what minimum skill levels do you believe aren't addressed by the proposed NASAR MSAR Practical standards? Or, what do you think needs to be changed to provide better "balance" in the proposed standards? (I don't see anything posted by you on www.smartgroups.com/groups/NASAR-MSAR )
The best advice that I can offer, is for NASAR to hire the services of a MSAR professional for their input (such as Kathy Roberts, who has written two different books on the topic). If we meet later in the week, I would happy to show you a (sample) 25 question written entry level test that would be applicable for MSAR personnel, regarding their equine knowledge. I may also be able to provide some insight to what a couple of MSAR projects that other organizations are working on. As for quality control, a post from the MSAR-Riders dated 1-27-04, provided an excellent source for standards information.However, I'm open to suggestion. ;)If someone is planning to launch a new organization specific to MSAR, complete with standards, quality controlled testing, etc., I'd like to hear more details.If someone is planning to roll out a "national standard" for MSAR without starting a new organization to provide certification with quality control, I'd like to hear the strategy of how this is supposed to work.
01-27-04: To revisit an old topic, I visited http://www.ihserc.com today and searched their database of other organizations' standards for the words "search" and "rescue". There were 90 search results, each a document, from organizations including ASTM, the US Army and Navy, NATO, BSI, GOST, ICAO, and many others. Among them, 3 standards from ASTM relating to SAR dogs.
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