Avalanche Safety Course
What will I learn?
Learn all the main things about avalanche safety with our complete Avalanche Safety Training. This training is for people who work in sports and want to get better at keeping themselves and others safe in places where avalanches happen. We'll teach you about how avalanches form, how to understand the weather and know when an avalanche is likely, and how to figure out how dangerous a place is. You'll learn how to use important safety tools, make plans for when things go wrong, and how to help people if there's an avalanche. We'll also help you talk to your team better and follow safety rules so you can be ready and feel sure of yourself in any snowy place.
Apoia's Unique Features
Develop skills
Enhance your practical skills in the areas listed below.
Know how avalanches start: Learn about the different kinds of avalanches and what makes them happen so you can stay safe.
Understand how weather affects avalanches: Learn how to use the weather to guess when an avalanche might happen.
Know how to do a rescue: Learn how to quickly and correctly help people in an emergency.
Figure out how dangerous a place is: Be able to look at the land and know how likely an avalanche is.
Use safety tools: Learn how to use things like avalanche beacons and other gear the right way.
Suggested summary
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours
Before starting, you can modify the chapters and the workload.
- Choose which chapter to start with
- Add or remove chapters
- Increase or decrease the course workload
Examples of chapters you can add
You will be able to generate more chapters like the examples below
This is a free course, focused on personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but it offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.