SMR Winter Rigging training course

Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) represents25 Mountain Rescue Teams(MRTs) made up of highly trained volunteers who are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to respond to emergencies and carry out a specialist search and rescue service in the mountains and remote communities in Scotland to keep people safe and help people if and when they get into difficulty.

Scottish Mountain Rescue

To introduce attendees to the knowledge and skill required to create raising and lowering rescue
systems in winter conditions.

Carrbridge Hotel

<h3>Introduction</h3>Mountain Rescue Team members will acquire knowledge on how to keep safe on snow covered steep terrain and how to create access, rigging and rescue systems in winter conditions. This course is aimed at team members who can operate effectively on winter Grade 1 terrain and have completed the Rigging Practitioner Course or has equivalent knowledge and experience of technical rescue systems.

<h3>Course objectives</h3>By the end of the course, training will have been provided on:<ul><li>The strength and weaknesses of snowpack anchors</li><li>The hazards associated with the snowpack when constructing anchors</li><li>Construction of snow pack anchors</li><li>The advantages and disadvantages of a broad range of rigging systems and</li><li>equipment types</li><li>Appropriate rigging construction for lowering and raising systems in winter</li><li>System construction and management of multi-pitch lowers.</li></ul>

Accommodation:The course will be accommodated at The Carrbridge Hotel on a shared basis.There is no meal provided on Friday evening, so please make sure you have eaten before the course begins at 2000hours.On Saturday you will be given breakfast, packed lunch and dinner.On Sunday you will be given breakfast and packed lunch.Please ensure that you bring something to put your packed lunch in, as well as a drinking bottle, flask and any additional snacks you may want.

What you need to bring:All participants are requested to ensure they have transport arranged as the course programme will necessitate travel to and from training venues. Where possible we ask course participants to bring a team 4×4 vehicle.Sufficient personal equipment is required to enable candidates to operate within a mountainous and crag environment and in all weather conditions for the duration of the course.<ul><li>Full Winter Kit</li><li>4 Season Boots</li><li>Crampons</li><li>Ice Axe</li><li>Helmet</li><li>Harness</li><li>Head Torch</li><li>Transceiver</li><li>Snow Shovel</li><li>Probe</li><li>Team Radio + Spare Battery</li><li>Map of the Area</li></ul>

THE SMALL PRINT!Please speak to your Training Officer before booking this course to ensure it is relevant.Cancellation Policy:SMR reserves the right to charge a cancellation fee of £100 if failure to turn up to this course or a cancellation too late in which we cannot fill your space. This fee allows us to offset any costs which we will be incurred as a result of late cancellation. SMR Office will invoice directly to your Mountain Rescue team.If you have any questions about this course, please email bookings@scottishmountainrescue.org

<h3>Privacy Notice</h3>Other than trainer(s) and any accommodation provider for this course, Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) will not disclose your information to any company or person, except to help prevent fraud, or if required to do so by law. SMR believe that using your data in this manner is a legitimate interest.You have the right to see any information about you that SMR keep and you also have the right for this information to be deleted at any time. Send an email to info@scottishmountainrescue.org clearly stating you wish SMR to delete your details and we will do so within 10 working days.SMR will send you a feedback form shortly after the event and we are grateful for any feedback. Your feedback will be anonymised for the purposes of statistics and review of the training we deliver.Photographs may be taken at the event and may be used in publications or social media related to Scottish Mountain Rescue. We will seek consent prior to using photographs with recognisable faces. Where individuals are not facially recognisable we will use photographs without seeking consent.We will delete personally identifiable information collected in each financial year on April 1st each year for the financial year that commenced 4 years previously. For example in April 2023 we will delete all personally identifiable information collected in financial year 2019/20 and continue this process on a rolling annual basis. Any data we keep beyond that time for statistical and reference purposes will be anonymised.In the event of incident that requires medical treatment and completion of accident form we are required to retain this record for 7 years.For further information on Scottish Mountain Rescues' Privacy information please see http://www.scottishmountainrescue.org/privacy/

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