New Vehicle Safety Systems for the Rescuer

 

An education and training video
What you need to know about today's high-tech vehicle safety systems, construction materials, how to deal with them during rescue operations.
This 40-minute educational and training video graphically illustrates the latest vehicle safety systems that are now being incorporated into foreign and domestic automobiles.  While these systems improve driver and passenger chances for surviving accidents, they can make rescue operations much more complicated and even hazardous.

You'll learn rules of thumb for determining which cars have which systems.  You'll be able to recognize which cars have the latest high-tech construction materials.  You'll also learn new extrication techniques for performing rescues from today's modern cars.  This information will help you perform your job more effectively and more safely too.
  • Exciting footage of crash tests by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  • How race car technology has found its way into today' s passenger cars
  • Comments by renowned safety experts and rescue personnel
  • Learn all about today's automobiles and how the latest construction methods, materials, and safety systems impact efforts.

New Extrication Methods
The latest procedures and techniques for extricating victims from modern cars.

Battery Technology
Location of electrical system components and their role in activating safety systems.

Vehicle Structure and Frame Materials
Carbon fibers, alloys, and composite materials, and how they resist rescue efforts.

Supplemental Restraint Systems
Explosively activated safety systems and how they work.

Vehicle Fires
The effect of fires on explosively activated safety systems.

 

Note:  VHS NTSC format only.
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