RESPIRATORY PROTECTIVE DEVICES

The course provides firefighting team members with specific training to deal with cases of intervention in which the use of respiratory protective devices is necessary.

Theoretical aspects

• Recognizing cases where the self-contained breathing apparatus is necessary:
• High temperature air
• Suboxygenated atmospheres
• Mixture of air and toxic products

• Breathing physiology:
• Airway system (how human breathing works)
• Mechanisms that control breathing frequency and air consumption
• Respiratory muscles and types of breathing (thoracic, diaphragmatic and clavicular)

• Breathing techniques
• r-ebt
• skip breathing
• breathing aimed at the intervention performance

• respiratory protective devices:
• devices which are depending on the environment atmosphere
• devices which are not depending on the environment atmosphere

• Hygiene and healthiness standards
• Contaminated PPE management after intervention

Practical sessions

• Breathing work:
• Breathing test, use of breathing techniques

• Use of respiratory protective devices:
• Checks before the intervention
• Devices wearing/removing
• Familiarization with devices
• Breathing test, use of respiratory protective devices

Weekly frequency

APT

None

To provide the emergency team members with a specific training aimed at using protective devices in case of intervention

Instructors with a multi-year experience in the field of Firefighting, Safety Management and Accident Prevention

Theoretical aspects

Recognition of cases where the airway protective devices are necessary

Breathing physiology

Breathing technique to preserve air

Airway protective devices

hygiene and healthiness standards to consider after the intervention

practical sessions

Breathing tests

Practical tests with the use of respiratory protective devices