Seatbelt Pretensioner Systems PowerPoint

Description

This is a 7-slide NFPA 1006 Awareness and Operations-level PowerPoint program that addresses procedures of interest for rescue and primarily medical personnel as they work to determine if one or more seatbelt pretensioner systems are present and if there has been a deployment or not.

Identifying the presence of a seatbelt pretensioner, even those that tighten and then reset themselves, is every technical rescuers’ responsibility.  Pretensioner systems by themselves though are not really extrication challenges.  The presence of and operation of a pretensioner is really an EMS concern as much as any.  For rescuers, to free the patient by undoing the seatbelt or cutting it is typically sufficient.

Further information about several different types of pretensioner systems is found on page 148 in the Vehicle Rescue 1-2-3 book.

This PowerPoint program includes all the images from page 148 and on each slide is a text box that contains the two or three sentences that appear with that image in the book.

There are also Presenter/Instructor ‘Notes’ for the slides with fundamental training tips, recommendations, advice on presenting the info, and more.