Track & Trail operates a Safe System of Training. This is a system that's at the heart of our operations and forms the backbone of all our activities. If it’s not safe, we either make it safe or don't do it; It's as simple as that.

 

The Safe System of Training (SST) is a comprehensive framework that ensures everyone's safety by focusing on:

 

• Safe People

• Safe Equipment

• Safe Practices

• Safe Places

 

It involves mandatory training and professional qualifications for staff, strict procedures for activities, behavioural standard expectations of participants, and a supportive environment with safeguarding practices, aiming to reduce risks to "as low as reasonably practicable" in line with UK law, providing a safe but still challenging training environment. It integrates our operating policies and staff vetting (DBS checks).

 

We adhere to the rules, regulations, and guidance set out by our National Governing Body, the Mountain Training Association, and The British Mountaineering Council. Depending on which organisation (client) we are service providers for, we fully integrate their own safety and safeguarding policies.

 

Every activity we provide has attached to it comprehensive generic and site-specific risk assessments which are agreed and authorised by our clients before any event takes place.

 

Click Here to view our full Safety Operating Standard, Safeguarding, and other important Policy Documents (opens in a new window).