Water & Flood Awareness
The starting point and basic training for flood rescue teams, emergency services and local councils.
A half day course focusing on water awarness and the basics of rescues, it aligns with DEFRA Module One.
Accredited by Rescue 3 Europe
Water & Flood Awareness - DEFRA MOD 1
The course & Who its for!
A classroom-based course, designed to provide personnel who may be working near water with sufficient knowledge to be aware of the hazards created by this environment, and develop an understanding of water rescue techniques. The Water and Flood Awareness course is for those supporting rescue teams.
Course content includes
- Rescue 3 philosophy
- Training standards
- Best practice guidelines for water rescue
- Hydrology and water hazards
- Personal equipment
- Technical and team equipment
- Pre-planning
- Risk assessments
- Incident size-up considerations
- Incident management and site control
- Medical and decontamination considerations
- Considerations for night/poor visibility operations
- Mud, ice and unstable surface considerations
- Communications
- Accidental immersion considerations
- Floodwater dynamics and hazards
- Flood theory
- Dry land practice of conditional rescues – talk, reach, throw
Course Dates 2026
Dates & Prices coming soon!
Email info@medicalwatersafety.co.uk to express interest.
Location
This training is run from our base at Harleyford Marina on the River Thames.
The course is mainly classroom based but we do have 1 or 2 exercises outside.
Pre-Requests
There is no prerequisites for this course but a good understanding of English is an advantage