This topic is new to me, but I stumbled across this method of team shoveling and I thought it was a good read. Remember this one if there are a lot of shovels at a search site:
www.ikar-cisa.org/ikar-cisa/documents/20...ar20080406000196.pdf
Excerpt:
[size=10pt]Observations considering uncoordinated shoveling
Statistics and video analysis clearly show how
often rescuers stepped all over the top of the buried
victim as well as got in each other’s way, resulting in
diminished efficiency for excavation.
Onset of fatigue was rapid, and work was interrupted
for everyone while exchanging a shoveler. With increasing
burial depth, not all rescuers could be utilized.[/size]
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