Publications, Training, Products & Consulting....................................................Since 1978
Emergency Response International, Inc. dba ERI Publications and Training
Search & Rescue (SAR) Training
Emergency Response International’s SAR publications and training programs continue to set the standard for state of the art theory and practice.We regularly provide SAR training around
the world to law enforcement agencies and training academies, volunteer
search and rescue groups, land management agencies, university students
and government agencies on basic, intermediate and advanced level field
skills and search management. Our standard course offerings range from basic SAR skills to train-the-trainer seminars. Each course can be custom designed to meet the specific needs of any organization. A wide variety of available topics allows the organization to pick those elements that best fit the need. SAR Course Offerings
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- Basic Search and Rescue Skills: The Fundamentals Course Search
- Management Concepts for Team Leaders and Searchers
- Managing Land Search Operations (MLSO)
- Managing the Urban Missing Person Search
- Advanced Concepts in Search Management
- Search Management Instructor Train-the-Trainer
- Track and Clue Awareness (TCA)
- Swiftwater Rescue Skills
Subject Matter Workshops and Seminars
Many of these training programs are custom designed to meet the specific needs of the organization and may include several of the topics listed below:
- Search management theory and practice
- Incident command system
- Liability and other legal issues
- Coordination between law enforcement and volunteer agencies
- Land navigation
- Track and clue awareness
- Low angle rescue
- Signaling and the safe use of pyrotechnics
- Electronic signals and direction finding: ELT, EPIRB, PLB
- Outdoor safety for the SAR person
- Clothing and equipment for the out of doors
- Personal survival kit
- Team equipment
- Use of the computer in SAR
- Investigating the missing person case
- Law enforcement aviation unit support to search and rescue
- Aerial observer – fixed wing and helicopter
- Helicopter operations and personnel safety
- Swift water rescue
- And many other topics . . . . .