ALPINE
Alpine Certification Standards
The following are the current (2003) PSIA Education/Certification Standards. Referenced to PSIA-AASI's Core Concepts and PSIA's Alpine Technical Manual, terminology consistent with these manuals is used throughout this document. These standards provide a training focus, and represent a minimum competency for each level of certification.
The premise of the certification standards is based upon the concepts of "levels of understanding" which define stages of learning in degrees of understanding. As certification is a measure of understanding, levels of certification represent stages of understanding. Candidates will be held to the knowledge and performance standards of the level at which they are testing as well as the criteria for all preceding levels. [ download ]