The confined space rescue team designated by the AHJ to rescue victims from within confined spaces, including operational and technical levels of industrial, municipal, and private sector organizations. Note: All rescue services meet the following minimum requirements: (a) Each member of the rescue service is provided with, and trained to use properly, the personal protective equipment and rescue equipment necessary for making rescues from confined spaces according to his or her designated level of competency (b) Each member of the rescue service is trained to perform the assigned rescue duties corresponding to his or her designated level of competency. Each member of the rescue service also receives the training required of authorized rescue entrants, (c) Each member of the rescue service practices making confined space rescues by means of simulated rescue operations in which they remove dummies, mannequins, or persons from actual confined spaces or from representative confined spaces. Representative confined spaces should - with respect to opening size, configuration, and accessibility - simulate the types of confined spaces from which rescue is to be performed, (d) Each member of the rescue service is certified to the level of first responder or equivalent according to U. S. Department of Transportation (DOT) First Responder Guidelines. Each member of the rescue service also successfully completes a course in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) taught through the American Heart Association (AHA) to the level of a "Health Care Provider," through the American Red Cross (ARC) to the "CPR for the Professional Rescuer" level, or through the National Safety Council's equivalent course of study (e) The rescue service is capable of responding in a timely manner to rescue summons, (f) Each member of the rescue service is properly equipped, trained, and capable of functioning appropriately to perform confined space rescues within the area for which they are responsible at their designated level of competency. This must be confirmed by an annual evaluation of the rescue services capabilities to verify that the needed capabilities are present to perform confined space rescues in terms of overall timeliness, training, and equipment and to perform safe and effective rescue in those types of spaces to which the team must respond, (g) Each member of the rescue service is aware of the hazards they could confront when called on to perform rescue within confined spaces for which they are responsible, (h) If required to provide confined space rescue within U. S. federally regulated industrial facilities, the rescue service must have access to all confined spaces from which rescue could be necessary so that they can develop appropriate rescue plans and practice rescue operations according to their designated level of compe?tency. NFPA 1670, 1999 ed