We shook off the New Year and Christmas endulgences with our annual training day at Total Access (UK) Limited's training centre, Eccleshall. This year a number of scenarios were set-up in their excellent training area, where we were able to practice rigging a tyrolean traverse, stretcher hauling and recovering a casualty from an artificial cave.
Above: Practicing hauling a stretcher on a Tyrolean traverse at Total Access, Eccleshall, Staffordshire.


Above and below: Team members rescuing a stretcher casualty from an artificial cave.


Below: Moving a stretcher across a 'void' in the Total Access training area.


Team members getting to grips with the newly purchased Slix 100 stretcher.

Warden, Graham Smith leads a workshop on hauling and rigging techniques.
Pictures: John Smith