For over 100 years, MRS Training & Rescue (formerly known as Mines Rescue Service), has developed specialist skills, experience and knowledge gained from working in difficult and potentially dangerous environments, to affect the rescue and escape of mine workers from underground.
Following the closure of the last deep coal mine in December 2015, the company has diversified and expanded to meet the needs of today’s health and safety market. Using wealth of expertise in underground mining, today they provide unique rescue and training services for many sectors in the UK and overseas, including nuclear, aerospace, manufacturing, and utilities.
MRS Training & Rescue’s latest venture is opening a state-of-the-art purpose-built training facility in lnverkeithing, Fife, to complement its long-standing facility in Crossgates. The new center will offer bespoke training for Working at Height and Confined Spaces – two fundamental requirements for Scotland’s critical sectors (including renewables, oil & gas and construction). Both training courses will feature our manikins to deliver ultra-realistic practical training environments.
Julie Wilson, Marketing Manager at MRS Training & Rescue says:
“In our high-risk rescue and recovery from confined spaces training, we train candidates on the scenario of recovering a casualty from a hazardous environment through an area that has restricted access. For example, there may be an unconscious casualty requiring a stretcher that has to be removed safely using other access equipment like winches and tripods etc, being manoeuvred through restricted spaces such as a vertical lift through a manhole.”
“We have used Ruth Lee manikins for well over 25 years and counting! The manikins are safer to use than live casualties.”
“They are also very realistic as they are weighted to make them feel like a real person – so we can create very realistic training and rescue scenarios.”
MRS Training & Rescue’s new facility is open now in lnverkeithing, Fife in Scotland. Visit https://www.mrsl.co.uk/news/new-training-centre-opens-fife for more information or follow them on social media on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin.
