SOUTH AFRICAN MOUNTAIN TRAINING STANDARDS

Single Pitch Supervisor Award

SPSA
Instruction Duration:
4 days
Consolidation Period:
3 months
Assessment Duration:
1 day

The award covers:

  • Equipment usage and care
  • Lead climbing of trad routes
  • Lead climbing of sport routes
  • Belay techniques
  • Bolted and trad anchor systems
  • Basic understanding of Fall factors and impact forces in the safety chain
  • Group supervision
  • Releasable and retrievable abseils
  • Ascending the rope
  • Hauling systems and stuck climbers
  • Escaping the system
  • Rope types and uses
  • Emergency Procedures
  • MDT and NQF training and qualification structure and skills
  • Scope and remit of the qualification

The award does not cover:

  • The skills needed to approach and retreat from mountain crags
  • Access to any location where escape is not easily possible from the top and the bottom of a climb
  • Multi-pitch rock climbing and it’s supervision

Other Supervisor Awards

Courses (and associated assessment) aimed at the abseiling, hiking and rock climbing supervisor responsible for group activities.

Courses are designed to flow in a complimentary system toward each level. Some systems (R.I.A / K.I.A) require additional modules as their scope of operation overlaps with those programs. For example a Rock or Kloofing Instructor requires Walking Group Leader as a supplement. Likewise an M.I.A can have Kloofing exclusion.

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