Course Overview
Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) Instructor – CBRN Academy has designed this 5-day course to train and qualify Emergency responders as self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) instructors. The course focuses on training their operators in the safe use of SCBA to enable them to work in an irrespirable atmosphere. It will provide the instructor with the knowledge and skills to safely plan, risk assess and deliver SCBA courses as required.
Course Objectives and outcomes.
By the end of this course, the participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the planning requirements for SCBA training.
- Demonstrate an understanding of record-keeping requirements.
- Correctly plan a training scenario using SCBA.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the different methods of SCBA training delivery.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how to brief teams for training scenarios.
- Correctly brief a training scenario.
- Correctly deliver SCBA lessons.
- Correctly explain the SCBA system.
- Correctly demonstrate the operation of the SCBA system.
Intended recipients and min max numbers
CBRN Academy has designed this course for people who require to be trained as self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) instructors to deliver training to their responders who are required to work in irrespirable atmospheres.
All attendees must be previously trained to wear and use SCBA. A separate course can be run before attendance to training the attendees in the use of SCBA.
Course Certification
Your CBRN Academy instructor will issue a signed certificate of training completion to all successful participants at the end of the course. To qualify for the official Certificate, the student must attend and complete all assessments and score 80% or more.
Course Methodology
Learning and development will be facilitated through practical sessions, scenarios, classroom lessons, case studies, videos, presentations, participant engagement and equipment familiarisation.
