ARCTIC SAFETY TRAINING COURSE
This course is suitable for expedition leaders, teachers or instructors with plans or aspirations to lead expeditions in cold weather environments as well as those with previous arctic experience who wish to brush up on current good practice.
DAY ONE - ARCTIC SAFETY
Topics include health and safety in the arctic environment, hazards and risk assessment, equipment selection, cold weather survival, medical issues such as frostbite and arctic navigation.
DAY TWO - OPERATING IN COLD WEATHER ENVIRONMENTS
Topics include the finer points of living in cold weather environments together with considerations for planning expeditions and leading groups in the environment.
Day two considers more practical skills and look in detail at the practicalities of setting up base camps, safety equipment and transportation as well as the wider picture of emergency planning. This course is facilitated by experience arctic warfare instructors.
