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Ronin
- Jul 12, 2020
- 4 min
Anchoring: The Realities of Self-Equalization
The terms “self-equalizing” and “load distributing” have often been used to describe anchor systems which are rigged in such a way that...
Ronin
- Mar 1, 2016
- 5 min
Rescue Training in Live Environments: My Experience Aboard the USSNC
For many Rescue Technicians, the opportunity to train in a real live environment isn’t something that happens everyday. We try to make...
Ronin
- Feb 28, 2016
- 3 min
Digitalization of Safety?
Ronin staff have provided rescue standby services on sites across the country. As part of this service we are frequently asked to...
Ronin
- Feb 25, 2016
- 4 min
Advancing Vertical Rescue in Australia: A Worldwide Fact Finding Report
In 2014 Scott Young received The David Balfour Churchill Fellowship to “advance fire fighter safety by studying overseas developments in...
Ronin
- Jan 4, 2016
- 10 min
RIT: Graduating From a Joke to Professionalism
It was a sunny warm morning around in July of 2001. One of those mornings, that it is great to live on the West Coast. Not too warm,...
Ronin
- Dec 12, 2015
- 3 min
The Other Side of Search and Rescue
When most hear the term SAR (Search and Rescue), they think of a group in brightly coloured jackets surrounding a lost hiker or a basket...
Ronin
- Dec 8, 2015
- 4 min
Confined Space Rescue Standby: Repairing a Water Leak Under the Skytrain
A few years ago, a Lower Mainland, BC, municipality undertook an initiative to better develop its confined space rescue capability. The...
Ronin
- Nov 21, 2015
- 5 min
Confined Space Suicide? Case Study
Many years ago I responded, as part of my fire department’s technical rescue team, to a confined space incident. The call was dispatched...
Ronin
- Nov 5, 2015
- 5 min
Technical Rope Rescue on a Lobster Boat
I was a Search and Rescue Technician in Greenwood, Nova Scotia, in 2012; a newly appointed Team Leader, meaning I was the ranking SAR...
Ronin
- Oct 23, 2015
- 11 min
8 Years Later: Line of Duty Death of Two Fellow Firefighters
On February 4, 2007, a structure fire in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was reported to 9-1-1. What was supposed to be an “ordinary” and “routine”...
Ronin
- Oct 22, 2015
- 5 min
Non-Viable Worker in a Tree: Case Study
Background A HIV and Hepatitis C positive arborist cut their brachial artery with a chainsaw 50’ up a tree that they had topped. As the...
Ronin
- Sep 23, 2015
- 1 min
World Wide HSE Consulting Case Study: Part 1
World Wide HSE Consulting In 2015 Ronin was approached by an international computer software company to create a solution to their HSE...
Ronin
- Aug 18, 2015
- 2 min
Rope Access in Grain Silos
When we arrived to assist a client with cleaning a grain silo – we were excited. The staff would be getting some Rope Access hours and no...