Key Standards

- Participant minimum Age: 18 years.
- Maximal Student / Instructor Ratio:  6:1 (indoor), 4:1 (outdoor).
- Minimum Instructor Level: Authorized IRAA* Rope Access Level 3 in teaching status .
   * or equivalent.
- Course location: Certified IRAA Education Center.
- Course duration: 5 Weeks 
      Week 1-2: Homework and preparation
                                                                                                                   Week 3:     4 full days course
                                                                                                                   Week 4-5: Training
                                                                                                                   Week 5:      Exam
                                                                                                                   Theory can be completed in classroom, online and/or hybrid. 
                                                                                                             - Written Theory Exam: Yes
                                                                                                             - Practical Exam: Yes

Minimum Performance Requirements

Theory
- Legal basics
- PPE against fall equipment
- 4P Check
- Planning of works at height by applying the PEAC approach
- Fall mechanisms (danger of a pendulum falling, falling from a working position, fall space)
- Correct choice of attachment points
- The "STOP! in case of danger" philosphy 
- Medical aspects
- Planning and equipment choice for Rescues

- Analysis of risks and risk mitigation

- 12 basic knots

Practical applications:
- Correct use of 12 basic knots in all working situations
- Ascent techniques
- Abseiling techniques - with and without commercial descender
- Emergency descent without commercial descender
- Rope extension and rope crossing
- Rope changes and horizontal manoeuvres
- Efficient workplace installation (choice of equipment, anchorages, attachment points etc.)

- Top-down rescue by using relief of the strain techniques
- Correct application of the 4P-Check