R501-8-8. Staff Training

(1) The program shall provide a minimum of eighty hours initial staff training.

(2) Initial staff training shall not be considered completed until the staff have demonstrated to the field director proficiency in each of the following:

(a) counseling, teaching and supervisory skills,

(b) water, food, and shelter procurement, preparation and conservation,

(c) low impact wilderness expedition and environmental conservation skills and procedures,

(d) consumer management, including containment, control, safety, conflict resolution, and behavior management,

(e) instruction in safety procedures and safe equipment use; fuel, fire, life protection, and related tools,

(f) instruction in emergency procedures; medical, evacuation, weather, signaling, fire, runaway and lost consumers,

(g) sanitation procedures; water, waste, food, etc.,

(h) wilderness medicine, including health issues related to acclimation, exposure to the environment, and environmental elements,

(i) CPR, standard first aid, first aid kit contents and use, and wilderness medicine,

(j) navigation skills, including map and compass use and contour and celestial navigation,

(k) local environmental precautions, including terrain, weather, insects, poisonous plants, response to adverse situations and emergency evacuation,

(l) leadership and judgment,

(m) report writing, including development and maintenance of logs and journals, and

(n) Federal, state, and local regulations, including Department of Human Services, Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Service, National Parks Service, Utah State Department of Fish and Game.

(3) The completion of the minimum eighty hours initial staff training shall be documented and maintained in each personnel file.

(4) The field director shall document in each personnel file that the staff have demonstrated proficiency in each of the required topic areas as listed in (2). above.

(5) The initial staff training and demonstration of proficiency must be completed and documented before the staff person may count in the staff consumer ratio.

(6) The program shall also provide on-going training to staff in order to improve proficiency in knowledge and skills, and to maintain certifications. This training shall also be documented.