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Instructions for helping someone else

Person in a well, tank or confined space

What to do

  1. Do not climb down or enter to rescue without specialist training and equipment.
  2. Call firefighters. Report well/tank and whether responsive. Speak from outside.
  3. At work: activate the trained rescue team and plan as well as emergency services. No improvised rope or extraction. Do not become a second casualty.
  4. Give exact location, known depth, water/grain, injuries and breathing changes. No phone: call out or tap to signal. No entering or blind climbing.
  5. Unresponsive or submerged: extreme urgency, but stay out. Do not lean inside or descend for CPR. Request technical rescue. Provide care after safe extraction.

What to avoid

  1. Do not rely on smell or an ordinary mask for entry.
Entrapping grain or loadFall: possible spinal injuryAfter safe extraction: assessAfter safe extraction: drowning