ski guyNATIONAL SKI PATROL VS PENNSYLVANIA
September 7th 2010 14:56
There's a controversy brewing in the Pocono Mountains
of Pennsylvania between the state Department of Health
and the National Ski Patrol. It seems that over the years
the Pennsylvania Ski Patrol has been voluntarily working
with the health department to increase emergency responder
training opportunities for its members. Now, the state
is considering imposing all sorts of mandatory training
regulations on ski patrols as it does for municipal ambulance
services.
Well, the National Ski Patrol doesn't like that idea because
it would be expensive for volunteer ski patrollers to comply
with. Volunteer ski patrollers have received training through
the National Ski Patrols and their home mountains since the
late 1930s.
Pennsylvania ski area operators are concerned that if the
state increases mandatory and expensive training requirements
for their volunteer patrollers they may drop out of patrolling.
This would force ski areas to hire more professional patrollers
and thereby drive up the cost of lift tickets.
So for now, both sides are talking. Perhaps the Pennsylvania
Department of Health will back down from imposing reams of
new regulations upon this volunteer corps which has served the
skiing public well for generations.
Stay tuned.......................
of Pennsylvania between the state Department of Health
and the National Ski Patrol. It seems that over the years
the Pennsylvania Ski Patrol has been voluntarily working
with the health department to increase emergency responder
training opportunities for its members. Now, the state
is considering imposing all sorts of mandatory training
regulations on ski patrols as it does for municipal ambulance
services.
Well, the National Ski Patrol doesn't like that idea because
it would be expensive for volunteer ski patrollers to comply
the National Ski Patrols and their home mountains since the
late 1930s.
Pennsylvania ski area operators are concerned that if the
state increases mandatory and expensive training requirements
for their volunteer patrollers they may drop out of patrolling.
This would force ski areas to hire more professional patrollers
and thereby drive up the cost of lift tickets.
So for now, both sides are talking. Perhaps the Pennsylvania
Department of Health will back down from imposing reams of
new regulations upon this volunteer corps which has served the
skiing public well for generations.
Stay tuned.......................
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