Avalanche Safety Course
What will I learn?
Get proper knowledge about how to stay safe from avalanches with our full Avalanche Safety Training. This training is made for people who work in sports and want to improve their skills in dangerous snowy places. You will learn the basics of how avalanches happen, how to understand the weather, and how to know if there is a risk of avalanche so you can make good decisions when you are in areas where avalanches can happen. Learn how to use safety tools well, make plans for when things go wrong, and do rescue work. Make your team communication and safety rules stronger so you are ready and confident in any snowy area.
Develop skills
Enhance the practical skills listed below
Know how avalanches form: Understand the different types of avalanches and what causes them, so you can stay safe.
Understand weather and how it affects avalanches: Use your understanding of the weather to guess when avalanches are likely to happen.
Do rescue work properly: Know how to do emergency rescue work well.
Check for avalanche risk: Be able to look at the land and guess how dangerous it is accurately.
Use safety equipment well: Be able to use transceivers and other safety gear properly.
Suggested summary
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours
Before beginning, feel free to change 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 akin to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.