I attended the annual NSAA winter conference at Mt Snow, VT in January 2017, and thought that others might benefit from the notes that I gathered when attending the Mountain Safety session.
Mountain Safety Program
- Look at 15 to 25 year old to get safety message out
- Change your Social Media message regularly
- Have an old lift on skis in base area to train young people how to load
- Are your lift operators trained specifically on how to load small children
- Some mountains have installed surveillance at lifts to monitor loading. This is used as a good teaching tool rather than for punishment.
- Train ski school on where to sit on chair with small children.
- Link your website to lidsonkids.org and www.kidsonlifts.org
- Have a Safety Page on your website
- Put a lift safety poster on the back of stall doors. More pictures less words.
- Put Park Smart Language sign near entrance to park.
- Include automatic helmet rental with ski or snowboard rental package. Have sign off for declamation of helmet.
- Use individual S – M – A – R – T signs for your lift towers leading to the park entrance.
- New NSAA video on collision of snowboarder with 5 year old and mother. Good to show employees at refreshers and to ski school at initial training. Should be available for next season. Previewed at Mt Snow.
Email me if you want to discuss any of these topics in greater detail, by following this link to NH Region Safety Advisor…
