The safety training that the team of the Tyrolean avalanche warning service recently completed on the Stubai Glacier focused on a new risk minimization concept for emergency services. The outside conditions couldn’t have been better: wind, snowfall, poor visibility, “chilly” temperatures.
On Wednesday, the Stubai Glacier offered the team around Rudi Mair, the head of the Tyrolean avalanche warning service, the best conditions to prepare for all eventualities that the avalanche warners will have to deal with in the coming weeks. “Our management report is not only produced in a quiet room, but is mainly based on intensive work in the field – under all circumstances,” says Rudi Mair about “Krone”.
Alpine experts and mountain guides recruited
For example, the 17-person team, consisting of officials and trainees on the glacier, trained and perfected avalanche beacon search, probing, moving in the terrain with crampons, crevasse rescue, roping and all other safety-related techniques. Harald Riedl, Head of Training at the Tyrolean Avalanche Commission, has recruited a team of alpine experts and mountain guides for this safety training, which is held annually at the beginning of the season.
Concept is to prevent accidents at work
Of course, an important part of the two-day course also took place in the classroom in Mutterberg. Because the experts around Rudi Mair have developed a safety concept that is intended to prevent accidents during off-road work. The framework for this was already there before the winter, but the digital version for mobile phones was then developed in the summer of 2022. “This concept forces you to make a good plan for working outside,” says Mair, citing the main benefit.
Just going into the snow and exploring the situation there is not playing. The parameters to be taken into account go far beyond those of the five avalanche danger levels. The concept already includes a risk analysis for the trip. If the traffic light is on “red”, it says “Stop!”
The concept is intended for the avalanche warning service and the avalanche commissions. Aid organizations such as mountain rescue and the Alpine Police have of course already shown interest.
Source: Krone
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