The Single Pitch Supervisor Award provides training and assessment for those who supervise single pitch traditional and sport rock climbing.

Entry requirements:

• Candidates must be at least 18 years old
• Candidates are required to demonstrate experience of the concepts covered in the Rock Climbing Skills course.

Training:

4 days

Assessment:

1 day. If the pupil can show extensive prior experience and competence during the course, the instructor may proceed directly into a RPL assessment.

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