Disaster and Emergency Safety Skills Training

 The University of Southern Philippines Foundation NSTP class attended the Disaster and Emergency Safety Skills Training spearheaded by Rescue 177 Corps of Instructions Representative last February 10, 2017 at the University covered court area.

USPF Senior High School students and USPF NSRC members also attended the said training. It started with a lecture on Basic Bandaging Technique, High angle Rescue, Rappelling, CPR, and Emergency Rescue transfer or ERT.

After the lecture the students were split into several groups for the simulation and application of what we have learned from the lecture. The first simulation was rappelling wherein we were taught the different ways to descend from the building going down. We were taught the parts of the harness and how to use it properly.

Some of the students were nervous, some were excited and some even refused to try the rappelling simulation due to acrophobia or fear of heights. Yet everyone must try because all simulation was graded.

Second simulation was the Emergency Rescue Transfer. We had a demonstration on how to transfer a victim with and without the stretcher, though the one who played the victim was heavy it was a total fun and informative training.

Third and last simulation was how to do the CPR or cardiopulmonary resuscitation. We were taught the proper to do it to the victim in case of cardiac arrest or whenever the victim’s heart stopped pumping on its own. We do the simulation wherein there was the one who played the victim and the rescuer and vice versa.

It was very intensive training that our strength was almost drained to the lowest level, tiresome, yes, but it was all worth it! It was very informative and indeed very useful to us because we may never know when these emergency will happen to us and we must be prepared and ready at all times.


Thank you Rescue 177 corps!