Training
Beginners Mountain Rescue Course
Course is organized trough lectures, field practice ( in Belgrade and on Avala mountain) and
dwelling on field. Course is considered to be finished after well passed
final exam and after one season of working as a lifeguard on Kopaonik Mountain.
Final exams of the course are organized on trainings or on the field (with
constant monitoring by instructors), or on special organized exams in certain
areas.
Basic subjects that course covers are:
- Basic Mountaineering skills
- First Aid and medical assistance
- Rescuing skills
- Fitness
- Skiing
Every year during course for new members, old members have lectures in
medicine. Parallel with medicine lectures all rescuers must pass certain number
field trainings in order to earn valid license for upcoming season.
Finally, only after field trainings, condition check, medicine tests and
first aid tests, old members get official document that have valid license for
season.
Higher ranked courses
All rescuers that have finished beginners Mountain Rescue Course can,
according to their interests, activate themselves on other fields, as well as in
other familiar organizations (speleology, alpinism, scuba-diving, paragliding…)
Those persons, after a certain years of active doing those activities, get
promoted to candidate for a lifeguard, junior lifeguard, senior lifeguard and
instructor lifeguard (in caves, rocks, underwater objects), and as such are
obligated to react in their fields in case of accident.
Seminars
Cooperating with other familiar organizations, in our country or abroad,
seminars are organized very often, lectures and demonstrations in life rescuing
in summer or winter alpinism, rescuing in high mountains, rescuing from
avalanches, from caves and holes and from high buildings in urban arias.
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