PMI is a manufacturer of life safety rope and equipment for professionals, and our CEO Loui McCurley has been personally involved with these NFPA standards since the early 1990’s. In any case, if you’re a professional rescuer, the NFPA 2500 document is something you will want to become familiar with. NFPA 1006 – Professional Qualifications for Technical Rescuers – is still a separate document, but the 10 committees have worked VERY hard to try to harmonize the Professional Qualifications requirements with Organizational Training requirements. This standard combines what used to be three separate documents… NFPA 1983 (which was equipment focused) NFPA 1858 (which provided selection use and care information) and NFPA 1670 (which outlines team competency for Technical Rescue.) This new consolidated standard, now known as NFPA 2500, actually contains the substance of all three of those documents. You can get your very own copy by reaching out to the National Fire Protection association in Quincy Massachusetts – by phone, 80 or order it online at. Now, the volume pertaining to Operations and Training for Technical Search and Rescue Incidents and Life Safety Rope and Equipment for Emergency Services has just been released.

Last year PMI shared a message to make you aware that NFPA was going through a process of consolidating related standards into volumes. Up to now, if you were interested in an NFPA standard you might have purchased a standard that was somewhere around 40 pages long, and it would contain requirements, test methods, labeling, and other standards-speak. Actually, it’s more than a “little” thing, its more like 237 pages worth of a big thing! If you are an Emergency Services Responder – especially if you are affiliated with the fire service – here’s a little something you might be interested in knowing about. The following article is from Loui McCurley, CEO of Pigeon Mountain Industries.

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