Post by Taylor on Oct 14, 2006 11:04:13 GMT -5
Howdy,
The National Capitol Area Council (NCAC) of Boy Scouts of America is pushing cave safety. This Council heads up the BSA units in the DC/Northern VA area. They just put a web page up for the BSA caving requirements. This is a start and we'll be playing with the web page to make it mo' bettah. See what they've done at
www.boyscouts-ncac.org/pages/217_health_safety_committee.cfm
Note that caving has top billing at the list on the left of the page. Click onto that to go to the caving site.
We are discussing including caving-specific information on the tour permits, and I hope to have defined the "highly experienced" caver as required by BSA.
I'd like to expand this to the other councils that cave in this region.
The Council has requested a contact person for caving questions and I'd like to have one in the line up for Baltimore as well. Any one want to act as an informational resource (you do not have to line up cave guides for them) for these folks to help keep them doing the right thing? I think the vast majority of contact will be via e-mail. No working with the kids, no cave trips with anybody is required. Just answer basic questions via e-mail and point them to the NSS website for youth groups information.
Please distribute this e-mail far and wide. I think we should act on this quickly and take advantage of the opportunity to help improve the safety and caving ethics of this very active group. These folks are doing the right thing and we need to help them out in setting a standard instead of just whining about any problems youth groups may present.
If anyone has a cave cleanup scheduled, the NCAC might be a good source of labor. Send me the info if you have one scheduled.
The NCAC is starting to move on this. Let's keep the momentum going.
Pat Bingham
Chair, NSS Youth Groups Liaison Committee
The National Capitol Area Council (NCAC) of Boy Scouts of America is pushing cave safety. This Council heads up the BSA units in the DC/Northern VA area. They just put a web page up for the BSA caving requirements. This is a start and we'll be playing with the web page to make it mo' bettah. See what they've done at
www.boyscouts-ncac.org/pages/217_health_safety_committee.cfm
Note that caving has top billing at the list on the left of the page. Click onto that to go to the caving site.
We are discussing including caving-specific information on the tour permits, and I hope to have defined the "highly experienced" caver as required by BSA.
I'd like to expand this to the other councils that cave in this region.
The Council has requested a contact person for caving questions and I'd like to have one in the line up for Baltimore as well. Any one want to act as an informational resource (you do not have to line up cave guides for them) for these folks to help keep them doing the right thing? I think the vast majority of contact will be via e-mail. No working with the kids, no cave trips with anybody is required. Just answer basic questions via e-mail and point them to the NSS website for youth groups information.
Please distribute this e-mail far and wide. I think we should act on this quickly and take advantage of the opportunity to help improve the safety and caving ethics of this very active group. These folks are doing the right thing and we need to help them out in setting a standard instead of just whining about any problems youth groups may present.
If anyone has a cave cleanup scheduled, the NCAC might be a good source of labor. Send me the info if you have one scheduled.
The NCAC is starting to move on this. Let's keep the momentum going.
Pat Bingham
Chair, NSS Youth Groups Liaison Committee
