Ancap app to help crash responses

Emergency service crews are set to benefit from a new app developed by Ancap to protect workers in the frontline and help them provide faster care to crash victims.

The Ancap Rescue app features an array of safety information and possible hazards for more than 500 vehicles available across Australia and New Zealand.

Created by Australasia’s leading independent vehicle safety authority, the app boasts a dossier of rescue sheets that emergency personnel can quickly access at the scene of an accident. It has simple illustrations of models and highlights potentially hazardous elements such as fuel tanks, high-voltage batteries and airbag inflators.

“With the support of vehicle manufacturers, the Ancap Rescue app compiles the rescue sheets for more than 500 vehicle models into a central, digital resource,” says Rhianne Robson, Ancap director – communications and advocacy. “This is part of our broadening safety focus to minimise post-crash risks.

Providing our fire and rescue, police and ambulance officers the tools to identify known hazards will improve response time and help reduce some of the risks they face on the job each day.

“This will become increasingly important with the anticipated growth in hybrid, electric and alternative-powered vehicle models.”

The app was launched by Ancap and Michael McCormack, Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development,  on June 18.

“If you’re involved in a crash, the information contained within the Ancap Rescue app will allow emergency service officers – those who put their lives at risk responding to road crashes each day – to safely and more efficiently get to you and provide the help that is needed,” McCormack says.

The Ancap Rescue app is available to all New Zealand and Australian emergency service agencies for free from the App Store and Google Play.