VR07 is about recovering light vehicles from situations where a winch is required to place the casualty in a position from where it can be removed. It also covers the safety requirements of using a winch.
Learning Outcomes
- Health and safety requirements applicable to the use of winches on light vehicle recovery units
- Types of winch used in light vehicle recovery
- Outline winch theory
- Types of winch ropes used in light vehicle recovery
- Ancillary equipment used when winching
- Winching resistances and calculations
- Methods used in increasing line pull/changing line direction
- Effects of the casualty position or attitude on the winching operation
- Methods used to right an overturned light vehicle
- Hand signals used to direct a winch operator
Practical Outcome
- The student will be able to demonstrate that they can calculate the effort required and prepare the site, casualty and equipment required to winch a vehicle from a given situation, “using a change of direction for mechanical advantage
