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PCSAR Guiding Documents

Standing Order #26 - Specialty Teams

Issue Date: May 2025

PURPOSE

Identify experts in the form of teams for each specialty identified in this document.

SCOPE/POLICY

It is the policy of PCSAR that there will be specialty teams of the identified fields listed below. Each specialty team will have a lead selected by the Training Officer every year.

RESPONSIBILITY

It shall be the responsibility of each identified specialty team to create and maintain the Check Sheet in their specialty field, assist in providing training focused on their specialty field, and every possible effort to respond to calls within their specialty field.

The Lead of a specialty team is responsible for the following:

  1. Calling specialty team meetings as needed.

  2. Confirming that each member of the specialty team has signed their annual compliance form.

  3. Verifying and tracking that each member of the specialty team has completed all training to become an official member of the specialty team.

PROCEDURE

  1. PCSAR voting members can fill out an application for a specialty team of their choosing.

    1. Applications will be submitted to the Training Officer and then presented to the officer group for approval.

    2. Applications will then be reviewed by the leader of that specialty team to be selected to become a training member.

      1. Officers and/or specialty team lead can choose to conduct an interview of applications if desired.

      2. Applicants will be selected based on their current skills, call response percentage, time on the team, and are a good fit for the specialty team.

  2. Once someone in training for a specialty team has fulfilled the requirements for that team, the leader of that specialty team will notify the Training Officer with documents that support completion of training.

  3. Each specialty team will compile specific training requirements that need to be completed to become a member of the specific specialty team.

    1. With final approval coming from the Training Officer.

  4. The officer group will confer with the specialty team lead and can set a limit to the number of members that can be in training at one time for each specialty team.

  5. Each member of a specialty team will sign an annual compliance form for that specific specialty team.

    1. If a member of the specialty team has not been fulfilling their team duties they have agreed to do, they can be suspended from the specialty team until completion or improvement of such items is done. This is to be determined by the specialty team leader and/or officer group.

  6. Specialty teams currently recognized by PCSAR:

    1. Vertical Team

      1. Vertical Checkers

      2. Climbing Team

    2. Extrication Team

    3. Advanced Equipment Team

      1. Sherp

      2. Snowcat

      3. EZ Raider

    4. Drone Pilot Team

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