WEYBURN – A group of rig workers from the Weyburn area spent three days in courses at the Weyburn campus of Â鶹´«Ã½AVeast College over the weekend, learning about rig safety and the proper techniques for rescuing someone injured on a rig.
Dwayne Arneson, a contractor from Red Deer, Alta., was brought in to put on the Energy Safety Canada course designed for rig hands.
He first put on a 16-hour course on Friday and Saturday, involving workers from both service and drilling rigs, on safety protocols for ascending and descending from a rig.
He then put on an eight-hour course on rescue techniques on Sunday.
Both classes involved class time, going over the various techniques and safety protocols, and practical time on a training rig outside, putting those techniques into practice.
The students practiced a number of scenarios of how to rescue someone injured while up on a rig, with different techniques for safely getting the person down, and for raising or lowering a person from a rig.
