Public Release of the New ERCA Training Syllabus
We would like to raise everybody’s awareness to the public release of the revised version (July 2022) of the ERCA training syllabus. The full document is now publicly available. This syllabus provides information for training on permanent and temporary ropes courses. The syllabus describes course aims and objectives, content, methods of teaching, course duration, as well as assessment criteria. Mobile ropes courses are not covered within the current syllabus.
Inspection Quiz: The Solution!
Thank you to everybody who took the inspection quiz. On this occasion, collective wisdom did not fully provide the correct answer: 12 out of 23 responses correctly identified the cause of the damage as eating or chewing animals. Specifically Squirrels (view…
Congrats to four new ERCA-Certified Adventure Park Trainers
For the very first time a Train-the-Trainer assessment took place outside of continental Europe. The desert surrounding in the United Arab Emirates with its climate was a new thing to cope with for running an assessment. However, all candidates, Jim as master…
High Season for Train-the-Trainer Courses
It is a pleasure for us to see a great example of community exchange whilst the 'Module 1' courses. Last week 7 trainer candidates from 7 different companies attended in the United Kingdom for the field of traditional ropes courses. Later this week another…
Capstone Inspections Ltd re-joined ERCA as inspection body
We welcome back Capstone Inspections Ltd. as an ERCA member as well as an ERCA-certified inspection body. The audit procedure for the inspection certification took place in between early summer and the summer break. Since end of August Capstone Inspections…
Don't miss out: Webinar "Mental First Aid"
On 14.11.2024 from 17pm until 19pm UK time we run this webinar in cooperation with Outdoorschule Süd e.V.. Content: The topic of mental health first aid is becoming increasingly important in our working environment. This training course is about…
Inspectors Meeting: Report & Community Quiz
During the inspectors meeting a great variety of topics was covered and there was an excellent exchange on practical inpection cases. To give the community one example, we would like to share a picture with you from one of the inspected items and would like…