ASTM F3098-16

Standard Guide for Training of Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Member

SIGNIFICANCE AND USE
4.1 This guide establishes the minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities that a person must have to perform as a Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Member. No other skills are included or implied.  
4.2 Every person who is identified as a Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Member shall have met the requirements of this guide.  
4.3 This guide is to be used by individuals and agencies having jurisdiction that wish to identify the minimum training required for a Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Member.  
4.3.1 The AHJ shall determine the depth or detail of training required to meet these needs.  
4.3.2 Though this guide establishes the minimum standard of training, it does not imply that a Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Member is a “trainee,” “probationary,” or other similar term member of a team, organization, or agency.  
4.3.3 Determining the requirements and qualifications for non-wilderness land search team members is the responsibility of the AHJ.  
4.3.4 Nothing in this guide precludes an AHJ from adding additional requirements for its own members.  
4.4 This guide can be used to evaluate a document or training program to determine if its content includes the topics necessary for training individuals to operate as a Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Member.  
4.5 This guide does not stand alone and must be used with the referenced documents to provide the specific information needed by a Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Member or AHJ.  
4.6 This guide by itself is not a training document. It is an outline of the topics required for training or evaluating a Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Member.  
4.7 This guide can be used to evaluate a book or other document to determine if its content includes the information required for training a Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Member. Likewise, the guide can be used to evaluate an existing training program to see if it meets the requirements of this guide.  
4.8 The knowledge, skills and abilities defined in this guide ...
SCOPE
1.1 This guide establishes the minimum training requirements for non-wilderness land search personnel as it relates to their general, field, and search specific knowledge and skills.  
1.2 A Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Member searches on the surface of the land in non-wilderness areas only, including urban or disaster areas that may be isolated or have lost supporting infrastructure, in accordance with the limits identified in the Scope of this Guide.  
1.3 This guide does not provide the minimum training requirements for searching in wilderness areas, partially or fully collapsed structures, in or on water, in confined spaces, or underground (such as caves, mines, and tunnels).  
1.4 Personnel trained only to this guide are not qualified to perform rescue.  
1.4.1 Basic rescue skills and knowledge are found in Guide F2751.  
1.5 Personnel trained only to this guide are not qualified to operate in leadership positions.  
1.6 Human land SAR resources that may utilize personnel trained to this guide are classified in Classification F1993.  
1.6.1 Individuals trained to this guide are qualified to operate on teams or crews classified as Category – Land Search of Kind Non-Wilderness.  
1.6.2 Further training may be required before Non-Wilderness Land Search personnel may participate on particular Category or Kind of SAR resource, depending on local needs, regulations, or policies of the authority having jurisdiction.  
1.7 Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Members are not qualified to work around, or ride in, helicopters without helicopter safety training.  
1.8 Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Members shall know the safety precautions and procedures to be employed when working around still and swift water in the normal area of operations.  
1.8.1 Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Members are not qualified to participate in swift water operations.  
1.9 Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Members are not qualified to ...

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 30-Jun-2016
• ICS: 13.200 - Accident and disaster control
• Technical Committee: F32 - Search and Rescue
• Drafting Committee: F32.03 - Personnel, Training and Education

Relations

• Refers: ASTM F1767-14 - Standard Guide for Forms Used for Search and Rescue
• Effective Date: 01-Jul-2014
• Refers: ASTM F1767-14(2020) - Standard Guide for Forms Used for Search and Rescue
• Effective Date: 01-Apr-2020
• Refers: ASTM F3071-14(2020) - Standard Guide for Basic Wilderness GPS/GNSS Use (GPS/GNSS-IW) Endorsement
• Effective Date: 01-Apr-2020
• Refers: ASTM F1773-09(2015) - Standard Terminology Relating to Climbing, Mountaineering, Search and Rescue Equipment and Practices
• Effective Date: 01-Dec-2015
• Refers: ASTM F3193-16 - Standard Guide for Training of a Land Search and Rescue Team Leader
• Effective Date: 01-Jun-2016
• Refers: ASTM F2047-00(2019) - Standard Practice for Workers’ Compensation Coverage of Emergency Services Volunteers
• Effective Date: 01-Apr-2019
• Referred By: ASTM F1993-16(2022) - Standard Classification System of Human Land Search and Rescue Resources
• Effective Date: 01-Jul-2016
• Referred By: ASTM F3222-16 - Standard Terminology Relating to F32 Land Search and Rescue Standards and Guides
• Effective Date: 01-Jul-2016

Standards Content (Sample)

This international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization established in the Decision on Principles for the
Development of International Standards, Guides and Recommendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.
Designation: F3098 − 16
Standard Guide for
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Training of Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Member
This standard is issued under the fixed designation F3098; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (´) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
1. Scope 1.8.1 Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Members are not
qualified to participate in swift water operations.
1.1 This guide establishes the minimum training require-
ments for non-wilderness land search personnel as it relates to
1.9 Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Members are not
their general, field, and search specific knowledge and skills.
qualifiedtoperformfieldnavigationand,therefore,shallnotbe
deployed where that skill is required unless supervised in the
1.2 ANon-Wilderness Land Search Team Member searches
field by qualified personnel trained in accordance with the
on the surface of the land in non-wilderness areas only,
provisions of Guides F2209, F2685, F2751,or F3193.
including urban or disaster areas that may be isolated or have
lost supporting infrastructure, in accordance with the limits
1.10 Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Members may be
identified in the Scope of this Guide.
deployed on local incidents as determined by the AHJ.
1.3 This guide does not provide the minimum training
1.11 This standard does not purport to address all of the
requirements for searching in wilderness areas, partially or
safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the
fully collapsed structures, in or on water, in confined spaces, or
responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-
underground (such as caves, mines, and tunnels).
priate safety and health practices and determine the applica-
1.4 Personnel trained only to this guide are not qualified to
bility of regulatory limitations prior to use.
perform rescue.
1.4.1 Basic rescue skills and knowledge are found in Guide
2. Referenced Documents
F2751.
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2.1 ASTM Standards:
1.5 Personnel trained only to this guide are not qualified to
F1633 Guide for Techniques in Land Search
operate in leadership positions.
F1767 Guide for Forms Used for Search and Rescue
1.6 Human land SAR resources that may utilize personnel
F1773 Terminology Relating to Climbing, Mountaineering,
trained to this guide are classified in Classification F1993.
Search and Rescue Equipment and Practices
1.6.1 Individuals trained to this guide are qualified to
F1993 Classification System of Human Search and Rescue
operate on teams or crews classified as Category – Land
Resources
Search of Kind Non-Wilderness.
F2047 Practice for Workers’ Compensation Coverage of
1.6.2 Further training may be required before Non-
Emergency Services Volunteers
Wilderness Land Search personnel may participate on particu-
F2209 Guide for Training of Land Search Team Member
lar Category or Kind of SAR resource, depending on local
F2685 Guide for Training of a Land Search Team Leader
needs, regulations, or policies of the authority having jurisdic-
(STL)
tion.
F2751 Guide for Training of a Land Search and Rescue
1.7 Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Members are not
Team Member
qualified to work around, or ride in, helicopters without
F2890 Guide for Hazard Awareness for Search and Rescue
helicopter safety training.
Personnel
F3071 Guide for Basic Wilderness GPS/GNSS Use (GPS/
1.8 Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Members shall
GNSS-IW) Endorsement
know the safety precautions and procedures to be employed
F3193 Guide for Training of a Land Search and Rescue
when working around still and swift water in the normal area
Team Leader
of operations.
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This guide is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee F32 on Search and
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Rescue and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee F32.03 on Personnel, For referenced ASTM standards, visit the ASTM website, www.astm.org, or
Training and Education. contact ASTM Customer Service at [e-mail]. For Annual Book of ASTM
Current edition approved July 1, 2016. Published July 2016. DOI: 10.1520/ Standards volume information, refer to the standard’s Document Summary page on
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2.2 Other Document: 4.3.2 Though this guide establishes the minimum standard
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