Abseiling / Team Building / Rope Rescue Skills

Looking for a challenge? Wanting to develop team spirit? Looking to advance your rope rescue / abseiling skills?

Find 5 friends or colleagues and begin your abseiling adventure. This two day course will provide you with an introduction to abseiling. It is aimed at beginners through to those who have rope skills and want to gain more proficiency with rope and rope rescue systems. An ideal skills advancement for workplace rescue teams.

Numbers normally limited to six to allow participants individualised attention.

This training course, run by a qualified abseil Instructor will introduce participants to the following topics:

• Safety
• Equipment familiarisation and maintenance.
• Establishing safe and workable anchor systems.
• Operating rope rescue lowering and raising systems.
• Performing rope-based rescues.

The course will be tailored to the needs of each group. Courses available on demand either weekdays or weekends.

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Bomb Threat Training

Devereux-Blum training works with a variety of clients nationally to develop their capacity to effectivly manage bomb threats to their organisations. Need to develop or enhance your plans for individual or multilple sites, then we can assist you. We have over twenty years operational experience to draw on with specialist knowledge on explosive devices and managing these threats. For further information telephone 04 232 5363 or contact Sharyn by This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Breathing Apparatus Training

Devereux-Blum training works with a variety of clients nationally to develop their emergency response and breathing apparatus teams.

We have over twenty years operational Fire Service experience to draw on with specialist knowledge on breathing apparatus wearing and equipment. We have industry contacts for maintaining your equipment and can provide you with technical advice on equipment purchase and maintenance. For further information telephone 04 232 5363 or contact Paul by This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Building Premier Package

This five day premier package incorporates training in key areas that relate to emergency preparedness within a multi-storied building. CIMS, Floor Warden/Fire Evacuation, Fire Extinguisher, General Rescue.

The package involves four days of training for response staff plus one day of consulting with those implementing the structure at a strategic level.

All multi-storied buildings need teams of people who know how to respond to manage emergencies. We are experienced in training these responders to deal with a range of emergencies.

Our Building Premier Package includes the following:

• CIMS training to develop the overall structure that operates within the building.
• Warden training to ensure the wardens know how to deal with all types of emergencies from fires, bomb threats, suspicious packages, earthquakes etc.
• Fire Extinguisher training to provide the skills to use extinguishers within your building to extinguish small fires.
• General Rescue/Civil Defence training to ensure people know how to manage the response to an earthquake which may involve rescue and remaining on site for up to 72 hours.
• Working with those who coordinate the teams to ensure you have a plan for your building and know how to structure these response groups.

Training can be a combination of in-house and public courses and tailored to meet your requirements.

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Building Warden Awareness - Fire Evacuation Procedures

This training package ensures that building wardens have a clear understanding of their responsibilities and actions expected of them in the event of an emergency which affects their building and its occupants. Content includes material on Bomb threats, Earthquakes and Incident Management.

Handouts and practical course content are key features of this course. In house training is the ideal situation as people learn about the buildings they work in and the facilities available to them. Workshops are run to cater for those who require training for one or two individuals.

Delivery includes Evacuation Chair training for those who are required to assist people with disabilities during an evacuation.

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Business Continuity Training

Proper protection of any business requires foresight, risk management planning, robust procedures, staff training and regular testing. How important is it to you to get your business up and running as quickly as possible after an emergency situation? What are your stakeholder expectations and service level agreements? What are the implications if your business is interrupted for a prolonged period?

This training course is designed for your key business continuity response staff. Familiarisation of the business continuity plan is essential if they are to evoke the plan and provide for business continuance and recovery.

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Chemical Spills Training

Regular spill response training and spill control exercises are essential to ensure that key staff understand their responsibility for site safety, spill control and environmental protection. Key staff should be familiar with emergency planning, drainage systems and all staff should have access to important telephone numbers such as the Emergency Services.

CIMS (Co-ordinated Incident Management System)

CIMS is a valuable incident management tool for those involved in managing emergency situations.

This high level training is directed at Emergency Service Responders who have direct responsibility for managing emergency response including Communication Centre Staff, Police Officers, Firefighters, Ambulance Officers, Government Agencies, District Health Boards, Hospital staff, Council EMO's and Workplace Response teams.

Training includes the New Zealand Co-ordinated Incident Management System, (CIMS) a system used by leading emergency services since 1998. CIMS training is highly recommended for those who through legislative responsibilities are deemed to be the Lead Agency in an emergency. 

CIMS is now being used extensively across Government agencies and many Corporates as they develop 'Adaptive Management' and 'Resiliency' within their respective organisations.

 

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CIMS Premier Package

This five day Premier Package incorporates Training in CIMS 2, CIMS 4 and our CIMS Integration package providing you with support to integrate the CIMS structure into your organisation.

The package involves three days of training for response staff and two days of consulting with those implementing the structure at a strategic level. 

Our CIMS Premier Package includes the following:

• a one day CIMS 2 course to learn about the NZ Coordinated Incident Management structure and how it is widely used in New Zealand to manage emergencies.
• a two day CIMS 4 course to develop an understanding how the CIMS structure is applied to manage events which occur in your organisation and where staff have to deal with other responding agencies like the Police, Fire Service etc.
• two days working with those responsible for implementing the structure, integrating it into existing Emergency and BCP plans.

Training can be a combination of in-house and public courses and tailored to meet your requirements.

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Civil Defence / Rescue Training

New Zealand is a country at constant risk of civil emergencies. Recent events in Haiti and in 2009 in the Pacific region including the earthquakes / tsunami near Samoa and Indonesia highlight the need to prepare ourselves to deal with these events.  

We deliver civil defence / rescue training throughout New Zealand and have for a number of years been contracted at a national level as General Rescue trainers and assessors by the Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management.

Our training packages provides both theoretical and practical training, enabling course participants to develop the skills required to become effective members of a light rescue team for civil defence purposes and workplace emergencies.

Government agencies, emergency services, councils and lifelines groups are required under the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 to ensure that they are able to function to the fullest possible extent, even though this may be at a reduced level, during and after an emergency. For all other business it makes good sense to prepare for emergencies. Look after the most valuable assets your business has... your people.

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Confined Space Entry

Working in a confined space is potentially one of the most dangerous of all workplace hazards. Working in a confined space is considered to be 150 times more dangerous than doing the same job outside. Over the years, many workers, in a range of occupations, have lost their lives or suffered serious harm while working in tanks, vats, sumps, sewers, pits, traps and other types of confined space. All of these deaths and injuries could be averted by following the established procedures for such work and using proper personal protective equipment.

Our training is aimed at people who are required to enter confined spaces or responsible for those who enter.

Course content is designed not only to ensure that confined spaces are made safe for those entering them, but also to highlight the likely hazards associated with such work.

Besides covering the conditions of work for an organisations own employees it also covers contractors or others on the premises. Additionally, content covered will be compatible with obligations under the Health and Safety in Employment (HSE) Act 1992.

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Consultancy

Devereux-Blum training works with a variety of clients nationally to develop their capacity to effectively manage emergencies.

We have many years experience in working alongside those responsible for Health & Safety and Emergency Management and consult on a range of professional matters.

If you have responsibility within your organisation and would value independent input, contact us to involve us in your planning / meetings.

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Developing a 'We' safety culture within the Organisation

This quality facilitation focuses on strategic planning, emergency planning and processes, team building, creating an organisational vision and commitment and effective problem solving. These sessions can be delivered in a range of ways to meet the organisations needs.

Aimed at Managers, Health and Safety teams and those interested in developing a more caring culture within the workforce.

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Earthquake Awareness

This course is designed to give all staff an awareness of the risk of earthquakes within New Zealand and to assist them in their preparedness within their workplace and homes.

Content covers:

• Recent events within NZ
• Civil Defence Structure in NZ
• Planning for emergencies
• Managing an event at an organisational level
• The CIMS structure
• Personal safety at work and home
• Personal preparedness
• Household emergency plans
• Survival kits
• Getaway bags & Grab bags
• What happens after the earthquake
• Utilities
• Sewage & Sanitation issues
  

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Emergency Management Planning & Procedure Development

Emergency Management planning enables people and organisations to reduce the impact, prepare for, respond to and recover from a range of emergencies and disasters. Planning promotes hazard reduction, emergency readiness, response coordination and recovery. We provide a range of services from working with senior management in developing the plan, developing emergency procedures to training staff and testing the plan with live simulations.

Where plans and procedures are available, we tailor our training around your existing plans and procedures. Where they are not available, we teach staff industry best practise and assist you as required to develop plans and procedures.

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Emergency Procedures for Staff

These training packages ensures that staff (other than floor wardens) have a clear understanding of their responsibilities and actions expected of them in an event of an emergency which affects their building and its occupants. Training can vary from one to three hours duration depending on the needs of your organisation.

This is one effective way of developing a 'we' culture of safety within the organisation. A good way to develop interest amongst staff for taking up roles in response teams.

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EOC (Emergency Operations Centre) Development

For any person who is involved with the development of an Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) within their organisation.

We provide a range of consultancy services which support you as you develop your EOC. These include.

• The Role and purpose of an EOC
• Assessment of any existing EOC
• EOC requirements and location
• EOC Activation procedures
• Functions within an EOC
• Visiting operational EOC's
• Developing documentation and systems used within an EOC.
• Information flow within an EOC
• CIMS training for EOC staff

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Evacuation Chair Training

This training is aimed at Building wardens, Floor wardens or people who are have the responsibility of assisting people with disabilities from multi-storied buildings. Training will be tailored to your requirements and meet the requirements of the Fire Safety & Evacuation of Buildings Regulations 2006.

We work with you to ensure that you can safely evacuate people with disabilities using specially designed evacuation chairs as shown.

Where required we can supply evacuation chairs.

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Fire Extinguisher Training

This training package provides theoretical and practical training enabling course participants to take immediate and effective action against fire prior to the arrival of the Fire Service. In house training is the ideal location and a practical component off site enables participants to use extinguishers on live fires.

Training includes the use of extinguishers to ensure that staff have sufficient knowledge to meet their obligations under the legislative requirements of the Health & Safety in Employment Act 1992

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Fire Extinguisher Vehicle Fires

Train your staff to deal with a car fire.

This course is designed for corporate groups who have a fleet of work vehicles equipped with fire extinguishers. Train your staff to mangage a vehicle fire safely.

The course covers:

• Safety considerations when dealing with a vehicle fire.
• Assessing the situation.
• Traffic Hazards
• Fire Extinguishers
• Extinguishing a vehicle fire.
• Engine compartment based fires.
• Cabin compartment based fires.
• Different fuels e.g. Petrol, Diesel, LPG, CNG, Hybrid
• Practical on a real car fire.

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First Aid - Pre Hospital Emergency Care (PHEC) Training

This training involves forty hours class contact working through the four unit standards over five days and written work outside of the course. You need to have completed a Comprehensive First Aid course or a First Aid Refresher course prior to the course. Course resources will be provided. This course is run throughout the year.

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First Aid Courses

This two day comprehensive training package is both theoretical and practical. Courses are tailored to your workplace environment. Trainers hold qualifications as instructors in Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) by the New Zealand Resuscitation Council and hold Prehospital Emergency Care qualifications or above.

Devereux-Blum Training & Development Limited is accredited by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority under the provisions of the Education Act 1989 to provide training in unit standards 6400, 6401 and 6402.

View the following pdf's:  First Aid of Workplace - A Good Practice Guide and the DOL First Aid of Workplaces Fact Sheet. .

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First Aid Refreshers & CPR

This one day revalidation training package is for people who have completed a Comprehensive First Aid Certificate that has been issued by an approved provider within the previous two years. It meets the requirements of Occupational Safety and Health (issued under the provisions of the Factories and Commercial Premises (First Aid) Regulations 1985 Amendment 1). All trainers are qualified as instructors in Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) by the New Zealand Resuscitation Council.

We are accredited by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority under the provisions of the Education Act 1989 to provide training in unit standards 6400, 6401 and 6402.

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Flood Response Training

This course teaches people how to work in flooded environments and to position sandbags correctly to protect property from rising flood waters. Response teams work together in the design and construction of sand bag barriers. For more information on these courses, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

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Flood Safety Training

Devereux-Blum Training works with community based response teams to deliver the "Rapid" Flood Safety, Flood Response package. Around 74% of all Civil Defence declared emergencies are due to flooding highlighting a need to train response teams for flood conditions.

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Floor Warden Awareness - Fire Evacuation Procedures

This training package ensures that floor wardens and building wardens have a clear understanding of their responsibilities and actions expected of them in the event of an emergency which affects their building and its occupants. Content includes material on Fire Evacuation, Bomb threats, Earthquakes and Incident Management.

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Hazardous Substances

This training package covers the emergency procedures and planning around handling hazardous leaks and spills in the workplace. We assist in the development of procedures that meet legislative requirements. We work with staff to ensure they follow workplace emergency procedures when encountering spills or leaks and that controls are in place to manage identified hazards.

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Health and Safety in the Workplace

Training package are tailored to your needs. We provide targeted training for organisations that are working under the ACC partnership programme to ensure all staff are aware of their obligations under the Health & Safety in Employment Act 1992 . Need assistance with hazard identification, hazard management, accident investigation training or health and safety audits then contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Testimonials

·         Helping the team to realise times have changed and how their actions can have a big influence on our team.  TJ July 2009

 

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Heights Safety Training

Learn how to operate safely when working at heights. Falls from height remain one of the biggest causes of death, disability and injury in the workplace. This training is tailored to your needs to ensure that the dangers of working at height are understood and practical controls are put in place to manage the risks.

 

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Movement Control

This training course is intended for response personnel involved with the management of people and vehicular movement at a emergency event or incident. Also a course for those who may act in an operational support role at incidents.

 

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Pandemic Planning

Devereux-Blum training works with a variety of clients nationally to develop their capacity to effectivly manage the effects of a pandemic outbreak.

A considerable amount of preparations are in place throughout NZ to deal with pandemics.

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Radio Use Training

Radios are a useful communications tool in many emergency situations.

This fun course will teach your response teams how to effectively use radios to manage an emegency.

We can work woth your radios or bring our own and help you select appropriate radios to purchase.  

 

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Response and Preparedness in Disasters (RAPID)

RAPID stands for: Response and Preparedness in Disasters. RAPID offers a comprehensive training programme developed specifically to enhance the emergency response capability of communities. It is flexible and can be customised to suit your CDEM Group's needs. It provides the skills to give you confidence that you can give the best possible response, on the spot, on the day.

 

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RiverSafe Programme (ACC)

Devereux-Blum Training and Development Limited is the Wellington Training Provider for the ACC RiverSafe Programme. Water Safety New Zealand and ACC are aware that not all teachers who are EOTC leaders in schools have the experience required to lead river-based activities. WSNZ and ACC operate a programme where a selected number of EOTC providers from throughout the country have become accredited ACC RiverSafe providers.

 

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Simulations - Testing the Plan

Simulations provide you with an excellent opportunity to test the plan, policies and human elements in an emergency situation in a pre-planned, monitored and a safe environment. These simulations need to occur on an ongoing basis, testing different elements within an emergency plan. Simulations work with people, who after all, make it happen on the day.

Simulations can be Desk-top or simulated practical scenarios

See our featured article - "What happens when the big one strikes at work" in WEMO's On the Plate magazine.

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Storm Response

This training package covers the practical skills and knowledge required to carry out storm response activities.

Participants will cover:

• Performing improvised repairs to roofs, doors and windows following storm damage.
• Working safely in storm conditions
• Establishing safe and workable roof/heights safety systems
• Equipment requirements
• Working with ladders

We work with council response groups and community response groups throughout New Zealand. Ideal for those working in events like the recent tornadoes in Taranaki and the storms in Northland.

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Swiftwater Rescue

More people drown in rivers than in any other New Zealand aquatic environment.
During the 1990's 442 people drowned in New Zealand rivers. This equates to a third of all drownings.

80% of people who have drowned trying to cross rivers were trying to cross while the river was in flood.!

Would you know how to rescue someone in a fast flowing river?

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The following video clips show the risks and challenges involved in swiftwater rescue!!!

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Trial Evacuations

The training of Wardens is an essential part of safety within buildings. Devereux-Blum Training provides services relating to Trial Evacuations. Our staff have over twenty years operational experience as both front line firefighters and Fire Service training officers and can provide practical experience and current knowledge to assist wardens in this important role.

We provide training courses for Wardens and through attendance at evacuations can improve your response to evacuations through targeted training progammes.

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Urban Search and Rescue Training (USAR)

We deliver training to integrate General Rescue training with Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) to ensure workplace response teams are able to prepare the way for local response teams, New Zealand Task Force teams and International Rescue Teams that may follow. Our training incorporates the latest changes brought about by the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002.

See NZ Registered Response Teams in the USAR directory.

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