Utah Admin. Code 501-8-7 : Human Services — Health and Human Services, Administration, Administrative Services, Licensing —8 - Outdoor Youth Programs —8-7 - Staff Training

(1) An outdoor youth program shall provide at least 80 hours initial staff training.

(2) Initial staff training may not be considered completed until the staff have demonstrated to the field director proficiency in each of the following areas:

(a) counseling, teaching and supervisory skills;

(b) water, food, and shelter procurement, preparation, and conservation;

(c) low impact wilderness expedition and environmental conservation skills and procedures;

(d) client management, including containment, control, safety, conflict resolution, and behavior management;

(e) instruction in safety procedures and safe equipment use, fuel, fire, life protection, and related tools;

(f) instruction in emergency procedure, medical treatment, evacuation, weather, signaling, fire, and dealing with runaway and lost clients;

(g) sanitation procedures, water, trash, human waste, food handling;

(h) wilderness medicine, including health issues related to acclimation, exposure to the environment, and anaphylaxis;

(i) CPR, standard first aid, first aid kit contents and use, and the program's medication management policy and procedure;

(j) navigation skills, including map and compass use and contour and celestial navigation;

(k) local environmental precautions, including terrain, weather, spiders, ticks, scorpions, snakes, insects, predatory animals, poisonous plants, giardia, frostbite, hypothermia, heat exhaustion, dehydration, responses to adverse situations, and emergency evacuation;

(l) leadership and judgment;

(m) report writing, including required development and maintenance of logs; and

(n) federal, state, and local regulations.

(3) At least 80 hours of initial staff training shall be completed, documented, and maintained in each staff personnel file.

(4) The field director shall document in each personnel file how the field director determined that each staff has demonstrated proficiency in each of the required topic areas as listed in subsection two of this section.

(5) Each initial staff training and demonstration of proficiency must be completed and documented before the staff may count in the staff client ratio.

(6) Each program shall provide and document on-going staff training to improve proficiency in knowledge and skills and to maintain certifications.

Utah Admin. Code R501-8-7

Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2022-06, effective 3/7/2022