VR16 - Advanced Winching (heavy vehicle recovery)

VR16 covers recovering heavy commercial vehicles of 7500kg GVM and above from situations where a winch is required to place the casualty in a position from where it can be removed. It also covers the safety requirements of using a winch.
Learning Outcomes
• Health and safety requirements applicable to the use of heavy vehicle recovery winches
• Types of winch used in heavy vehicle recovery
• Winch theory
• Winch ropes in heavy vehicle recovery
• Ancillary equipment used when winching
• Winching resistances and calculations
• Increasing line pull/changing line direction
• Effects of casualty position or attitude on winching operation
• Righting an overturned vehicle
• Hand signals used to direct a winch operator
Practical Outcome
• The student will be able to demonstrate, the correct methods of calculating the loads, equipment requirements and lay-up of the equipment for a given recovery situation