WMS).

In April 2018, the KWF rescue point data set contained around 52,167 rescue points from twelve federal states (state, municipal and private forest). The data from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Thuringia, Bremen and Berlin are still missing.

species

KWF recommendation for signposting rescue points

Rescue point on a beach in Denmark

Rescue point signs are not standardized in Germany and are designed very differently in each federal state, sometimes also regionally. Different symbols, layouts, sizes, colors and information texts are used. A white cross on a green or red background is often used. In Bavaria the pictogram is used for emergency collection points . A vehicle registration number , an identification number for the district or the card number of the TK 25 are sometimes used as reference code and a consecutive rescue point number is appended to it. Geographical coordinates are sometimes also given. At RuSIS , the four-digit reference number encodes the river kilometer and the bank ; on the Rhine the district, a rescue point number and the river kilometers. Rescue points on the Rhine can only be distinguished from those in the forest through the latter; for example, the rescue points "FR 102 Rh-km 193.400" and "FR-102" are 40 km apart despite the same number.

This diversity not only makes handling difficult for emergency services and users, but also reduces the enormously important recognition value beyond regions and national borders. For these reasons, the KWF and the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) give a recommendation for legally safe and understandable signage: It is essentially based on the emergency sign "Collection point" (according to DIN EN ISO 7010 ; ASR A1.3), whereby the three people depicted there have been replaced by a point. The symbol is completed by indicating the rescue point designation, instructions and the emergency number 112 to form a self-explanatory sign. With the optional addition of a web address, one or more logos and a QR code , responsibility and background can also be explained.

recommendation

Symbol: Four white arrows pointing to a central point on a green background (color for escape signs according to DIN EN ISO 7010; ASR A1.3)
Text: 1st line: "Rescue point"; 2nd line: rescue point designation; 3rd line: instruction; 4th line: "Emergency number 112"; 5th line: Enter web address
Optional: Logos of the departments involved and printing of a sign-related QR code (link to a website with further information, possibly in different languages, support for error-free cataloging)
Sign size: 230 mm × 420 mm (width × height, portrait format)

Use and data

Rescue points are entered in numerous hiking maps. Basis of many digital applications (apps) - e.g. B. for mobile phones and tablet computers - is the nationwide rescue point data set of the KWF. Based on it z. B. also the widespread app Help in the forest . Many rescue points are also recorded in the free geodatabase OpenStreetMap and can be found using apps based on OpenStreetMap such as OsmAnd . A collection of many rescue points can be installed on navigation systems with the POIbase software . Various state authorities or forest offices offer overview lists or maps of their rescue points for purchase or download. It is not known whether specialists who have been alerted via first-aid apps have short-term access to the situation data of the rescue points.

Local expressions

Due to the federal structures and the different types of forest ownership, the concept of rescue points is implemented very differently in Germany. There is no direct legal basis or public mandate in Germany for the identification of forest rescue points and therefore no uniform regulation. Every forest owner is responsible for this. The juxtaposition of different solutions and a lack of agreements on points close to the border make handling difficult for both the rescue control centers and the users. The preservation of the signage for the rescue points in the area is not guaranteed everywhere.

In order to develop a system that is as uniform as possible both within the federal states and nationwide, framework conditions as well as tried and tested methods and procedures were brought together within a working group coordinated by the KWF. The most practicable procedure in each case was summarized in a guideline for the identification of forest rescue points. This is primarily aimed at forest owners and responsible bodies. It can be accessed as a PDF document at rettungspunkte-forst.de.

Rescue point signs are also not standardized in Germany and are designed very differently in each federal state, sometimes also regionally. Different symbols, layouts, sizes, colors and information texts are used.

In Remscheid , the fire brigade has equipped the 45 km² area of nature and landscape protection areas with forest rescue points. A white sign with a red border shows the location.

More than 12,000 rescue points have been set up in Bavaria since 2013.

In Denmark, over 5000 rescue points have been set up on bathing beaches since 2012.

In Frankfurt were the occasion of German Unity 25-year tags on Main assembled a very large number of signs on a length of 10 km.

In Hamburg , over 100 "emergency meeting points" in forest and moor areas were georeferenced in 2016 .

Example of a rescue point marking in Schleswig-Holstein
Rescue point and signpost in the Hunsrück at the confluence of the K117 into the L212 not far from Weiler, municipality of Boppard Rhineland-Palatinate
Forest rescue point in Remscheid
Rescue point in Laufach , Bavaria
Emergency meeting point in the district of Goslar , Lower Saxony
Rescue point of the State Forestry Operations Saxony-Anhalt in the Harz district

Web links

Commons : rescue points - collection of images, videos and audio files

www.rettungspunkte-forst.de

www.rettungspunkte.com Search engine for rescue points

Forest rescue chain in Bavaria

Video of the forest rescue chain on www.forstcast.net

Leaflet "Identification of forest rescue points" from the Board of Trustees for Forest Work and Forest Technology eV (KWF)

Individual evidence

↑ Safe forest work. Forest rescue chain. Bavarian Forest Administration , accessed on August 15, 2016 .

↑ Redningsnummer.dk. Retrieved August 15, 2016 (Danish).

↑ bochum-local: RuSIS for quick rescue. (No longer available online.) In: www.bochum-lokal.de. Archived from the original on March 9, 2014 ; accessed on August 14, 2016 .

↑ New signs direct rescuers to the Ruhr ( memento from November 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 14, 2016

↑ Forest rescue points - overview. Board of Trustees for Forest Work and Forest Technology (KWF), accessed on September 4, 2018 .

↑ KWF creates digital maps of forest rescue points. Board of Trustees for Forest Work and Forest Technology (KWF), accessed on September 4, 2018 .

↑ New version of the KWF rescue points published. Board of Trustees for Forest Work and Forest Technology (KWF), accessed on September 4, 2018 .

↑ Kuratorium für Waldarbeit und Forsttechnik eV: Identification of forest rescue points 2017, p. 14

↑ Kuratorium für Waldarbeit und Forsttechnik eV: Identification of forest rescue points 2017, p. 15

↑ INTEND Geoinformatics: Rescue points app "Help in the forest" ready for download. In: forstpraxis.de. Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag , July 19, 2013, accessed August 15, 2016 .

↑ Marc Gehling: Weekly task of rescue points KW 37/38 September 8th - September 21st, 2014. In: OSM Blog. FOSSGIS , September 8, 2014, accessed August 15, 2016 .

↑ Open Street Maps Automated Navigation Directions. OsmAnd.de, accessed on August 15, 2016 .

↑ Speed cameras and POIs for navigation systems and smartphones. pocketnavigation.de GmbH, accessed on December 15, 2018 .

↑ Rhineland-Palatinate ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Information on the rescue point, as an example@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wald-rlp.de