Search & Rescue

JIBC’s comprehensive series of Search & Rescue courses will benefit any organization across Canada looking to implement a new Search & Rescue model or further develop their SAR team.

Search & Rescue is the lifeline of emergency response. Whether it's searching for a lost hiker or leading a full-scale avalanche response, SAR personnel are integral to people, communities and organizations.

Our comprehensive series of SAR courses will help you introduce an effective SAR support model for your community or organization. Some of the specific topics include:

• Search & rescue management
• Team leadership and wilderness survival
• Ground search, rope rescue and avalanche response
• Hypothermia and response

• SAR100 - Ground Search & Rescue
• SAR102 - Introduction to Search and Rescue in British Columbia
• SAR111 - Ground Search Team Leader
• SAR150 - Avalanche Skills for Search and Rescue
• SAR 151 - Organized Avalanche Response Team Members 
• SAR172 - Wilderness Survival
• SAR300/301 - Rope Rescue Team Course/Evaluation
• SAR310/311 - Rope Rescue Team Leader Course/Evaluation
• SAR181 - Search & Rescue Management
• SAR182 - Search & Rescue Management Current Practices
• MR110 - Hypothermia and Frostbite
• RCMP SAR Management Distance Learning Presentation

JIBC Search & Rescue courses are available on-site at your location anywhere across Canada or internationally. Because you pick the location, you save on transportation and accommodation costs, time away from work, and productivity gaps. We come to you whether it's at your office, a conference centre or a hotel meeting room. Or you can choose to have the course delivered at one of our campuses. Some courses are also available online. 

Note that the training schedule below is for registered SAR volunteers in BC only. If you are not a registered SAR volunteer, please contact us for contract training.

2012-2013 SAR Training Schedule

BCSARA Provincial Expense Reimbursement Form

BCSARA Regional Expense Reimbursement Form

SAR Application Form

Attention SAR Managers, Planners and Field Team Leaders: the new and revised Romer Card is now available.

This quick and easy reference tool provides invaluable navigational and planning tools right at your fingertips.

Key Benefits: Small enough to fit in any pocket, measuring in at 98 x 148mm Durable and weatherproof with heavy duty lamination Easy to find with a bright green colour Easy to read with improved clarity and larger type size

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Key Features:

• UTM romers for 1:50,000 and 1:20,000 scale maps
• Slope indicators for reading slope angle from contour line spacing for:
  • 1:50,000 scale: 20m, 100' and 40m contour intervals
  • 1:20,000 scale: 20m contour intervals
• Latitude/longitude scale for minutes and seconds, 1:50,000 scale maps
• Scale for 1:20,000 scale maps
• List of standardized ICS map symbols and colours for SAR
• NEW added a compass rose
• NEW added a decimal-minutes scale to the latitude/longitude scale

The Romer Card is available from the JIBC Store at a cost of $4 each, plus shipping and handling and applicable taxes. Contact the JIBC Store.