When we first started flying the firemen out, in the '90's, from Manston then Wattisham the only thing that needed sorting were the autoinflate jackets, (for safe evac on ditching). The rest of the kit we just secured down. Dangerous Air Cargo? Who cared...it was a mil operation!
We were also flying the bomb disposal guys out to trawlers with fished up WW2 mines....They had loads of explosive DAC goodies with them on the helo.
We also had another interesting task at that time........
....mid '90's there were a lot of flights staging through Uk from somewhere to somewhere else ........landing quite close to Wattisham. In event of a crash landing and release of a "dust cloud" down wind, the duty crew were to fly the good old SAR Seaking through said downwind area with a small funny box we would be given at the crash site. The op order then gave us a remote landing area where we were to "leave" the Seaking and wait to be collected.
It didn't say what would happen to the crew (or the Seaking)!
Dont suppose such ops would be factored into SAR-H!