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SCOPE
The PTGA Crevasse Awareness & Management qualification is a preventative management and awareness course for all staff involved in land and shore excursions where snow/ice glide cracks, tide cracks, bergschrunds, and crevasses are known hazards at specific sites. It is a general education, hazard awareness, disclosure, and crowd control skills syllabus intended only for known site-specific hazards and for people working under a suitably experienced or qualified guide/staff member. It is intended as a knowledge and attendance course, not a performance assessment.
PREREQUISITES
Nil
CROSS CREDIT
Any internationally recognized qualifications that include these components to the level of the Scope or higher. See Cross Credit Matrices.
SPECIAL NOTES
i. For this document snow/ice glide cracks, tide cracks, bergschrunds, and glacial crevasses are simply known as ‘crevasses’. It is currently beyond the scope of the PTGA to train and qualify people for the skills and experience required to access these features, make judgments regarding their suitability for guided use or perform a complex rescue in crevassed terrain. Many international qualifications train and examine people to this level. Companies should hire personnel with suitable external qualifications.
ii. Organizations that train, examine, and qualify people to travel/rescue in crevassed terrain include any qualifications program that has a publicly available syllabus, and performance examines candidates in crevasse travel and crevasse rescue.
iii. The PTGA differentiates between mountain/glacial terrain where the location and extent of crevasses are unknown and unknowable, and site-specific bergschrunds and crevasses which are known to exist in the same place from year to year and whose parameters (depth, width, and structure) are understood by qualified or experienced guides and deemed to be manageable.
iv. The PTGA expects that anyone whose role includes site assessment, judgment and decision-making for excursions that are known to have bergschrunds or crevasses should have higher levels of experience or qualifications and should carry appropriate equipment and know how to use it.
v. Element 3 extraction does not imply someone has ‘fallen’ in a crack. It is extraction awareness for someone who may have put their leg through and are unable to extract themselves.
