SPECIFICATIONS
The following provisions apply in the absence of specific provisions set out in the decree for the term in question.
A. – Clauses general to all specific environments
Clause 1. – The school implements vocational training in a specific environment in compliance with specific safety measures.
The establishment undertakes to guarantee the safety of its staff, students and third parties.
Clause 2. – The establishment ensures a high level of quality in its activity.
The establishment :
– guarantees equal treatment of trainees ;
– encourages the participation of women in its activities ;
– provides high-quality information on the orientation and training pathway of trainees;
– promotes professional integration and access to employment;
– encourages the acceptance and integration of people with disabilities into training courses;
– pays particular attention to work-study locations and to the qualifications and professional experience of tutors;
– has a competent teaching team organised around a coordinator who is a specialist in the subject.
Clause 3. – The establishment organises, directs and directly controls the implementation of professional training in the sports discipline in question.
In accordance with article L. 212-2 of the French Sports Code :
– the establishment alone is competent to provide training in the specific environment for which it has been authorised and for which it is entirely responsible ;
– agreements concluded with partners under private law may under no circumstances constitute a public service delegation within the meaning of article L. 1411-1 of the General Local Authorities Code.
In accordance with article R. 212-8 of the French Sports Code, the establishment may enter into agreements for the implementation of part of the training, provided that it retains the prerogatives of organisation and control, particularly for actions relating to face-to-face teaching and public safety.
Clause 4. – The establishment shall contribute to the implementation by the State of the rules relating to the freedom to provide services and the freedom of establishment.
The establishment shall contribute its human and material resources to the implementation of European aptitude tests and tests in the sporting discipline in question.
Clause 5. – The establishment shall base its action on a network of partners.
The school :
– collaborates with the national technical directorate concerned with the discipline ;
– Seek partnerships with the delegating federation;
– Seek possible complementarities with other establishments in the network, particularly by pooling resources;
– collaborate, where necessary, with those involved in the specific environment determined.
Clause 6. – Under the aegis of the Sports Department, the school takes part in the coordination committee for the discipline in the specific environment for which it organises training courses.
The school is a member of the coordination committee for each discipline in a specific environment. This coordination committee :
– is led by the Sports Department ;
– meets at least once a year;
– is made up of representatives of the Sports Department, representatives of the establishments on the list for the discipline in question, the Regional Director of Youth, Sport and Social Cohesion for the region in which the establishments concerned are located or his/her representative and the National Technical Director for the discipline or his/her representative;
– may call on any person with expertise in the issues in question, as required;
– may be organised into specialised committees which report to it;
– its purpose is to harmonise training courses, produce a reflection on the discipline, draw up an annual quantitative and qualitative report on the specific environment, and provide a forward-looking vision of the discipline;
– contributes to the pooling of resources within the network, in particular the sharing of knowledge and the transfer of information and best practice relating to the sport;
– helps to optimise national training provision in the sport;
– organises national meetings on the sports discipline, in which the establishments in the network and the sports federation(s) and professional union(s) participate and collaborate;
– maintains relations with the agents working for the sports federation(s) concerned and the national technical directorate.
Clause 7. – The establishment includes its action in a sustainable development and environmental protection approach.
The establishment :
– trains trainees in the issues and provisions relating to environmental protection in the field of the sports discipline ;
– ensures that the environment is protected in the context of training courses in the sport in question;
– is part of a sustainable development policy based on its three economic, social and environmental pillars;
– ensures compliance with the obligations to protect the natural areas in which the activity takes place.
Clause 8. – The school assimilates and maintains within itself the culture specific to the sport in question.
The establishment demonstrates that it shares the culture of the specific environment in question.
B. – Clauses specific to underwater diving
Clause 1. – For the implementation and monitoring of training courses in terms of teaching and safety, the establishment has the following teaching team at its disposal:
– the technical and pedagogical co-ordination of underwater diving courses is carried out by state-qualified personnel :
– with a BEES 2 or DESJEPS in the discipline ;
– either a permanent trainer or a trainer under contract to the establishment ;
– or a sports technical executive (CTS) in the discipline, whose mission statement sets out the terms and conditions of his or her work under the functional authority of the school head;
– in-centre training is provided by trainers appointed by the school director after consultation with the training coordinator.
Clause 2. – The establishment shall ensure that permanent employees receive regular medical check-ups that comply with legal requirements.
Clause 3. – The establishment is located in a geographical area with practice sites close to where the training will take place and adapted to the depth requirements corresponding to the training and the diploma in question.
It undertakes to organise the majority of dives in the marine environment.
Clause 4. – The establishment ensures that the technical equipment used for the training is adapted to the needs of the training, properly maintained and complies with current standards.
For example, the dive boat used must allow trainees to practise handling it in accordance with the regulations.
Similarly, the establishment has access to nitrox equipment in accordance with current standards.
Clause 5. – The establishment enters into partnerships and agreements limited to specific training objectives and specifying the means of control and evaluation.
Clause 6. – The school demonstrates its knowledge of the structures for hosting work-linked training trainees.
The establishment guarantees that trainees are monitored at the work-linked training host structures by means of at least one educational visit for each trainee during the training period.
Cooperation between establishments and services must result in an operational network that makes it possible to visit the various work-study sites when the work-study structure is far from the training site.
Trainees must be placed in a work situation during a busy period for the public, so that they can acquire the skills they need to ensure that their work is safe within these constraints.
A work-study charter specifies for each trainee the detailed breakdown of training time at the centre and in the company.
The school provides a minimum of one day’s training in the role of tutor:
– explaining what is expected of the work placement ;
– presenting the training course ;
– enabling feedback to be exchanged between the partners;
– harmonising certifications when they take place in a company.
The school ensures that trainers and tutors work together to guarantee a high standard of training.
The school collects a written end-of-training report from each tutor.
The tutors have the qualifications required by the decree for the diploma corresponding to the training provided by the establishment.
Clause 7. – The school takes part in the coordination committee led by the Sports Department.
Clause 8. – The school puts into practice the principles validated by the coordination committee in order to ensure a quality public service, such as the harmonisation of the different phases of training, pedagogical implementation, certifications, techniques and practices taught and technologies used.
C. – Clauses specific to canoe-kayak
Clause 1. – The school has a teaching team to implement and monitor training courses in terms of teaching and safety.
The coordinator and the teaching team have the qualifications set out in the diploma decree. Where this is not specified in the diploma decree, the teaching team is made up of a technical and teaching coordinator who is a technical and teaching staff member of the establishment and holds the diploma required to supervise the discipline of canoeing and kayaking in a specific environment.
Exceptionally, the coordinating role may be entrusted to a sports teacher with a DESJEPS or BEES 2nd degree in the discipline.
The school seeks expertise in setting up and running the teaching team.
The school will involve the National Technical Department in training engineering.
Clause 2. – The school demonstrates that it is part of a geographical area through :
– a context and geographical proximity likely to anchor the discipline in the natural environment targeted by the specific environment ;
– an appropriate natural environment and a professional context linked to the qualifications in the specific environment.
Clause 3. – The establishment must have the main technical equipment necessary for the training of trainees.
The establishment must be able to present trainees with a variety of equipment in compliance with ethical rules, in order to make them aware of the equipment, its management and maintenance.
Clause 4. – The establishment shall be responsible for the management of personal protective equipment.
Personal protective equipment is a fundamental part of the culture of canoeing and kayaking and knowledge of it must be included in the training.
Clause 5. – The school enters into partnerships and agreements.
The school is responsible for all accredited training and must retain full control of it.
The establishment enters into partnerships with other public establishments, federations or professional bodies in the sector of activity.
These partnership agreements relate in particular to equipment, practice sites and the skills to be sought.
The establishment is a reference site for partners and government departments, particularly for consultations and expert opinions.
Clause 6. – The school must be able to organise the geographical mobility of trainees in accordance with the training locations and periods.
Clause 7. – The establishment shall demonstrate its knowledge of the structures for hosting work-linked training trainees.
The establishment :
– demonstrates that it is close to the work-linked training structures by compiling a list of them and being aware of their reception capacity and the availability of tutors;
– ensures that trainees are monitored at the work-linked training centres and carries out an on-site visit at least once during the course. Cooperation between the establishments and departments of the ministry responsible for sport must result in an operational network enabling visits to be made to the various work-linked training sites when the host structure is far from the training site;
– ensures the quality of tutoring by setting up tutoring training at the start of the course in the form of an information day covering the expectations of the work placement, a presentation of the training course, exchanges between the partners on feedback and harmonisation of the certifications that take place in the company;
– checks that the tutors have the qualifications set out in the diploma decree. In cases where the order does not specify this, the establishment checks that the tutors hold a DEJEPS, DESJEPS or a complementary white water qualification with all the skills expected in relation to the diploma being prepared;
– organises collaboration between trainers and tutors in order to ensure that tutors are kept informed and that their experience is shared, with the aim of achieving a high quality of training and an exchange of practice at national level;
– makes it compulsory for tutors to draw up an end-of-training report for trainees.
Clause 8. – The school undertakes to take part in the coordination committee led by the Sports Directorate of the Ministry of Sports.
Clause 9. – The school undertakes to put into practice the principles validated by the coordination committee in order to ensure a high-quality public training service.
The school shall take part in the harmonisation of selection procedures, the prerequisites for learning situations and certifications in particular.
The school participates in the organisation of entrance tests through the presence of staff specialising in the discipline.
The school will ensure that trainees are accompanied in their acquisition of the requirements prior to being put into practice, by means of real-life situations with the public on suitable practice sites.
The school monitors the progress of trainees’ practical experience.
The establishment participates in drawing up a national list of experts proposed to the DRJSCS for the organisation of juries.
D. – Clauses specific to aerotow sports
Clause 1. – To implement and monitor the training courses in terms of teaching and safety, the establishment has a teaching team.
The teaching team is organised around the teaching and technical coordinator, who is a technical and teaching staff member holding a DEJEPS or DESJEPS in the discipline.
As a transitional measure, the establishment may entrust the pedagogical and technical coordination of the aerotow training to a technical and pedagogical staff from the establishment recognised for their competence in the discipline and supported by a team made up of contractual staff from the establishment in conjunction with the delegating federation.
The educational approach is established by the school’s coordinator and instructors.
The school implements the training in its entirety, allowing for a diversity of practices.
Clause 2. – The establishment demonstrates that it is part of a geographical catchment area through :
– a context and immediate geographical proximity that enable trainees to benefit from rapid installation of equipment depending on the weather ;
– Adaptability in terms of setting up sessions;
– a degree of geographical mobility due to the locations where the courses are held, in order to vary the practical requirements linked to different coastal environments (tidal phenomena, hot/cold water, etc.), changes in the weather and the environment in which the courses are held (pond, sea).
Clause 3. – The establishment has the main technical equipment required.
The establishment has a range of equipment adapted to the level of the diploma and the level of progression for all types of practice and public: water aerotow equipment useful for the discovery, initiation and improvement phases; land aerotow equipment useful for the discovery, initiation and improvement phases.
The school may own this equipment or hire it out.
The school will make the trainee aware of how to manage this equipment throughout the course.
Clause 4. – The establishment must comply with the supervision rates determined as follows:
– defined by the educational and technical co-ordinator of the training course when the technique is to be put into practice between trainees ;
– one trainer from the establishment for a maximum of four pairs of trainees when the learning situation is carried out in the presence of the public.
Clause 5. – The establishment must undertake at the very least to comply with the federal recommendations relating to the safety of trainees:
– in particular with regard to helmets, buoyancy jackets and wing safety systems allowing traction reduction and uncoupling ;
– the establishment ensures that their use is in line with the needs of the situations encountered during the training.
Clause 6. – The school enters into partnerships with the aim of enriching the training.
The school may recruit temporary staff for specific training weeks defined in a schedule and organised by the coordinator. These temporary staff are subordinate to the school.
The school may enter into an agreement with the delegating federation, another public institution or a professional organisation for a defined number of days with a view to exchanging professional practices.
Partnership agreements may also be set up with companies that own equipment or develop new equipment for the discipline as part of the innovation process.
Clause 7. – The school must demonstrate its knowledge of the structures for hosting work-linked training trainees :
– by ensuring that any aerotow school (professional or association) wishing to take on a work-linked trainee complies with the technical rules laid down by the delegating federation;
– ensuring that each trainee is actually in training during the summer and not in a quasi-employment situation due to the number of people attending;
– by drawing up a description of the arrangements for hosting a trainee instructor in the company, which should enable the trainee to enter into a contract with greater visibility;
– by organising relations with tutors by :
– setting up training for first-time tutors. Tutors are required to attend this training course before taking on trainees. The content is defined on the basis of updates and reminders of safety concepts, training organisation, certifications prepared by the trainee, training methods and training content;
– the drafting of a work-study charter setting out the terms of collaboration between the establishment and the tutors;
– the obligation for tutors to carry out at least one interim and one final assessment with the work-linked trainee. During the in-company training and at the time of the assessments, the tutors must inform the training centres of any problems encountered;
– the obligation to involve them in the certification process;
– their participation, in part, in DEJEPS management training;
– the organisation of assessments of the tutoring season (Mediterranean/Ocean).
Clause 8. – The school undertakes to take part in the coordination committee run by the Sports Department of the Ministry of Sport.
Clause 9. – The school undertakes to put into practice the principles validated by the coordination committee in order to ensure a high quality public training service, such as the harmonisation of selection procedures, prior requirements for learning situations and certifications in particular.
E. – Specific clauses relating to sea surfing
Clause 1. – For the implementation and monitoring of training courses in terms of teaching and safety, the establishment has the following teaching team:
– sea surfing training is coordinated by state-appointed technical staff and specialists in the discipline who hold a BEES 2 sea surfing option or a DEJEPS or DESJEPS sea surfing specialisation who have been appointed to the establishment or are on permanent contract with the establishment;
– exceptionally, the establishment may have technical and teaching staff or a specialist in the discipline, holding a level IV surfing diploma (BEES or BPJEPS) with experience in executive training or in the process of acquiring the DEJEPS or DESJEPS in sea surfing, supported by the coordinator.
Clause 2. – The establishment demonstrates that it is part of a geographical area by :
– ensuring that the training site is close to the places where surfing is practised ;
– demonstrating that the trainee at the end of the course is capable of dealing with the various complex situations associated with the sea and ocean environment. For example, for an establishment located in mainland France, part of the training must be organised on the Atlantic coast.
Clause 3. – The establishment must demonstrate that it has the main technical equipment required for training trainees.
The establishment must vary the types of equipment and media used throughout the trainees’ training.
This equipment may be the property of the establishment or, if this is not the case, the establishment must have it at its disposal under an agreement with a third party. These agreements must be provided when the application is submitted.
The establishment must have compliant rescue equipment and must provide a rescue organisation plan. The establishment must undertake to put in place procedures for organising emergency assistance at the practice site.
Clause 4. – The establishment must demonstrate its knowledge of the structures hosting work-linked training trainees.
The establishment must :
– monitor trainees at the work-linked training facilities, with at least one visit during the training period ;
– ensure that the trainee is in the company during the peak public period (particularly in July and August in mainland France), which will enable it to demonstrate its ability to ensure safe practice within these constraints;
– set up training for tutors;
– undertake to set out the roles and commitments of the various players in a work-linked training charter. This charter commits the host structure to being a surf school recognised for :
– the quality of the welcome given to students ;
– safe supervision of the public
– the teacher’s technical, sporting, teaching and leadership skills;
– the school’s ability to offer trainees the whole of the relevant teaching programme (from beginners to the first level of competition);
– the ability to accommodate trainees in teaching situations for a minimum of eighty hours, which must be set out in the charter;
– be careful to sign agreements with work-linked training structures that are open for at least six months of the year;
– ensure that these tutors have a diploma at least equivalent to the diploma covered by the course and have worked for at least two seasons;
– respect the principle of a single work-linked training structure for the same trainee, except by way of exception for trainees with a very specific profile;
– organise collaboration between trainers and tutors in order to determine the capacity of the structures to take on trainees, to ensure that tutors are kept informed and to share the experience they have gained, in order to ensure the quality of the training and the exchange of practices at national level;
– ensure that the tutor writes the trainees’ end-of-training report. This report is compulsory.
Clause 5. – The school undertakes to take part in the coordination committee run by the Sports Department of the Ministry of Sports.
Clause 6. – The establishment undertakes to put into practice the principles validated by the coordination committee in order to ensure a high quality public training service, such as the harmonisation of selection procedures, prerequisites for learning situations and certification. The prerequisite tests for entry to the training programme are set up by the national technical directorate.
The establishment must also undertake to involve trainees in joint training sessions specified by the coordinating body, in the presence of the National Technical Management and the French Surfing Federation.
F. – Clauses specific to free flight
Clause 1. – For the implementation and monitoring of training courses in terms of teaching and safety, the establishment has a teaching team.
Training courses must be coordinated by an educational and technical coordinator, an agent of the Ministry of Sports, holding a BEES 2nd degree in free flight or, failing this, a DEJEPS in sports development with a specialisation in paragliding or hang-gliding or a DESJEPS in sports performance with a specialisation in paragliding or hang-gliding.
If there is no permanent staff member assigned to the establishment with the above qualifications, the establishment may entrust the coordination of teaching to a contract staff member recruited specifically for this role and who is recognised in the industry for his or her technical and teaching skills. In this case, the BEES 2nd degree in free flight or the DESJEPS in paragliding is required.
The establishment may hire instructors:
– for classroom training sessions, it will call on the people it considers most competent to pass on the knowledge and skills associated with the diploma in question;
– for training sessions in the field dealing specifically with free flight activities, the instructors must hold one of the following qualifications: BEES 2e degré vol libre , DEJEPS perfectionnement sportif mention parapente ou deltaplane ou DES performance sportive mention parapente ou deltaplane .
Permanent staff from the Ministry of Sport (sports teachers) or the Ministry of Education (certified or associate PE teachers) or technical staff from the Fédération française de vol libre (French Free Flight Federation) may act as instructors if they hold at least the BEES 1st degree in free flight.
The school may recruit temporary staff for specific training weeks defined by a schedule and organised by the coordinator. These temporary workers are therefore subordinate to the school and will receive a trainers’ coordination booklet clearly setting out the school’s expectations of them.
In order to ensure a high standard of teaching, the school may make provision for the involvement of different instructors who are professionals in the activity and specialists in particular fields (flight mechanics, meteorology, physiology, etc.). The volume of work carried out by these personnel must be at least sixty instructor-days for a complete course (based on a class of sixteen trainees).
Clause 2. – The establishment must comply with the trainee supervision rates thus determined.
This supervision rate varies according to the teaching situations encountered, but during training periods in the field, a distinction must be made between :
– technical or educational practice time without a support audience, where the supervision rate is chosen by the training coordinator according to the planned programme ;
– instructional time with a real audience (support audience), where the supervision ratio will be two supervisors for a maximum of six trainees.
Clause 3. – The school’s training centre must be located in the immediate vicinity of flying sites in order to be able to optimise practice slots, as the activity of free flight is highly dependent on weather conditions.
The school may, however, arrange for the training to be relocated in order to meet the criteria of proximity to flying sites.
Clause 4. – The specific nature of hang-gliding activities requires a teaching organisation that ensures the safety of trainees as much as possible.
The establishment undertakes to make trainees aware of their own safety and that of third parties with regard to the equipment used.
The resources used are designed to ensure both the safety of trainees and training conditions that meet the quality standards that all trainees are entitled to expect.
Trainees must use approved flying equipment.
Clause 5. – The establishment must make available to the trainer, during training sessions in the field :
– means of telecommunication and/or radio communication in order to activate the emergency services ;
– a first aid kit, which must always be close to the training site, especially during field training sessions.
Clause 6. – The school must equip itself with the logistical and teaching resources appropriate to the content and forms of intervention planned by the instructors.
Clause 7. – The school enters into agreements and partnerships.
The school may enter into an agreement with the delegating federation, another school or the representative professional union for a pre-defined number of days and content.
Agreements and partnerships can be set up with local companies or unions that own equipment or develop new equipment for the discipline as part of the innovation process. However, this type of partnership will primarily seek to bring trainees face to face with the reality of the professional environment.
Clause 8. – The establishment demonstrates its administrative and technical knowledge of the structures hosting trainees by ensuring that :
– any free flight school (professional or associative) wishing to host a trainee during training complies with the technical rules laid down by the delegating federation and has at least one person in its team of permanent instructors who has taken the tutoring training course; it undertakes to comply with the charter for hosting student instructors validated by the national coordination;
– the tutor uses the liaison tools worked out by the national coordination and that this tutor proposes a gradual and coherent assumption of autonomy to the trainee for whom he/she is responsible;
– the trainee is monitored during the work-linked training periods, in particular by means of the educational liaison documents and by visits to the company, at least once a year, in the actual presence of the trainee.
Clause 9. – The school undertakes to take part in the coordination committee run by the Sports Department of the Ministry of Sports.
Clause 10. – The school undertakes to put into practice the principles validated by the coordination committee in order to ensure a quality public training service, such as the harmonisation of the different phases of training, pedagogical implementation, certifications, techniques and practices taught and technologies used.
The school collaborates in drawing up a national list of experts for jury panels, with the aim of harmonising practices.
The school delegates staff to take part in setting up the selection test(s).
G. – Clauses specific to caving
Clause 1. – For the implementation and monitoring of training courses in terms of teaching and safety, the establishment has a teaching team.
The training courses are coordinated by an educational and technical coordinator who is a state-appointed or contracted staff member of the establishment specialising in the discipline and holding a 1st degree BEES in caving, a DEJEPS or a DESJEPS in caving.
The technical and educational co-ordinator is responsible for this discipline alone, although he or she may collaborate as necessary with the school’s training team on disciplines other than caving.
The school’s technical and educational co-ordinator responsible for caving must always be present when the prerequisites for the teaching situation are checked.
The establishment may use a network of trainers who are subordinate to it, identified for their skills, and involved from the design stage of the course under the guidance of the technical and educational co-ordinator. For technical and pedagogical interventions, this trainer must hold one of the three diplomas BEES 1st degree option speleology, DEJEPS or DESJEPS mention speleology.
Clause 2. – The establishment will involve the French Caving Federation’s National Technical Department in the design of the training courses and in the meetings of trainers that it organises.
Clause 3. – The establishment must comply with the following trainee supervision ratios:
– one supervisor for every three trainees when the training is given in the presence of the public ;
– one supervisor for every four trainees when the technique is put into practice between trainees.
Clause 4. – The establishment must demonstrate that it is part of a geographical area as evidenced by :
– proximity between the training site and the practice sites ;
– a historical and cultural context favourable to training and the development of a culture specific to caving;
– recognised expertise in caving training and investment in this activity;
– identification of the activity area and its coherence with the resulting training offer;
– a diversified approach to practice sites in order to visit karstic massifs;
– participate in building a network with all the organisations involved in the discipline, in terms of developing the activity, structuring it and managing it. It must be part of a relationship with federal and professional players. The establishment must do this in collaboration with the departmental caving committees.
Clause 5. – The establishment must own the class 3 personal protective equipment complying with the current CE standard required for caving training.
With the exception of class 3 equipment to AFNOR NFS 72 701 standards, the establishment may supplement its own equipment by agreements with companies specialising in the activity.
Clause 6. – The establishment manages the personal protective equipment it owns in accordance with AFNOR standard NFS 72 701 and controls the management of trainees’ PPE.
For the management of the personal protective equipment it owns, the establishment appoints a person responsible for this equipment, who is a specialist in the discipline and is a member of the establishment’s staff. This person is able to guarantee the maintenance of the equipment, including the personal protective equipment. The conditions of use, storage, maintenance and safety of this equipment comply with AFNOR standard NFS 72 701.
Clause 7. – The establishment undertakes to provide its managers and instructors with all the necessary means to provide first aid and to activate the appropriate emergency services in the practical situation.
Clause 8. – The school may enter into agreements or partnerships.
The establishment may enter into all partnerships useful for training with all the players: national technical directorate, French Speleology Federation, representatives of professionals, etc.
The school must demonstrate that these partnerships are aimed at :
– the local and geographical context, such as site management, environmental conservation, etc. ;
– the provision of educational resources by partner organisations;
– the provision by one or more suppliers of the equipment required for the training, excluding class 3 equipment (AFNOR standard NFS 72 701).
Clause 9. – The establishment must have a natural or artificial site nearby which allows rope access techniques to be taught and practised or, failing that, sign an agreement for its use.
Clause 10. – The establishment must demonstrate its knowledge of the structures for hosting work-study trainees.
The establishment must demonstrate that it ensures the quality of the tutoring through the obligations of the tutor, who must :
– relate the content of the training in the centre to the practical work situations offered to the trainee ;
– help the trainee to fit in at work;
– put the trainee in a position to welcome and inform the public;
– involve the trainee in equipment management and then make him/her responsible for it ;
– involve the trainee in leading a group and then gradually make him/her more responsible for his/her own performance;
– validate the preparation of the trainee’s caving teaching activities, organised and run independently by the trainee (maximum class 3);
– conduct debriefings for each outing;
– report on the trainee’s activities and assess them using a tutored training logbook;
– inform the school of any difficulties encountered by the trainee;
– at the end of the training, issue any opinion on the trainee that may be useful for the acquisition of skills throughout the training programme.
The establishment must check that the professional fulfils the following conditions for taking on the role of tutor:
– be up to date with his/her regulatory obligations ;
– be able to provide proof of three years’ professional experience in caving;
– be able to offer a wide range of activities to a diverse public;
– be able to offer at least five different caves for the training sessions;
– provide or facilitate access to an internet connection;
– hold either :
– DESJEPS in caving ;
– DEJEPS in caving; or
– a 1st degree state diploma in caving.
The establishment must ensure that :
– the tutor is physically present with the public and the trainee for whom he/she is responsible, and is solely responsible for collective safety. In other circumstances, the tutor is jointly responsible for organising the activity;
– the tutor may supervise a maximum of two trainees within the duration of the training authorisation, but only one at a time in a teaching situation.
The school must monitor the tutoring and set up tools to monitor the alternation:
– monitoring tutoring is the responsibility of the training organisation’s teaching team. Due to the distance or unavailability of all or part of the teaching team, the establishment may call on staff from the Ministry of Sports or qualified technicians in the activity;
– each trainee is visited at least once by the training organisation, which must include a formative assessment interview;
– the tutored training booklet, issued to all trainees when they start their training, provides a link between the teaching team, the trainee and the tutor. This booklet may comprise four parts:
– a first part, called the 1st level logbook, which reports on work-related situations relating to the independent learning experience;
– a second part, called the level 2 logbook, which describes the work situations relating to the tutor’s support in his or her professional role;
– a third part giving an account of the professional situations relating to supporting the tutor in the context of an FFS departmental caving school;
– a fourth part reporting on professional situations relating to the design and coordination of the activity, known as the professional environment.
This booklet is filled in remotely and in real time by the trainee on an IT platform that can be consulted by the training organisation. The tutors maintain a standardised and simplified paper record of the trainee’s activity. This document is sent to the training organisation at the end of the periods spent in professional structures.
Clause 11. – A list of tutors is drawn up annually by the establishment.
The socio-professional partners (French Speleology Federation, organisations representing the profession) propose lists of tutors each year. The training organisation chooses all or part of this list for a training authorisation. Only the list of tutors updated by the establishment can give access to tutor status for the duration of the authorisation.
Clause 12. – The school undertakes to take part in the coordination committee run by the sports department of the ministry responsible for sports.
Clause 13. – The establishment undertakes to put into practice the principles validated by the coordination committee in order to ensure a quality public training service, such as the harmonisation of the different phases of training and pedagogical implementation, certifications, techniques and practices taught and technologies used.
H. – Specific climbing clauses
Clause 1. – The establishment has a teaching team at its disposal to implement and monitor the training courses, from an educational and safety point of view.
The teaching team is made up of a minimum of two State employees, technical and teaching staff, specialists in the discipline who hold a BEES 1er degré, option “escalade”, a BEES 2e degré, option escalade, a DEJEPS mention escalade en milieux naturels, a high mountain guide diploma from the brevet d’Etat d’alpinisme.
By way of derogation, the establishment must have at least one technical and teaching staff member from the establishment who is a government employee specialising in the discipline and one permanent category A contract staff member from the establishment whose main activity is to organise and supervise trainees in the establishment. These people must hold one of the four aforementioned diplomas in the discipline.
The technical and pedagogical coordination of climbing courses in specific environments, as well as its implementation, is carried out by one or other of these people, who may be assisted by an agent of the establishment responsible for the administrative follow-up of the trainee. The technical and pedagogical coordinator holds a reference diploma covering climbing in specific environments.
The school may recruit instructors as part of the accredited training. For the parts relating to climbing in specific environments, these instructors must hold one of the three diplomas that have been recycled (valid certificate): a 1st degree BEES, “climbing” option, a 2nd degree BEES, climbing option, a DEJEPS with a specialisation in climbing in natural environments, a high mountain guide diploma from the state mountaineering certificate. They can be integrated into the teaching team and involved in training engineering.
Clause 2. – The establishment must comply with the following trainee supervision ratios:
– the rate of one trainer for a maximum of four trainees in high-altitude situations, with the exception of via ferrata and related activities;
– a ratio of one trainer to a maximum of eight trainees for all other situations.
The establishment remains responsible for adapting the number of trainees according to the situations encountered. The trainer must be able to intervene quickly and the number of trainers must be proportionate to the number of trainees.
Clause 3. – The establishment must demonstrate that it is part of the geographical area :
– by being part of a historical and cultural context favourable to training and by developing a culture specific to climbing in a specific environment ;
– by demonstrating recognised expertise in training in climbing in a specific environment and its investment in this activity;
– demonstrating proximity between the training site and the practice sites:
– with a range of practice sites suited to the sector and located close to the training site, i.e. within a distance of less than 50 km (bouldering sites, sports sites, major route sites, adventure terrain sites, high acrobatics courses, via ferrata, artificial climbing structures); and
– 50% of the technical and educational training must take place close to the establishment; for the rest of the training, the establishment must plan to travel to different mountain ranges in order to ensure diversity of practice.
Clause 4. – The establishment must demonstrate that it has a range of technical equipment suitable for the training courses.
Exceptionally, the establishment may supplement this equipment by entering into agreements with companies specialising in the activity.
The establishment must :
– manage the personal protective equipment for which it is responsible and appoint a person responsible for this equipment, who is a specialist in the discipline and is a member of the school’s staff;
– be able to guarantee the maintenance of equipment, including personal protective equipment;
– ensure that the conditions of use, storage, maintenance and safety of this equipment comply with the regulations on personal protective equipment.
Clause 5. – The establishment shall provide each manager in charge of a group of trainees with all the means necessary to activate the emergency services (first aid, putting victims on standby and activating the emergency services).
Clause 6. – The establishment enters into agreements and partnerships.
The establishment may enter into any partnerships that may be useful for training purposes with all those involved (national technical directorate, federations, professional representatives, trade unions, establishments under the authority of the Ministry of Sports, etc.), provided that it is responsible for the pedagogical and technical coordination of these training courses in order to fully exercise its responsibility and ensure the safety conditions of the trainees and the target audience.
The establishment must demonstrate the reality of its partnerships linked to the local and geographical context (management of sites, access to artificial climbing structures, preservation of the environment, etc.) with the structures providing the teaching public.
When a practice site useful for training is far from the school, the latter may, by agreement, use an accommodation centre located near the practice site concerned.
Clause 7. – The school must demonstrate its knowledge of the facilities available for work-linked training trainees.
The school must demonstrate that it ensures the quality of the tutoring through the obligations of the tutor, who must :
– relate the content of the training at the centre to the practical work situations offered to the trainee ;
– help the trainee to fit in at work;
– put the trainee in a position to welcome and inform the public;
– involve the trainee and then make him/her responsible for managing equipment, teaching climbing and leading a group;
– put the trainee in a position to observe and then co-supervise his/her sessions (stage 1 of the sandwich course);
– validate the preparation of climbing teaching activities organised and led independently by the trainee (stage 2 of the sandwich course);
– involve the trainee in the design and supervision of the climbing sessions covered by stage 3 of the work-study programme;
– conduct assessment sessions for each outing;
– report on the trainee’s activity and assess the trainee using a standardised tutored training logbook;
– inform the training organisation of any difficulties encountered by the trainee;
– at the end of the course, issue any advice that may be useful for the acquisition of skills throughout the training programme.
Each year, the establishment draws up a list of tutors based on proposals from socio-professional partners (Fédération française de montagne et escalade, FFCAM, structures representing the profession).
The establishment must check that the professional fulfils the conditions required to become a tutor:
– have taken part in a tutoring training course ;
– be up to date with their regulatory obligations;
– be able to prove three years’ professional experience in climbing on all types of terrain;
– be able to offer climbing lessons to a wide range of people;
– be capable of proposing a variety of activities and media for all the activities on the climbing routes covered by one or two tutors maximum;
– provide or facilitate access to an internet connection, which is essential for following the course;
– hold and be up to date with their refresher training (valid certificate):
– either a DEJEPS in rock climbing in natural environments ;
– either the high mountain guide diploma of the French state mountaineering certificate (brevet d’Etat d’alpinisme);
– or a 2nd degree state diploma in sports education (brevet d’État d’éducateur sportif du 2e degré), climbing option; or
– the 1st degree state diploma for sports instructors, climbing option; or
– or the climbing instructor diploma of the state mountaineering certificate.
The establishment must ensure that the tutor exercises his/her responsibilities :
– in stages 1 and 3 of the face-to-face teaching, the tutor is physically present with the public and the trainee for whom he/she is responsible and is solely responsible for collective safety. The tutor may supervise a maximum of two trainees within the duration of the training authorisation, but only one in a teaching situation;
– in all other circumstances, the tutor and the trainee are jointly responsible for organising the activity.
The school must use tools for monitoring the alternation, such as the tutored training booklet:
– the establishment must provide tools for monitoring the alternation using standardised documents;
– monitoring tutoring is the responsibility of the school’s teaching team;
– the tutored training work-study booklet is the logbook for training in a professional structure and for tutoring. It serves as a link between the teaching team, the trainee and the tutor.
The establishment undertakes to make at least one visit to each trainee, during which a learning situation and a formative assessment interview will take place.
Clause 8. – The school undertakes to take part in the coordination committee led by the Sports Directorate of the Ministry of Sports.
Clause 9. – The school undertakes to put into practice the principles validated by the coordination committee in order to ensure a quality public training service, such as the harmonisation of the different phases of training, pedagogical implementation, certifications, techniques and practices taught and technologies used.
I. – Clauses specific to canyoning
Clause 1. – For the implementation and monitoring of training courses in terms of teaching and safety, the establishment has a teaching team that respects the following principles:
– at least two technical and teaching staff belonging to the establishment and holding a level II diploma or the DEJEPS in canyoning are responsible for coordinating the training courses, in order to ensure the continuity of the training provided.
If these conditions are not met and by way of exception, coordination is entrusted to two staff members of the establishment whose main activity is the organisation and monitoring of trainees in the establishment;
– all those involved in training who may be called upon by the school have the prerogatives of practice relating to the discipline. The trainers are involved in the engineering and design of the training courses and take part in the pedagogical work meetings.
Clause 2. – In order to ensure the quality of teaching, the school must comply with the following ratio :
– one instructor for a maximum of four trainees in technical progression in canyoning ;
– the establishment retains the responsibility to reduce the number of trainees per instructor according to the situations encountered.
Clause 3. – The establishment demonstrates that it is part of the geographical area by :
– by demonstrating that canyoning is culturally linked to the geographical area in which the establishment is located ;
– by collaborating with professional organisations based in the geographical area because of their proximity and historical links with the discipline;
– by emphasising the correlation between the geographical area, the area of activity and the employment area;
– by organising practice on sites in the school’s geographical area and by having a set of practice sites enabling the school to provide most of its training in an environment less than an hour’s travel away. The school may, however, organise training modules at other geographical sites that are particularly suited to the teaching and technical requirements of the discipline.
Clause 4. – The establishment has the main technical equipment necessary for the training of trainees:
– be able to present the trainee with a variety of equipment in compliance with ethical rules, in order to make the trainee aware of the equipment, its management and maintenance. These elements are part of the culture of canyoning and must be included in the training;
– manage the personal protective equipment it owns and monitor the management of the trainees’ personal protective equipment;
– ensure that each group of trainees has the safety kit required by the establishment, as well as the equipment needed to activate the emergency services and provide first aid.
Clause 5. – The establishment enters into agreements and partnerships with other establishments, federations and professional bodies in the sector of activity.
Clause 6. – The establishment must demonstrate its knowledge of the structures hosting work-linked training trainees.
The establishment must demonstrate that it ensures the quality of tutoring through the obligations of the tutor, who must :
– relate the content of the training at the centre to the practical work situations offered to the trainee ;
– help the trainee to fit in at work;
– put the trainee in a position to welcome and inform the public;
– involve the trainee and then make him/her responsible for managing the equipment ;
– involve the trainee and then gradually make him/her responsible for leading a group in support of his/her own performance;
– validate the preparation of the trainee’s canyoning teaching activities organised and led independently by the trainee (within the limits of the 3/3/II classification);
– conduct debriefings for each outing;
– report on the trainee’s activities and assess them using a standardised tutored training logbook;
– inform the training organisation of any difficulties encountered by the trainee;
– at the end of the training, issue any advice that may be useful for the acquisition of skills throughout the training programme.
The establishment must check that, in order to take on the role of tutor, the professional fulfils the following conditions:
– be up to date with their regulatory obligations ;
– be able to provide proof of three years’ professional experience in canyoning;
– be able to offer canyoning to a wide range of people;
– be able to propose at least three different canyons for the training sessions;
– have taken part in a one-day tutorial training course;
– provide or facilitate access to an internet connection;
– hold a DEJEPS in canyoning or, failing that, one of the following qualifications (as set out in article 6 of the Order of 26 May 2010):
– brevet d’Etat d’éducateur sportif du 1er degré option escalade issued after 1st January 1997 ;
– brevet d’Etat d’éducateur sportif du 1er degré option spéléologie issued after 1st January 1997;
– diplôme d’aspirant guide du brevet d’Etat d’alpinisme assorti de l’attestation de stage canyon (aspiring mountain guide diploma from the French state mountaineering certificate) together with a canyoning course certificate issued until 1st July 2013;
– diplôme de guide de haute montagne du brevet d’Etat d’alpinisme issued between 1st January 1997 and 1st July 2013;
– Diplôme d’accompagnateur en moyenne montagne option moyenne montagne tropicale du brevet d’Etat d’alpinisme assorti du certificat de qualification complémentaire encadrement du canyon en milieu tropical ;
– certificate of qualification and aptitude for teaching canyoning.
The establishment draws up and implements the work-study monitoring tools that must be used, such as the tutored training logbook, which may include in particular :
– a first part reporting on the professional situations relating to the autonomous teaching situation known as the 1st level logbook;
– a second part, called the level 2 logbook, giving an account of the professional situations relating to the tutor’s support in his professional role;
– a third part reporting on professional situations relating to the design and coordination of the activity, known as the professional environment.
The school guarantees to monitor the distance learning logbook.
The establishment takes part in drawing up the national list of tutors drawn up with the federations and professional partners, who each year propose lists of tutors who are motivated to carry out this role and who meet the criteria.
Clause 7. – The school undertakes to take part in the coordination committee run by the sports department of the ministry responsible for sports.
Clause 8. – The establishment undertakes to put into practice the principles validated by the coordination committee in order to ensure a quality public training service, such as the harmonisation of the different phases of training, pedagogical implementation, certifications, techniques and practices taught and technologies used.
J. – Clauses specific to parachuting
Clause 1. – For the implementation and monitoring of the training courses, from a pedagogical point of view, the school has the following teaching team at its disposal:
– the school will give priority to mobilising its own resources in terms of technical and teaching staff specialised in the discipline and logistics. As a minimum, the coordination of each vocational training course implemented by the establishment is entrusted to a State technical and teaching staff member holding a State diploma as a 2nd degree sports educator, parachuting option, or a higher State diploma, specialising in sports performance, parachuting option;
– if this is not possible, the establishment will entrust administrative coordination to an employee of the establishment and will designate, by mutual agreement with the French Parachuting Federation, an educational and technical coordinator belonging to the national technical directorate attached to the federation;
– The teaching team is made up of technical managers from the federation, whose number of days of intervention and the number of hours per trainee are set by agreement, and of instructors who are subordinate to the school.
Clause 2. – The establishment must demonstrate that it is part of a geographical area as evidenced by :
– proximity between the training site and the practice sites ;
– a historical and cultural context favourable to training and the development of a culture specific to parachuting;
– Recognised expertise in parachuting training and investment in this activity;
– identification of the area of activity and its coherence with the resulting training offer;
– building a network with all the organisations involved in the discipline, both in terms of developing the activity and structuring and managing it.
Clause 3. – The establishment complies with all the provisions relating to establishments organising the practice of parachuting as set out in the French Sports Code.
Clause 4. – The establishment may enter into agreements with various partners.
The purpose of these agreements is to define the organisation and implementation of parachuting training, and the resulting obligations of each party.
Clause 5. – The school must demonstrate its knowledge of the structures hosting work-study trainees.
The school must ensure that the company training agreement exists. This agreement sets out the conditions for work experience under tutoring. It is co-signed by the director of the training organisation, the head of the structure, the tutor and the trainee.
The establishment sets specifications for the host organisations. Host organisations wishing to receive a trainee for parachuting training must comply with these specifications in order to ensure that the trainee is put in the best possible position to succeed in his or her training.
The establishment must demonstrate that it ensures the quality of the tutoring through the tutor’s obligations.
Thus, for the tutoring phases of in-flight activities, the tutor must hold the valid rating corresponding to the trainee’s activity. The tutor may supervise a maximum of two trainees, as defined in the company work placement agreement. The tutor must :
– relate the content of the training at the centre to the practical work situations proposed to the trainee;
– help the trainee to find his place in the workplace;
– put the trainee in a position to welcome and inform the public;
– involve the trainee, train him/her and then gradually give him/her responsibility for leading jumping sessions and using the various logistical resources of the centre;
– conduct assessment sessions at the end of one or more of the trainee’s activities;
– during the in-company training, give any advice that may be useful for the acquisition of skills throughout the training programme and inform the training organisation of any difficulties encountered by the trainee;
– take part in the ongoing assessment of the trainee and in assessments leading to certification, where this is provided for in the assessment process leading to certification.
The establishment must check that, in order to take on the role of tutor, the professional fulfils the following conditions:
– be up to date with his regulatory obligations ;
– be willing to perform the duties of tutor;
– have a contractual relationship with the host organisation and undertake to be present at the organisation during the phases in which he/she is required to be present when the trainee is in instructional supervision phases on the ground and in the air;
– have taken part in an information session – or even a training session – on tutoring, and can provide proof of suitable experience;
– hold one of the following qualifications: BPJEPS specialising in parachuting; brevet d’Etat d’éducateur sportif du 1er degré ou 2e option parachutisme; DEJEPS specialising in sports development with a mention of parachuting; DESJEPS specialising in sports performance with a mention of parachuting.
The establishment draws up and implements the work-study monitoring tools that must be used:
– computer applications to define, for each trainee, the content to be covered and the skills to be acquired during the various phases of the training;
– the liaison booklet, which is a document given to the trainee at the start of the work-linked training phase. It is used by the team of trainers. This involves at least one personalised feedback session with each trainee and with the tutor. The liaison log is filled in by the trainee and the tutor in real time, and can be consulted by the various signatories to the agreement. The tutor keeps this liaison tool between the two training centres up to date. This liaison booklet is designed on the basis of the training objectives and content. It is produced by the trainers and tutors. A meeting prior to the start of the training must clarify the methods of intervention between these two partners;
– the tools used and the description of the strategy for monitoring the on-the-job training are attached to the training booklet issued by the training organisation.
The school ensures that the trainee is properly positioned within the host organisation. The trainee remains under the responsibility of the tutor, who must give him precise instructions and provide regular supervision. The tutor cannot leave the trainee completely on his own and must supervise him by means of instructions, defined objectives and precise conditions of exercise. In particular, the level of intervention and degree of autonomy must be commensurate with the level of competence acquired.
The establishment must ensure that trainees are protected in terms of safety. The training organisation and the host structure must set an example in terms of safety. It is essential to be particularly vigilant about compliance with the rules and to take a positive and dynamic approach in this area.
Clause 6. – The school undertakes to take part in the coordination committee run by the Sports Department of the Ministry of Sport.
Clause 7. – The school undertakes to put into practice the principles validated by the coordination committee in order to ensure a quality public training service.
K. – Clauses specific to sailing beyond 200 nautical miles from a shelter:
Clause 1. – For the implementation and monitoring of training courses in terms of teaching and safety, the establishment has a teaching team made up of a teaching and technical coordinator who is a technical and teaching staff member belonging to the establishment and holding a diploma allowing him/her to supervise the sailing discipline in a specific environment.
In exceptional circumstances, the coordinating role may be entrusted to a sports teacher holding a DEJEPS or BEES 2nd degree in the discipline.
The school seeks expertise in setting up and running the teaching team.
The school involves the national technical directorate in training engineering.
Clause 2. – The school demonstrates that it is part of a geographical area through :
– a geographical base that provides direct access to a sailing area that allows sailing beyond 200 nautical miles without having to organise prior relocation of the course;
– a suitable natural environment and a professional context in line with the specific environmental qualifications.
Clause 3. – The establishment must comply with the trainee supervision rates determined in this way.
This supervision rate varies according to the teaching situations encountered, but during training periods on the water, a distinction must be made between :
– practice periods not exceeding one day, where the supervision rate is chosen by the training coordinator within the limits required by the standards in force ;
– instructional time during offshore sailing, where the supervision rate will be two supervisors for a maximum of six trainees.
Clause 4. – The establishment must have the technical equipment needed to train the trainees, which is a fundamental element in the culture of safety on the high seas.
The establishment must be able to have access to a navigational support that allows the trainees to sail beyond 200 nautical miles and that is suitable for boarding the trainees in training. The establishment must also be able to show trainees a variety of equipment, to make them aware of how to use, manage and maintain it, particularly in terms of safety, maritime radio links and navigational aids.
The establishment must also have a collection of documents available to trainees to help them develop their knowledge of the activity from a historical, technical, sporting and environmental point of view.
Clause 5. – The institution draws its legitimacy from its ability to offer training dedicated to safety at sea (survival training, meteorology training, medical training, training linked to interpersonal relations on board, etc.).
The institution also draws its legitimacy from its ability to carry out studies or research in the field of safety in nautical activities at the request of the public authorities in charge of these issues and those involved in rescue at sea.
Clause 6. – The establishment enters into partnerships and agreements.
The establishment is responsible for all accredited training and must retain full control over it.
The establishment enters into partnerships with other public establishments, federations and professional bodies in the sector of activity.
These partnership agreements relate in particular to equipment and the skills to be sought.
Clause 7. – The school demonstrates its knowledge of the structures for hosting work-linked training trainees.
The school demonstrates that it is close to the work-linked training structures by compiling a list of them and being aware of their capacity to host trainees and the availability of tutors.
The school organises relations with tutors by :
– drawing up a work-linked training charter setting out the terms of collaboration between the establishment and the tutors;
– requiring the tutors to carry out at least one interim and one final assessment with the work-linked trainee. During the in-company training and at the time of the assessments, the tutors must inform the training centres of any problems encountered;
– the obligation to involve them in the certification process;
– their participation, in part, in the DEJEPS framework training.
Clause 8. – The establishment undertakes to take part in the coordination committee run by the Sports Department of the Ministry of Sports.
Clause 9. – The school puts into practice the principles validated by the coordination committee in order to ensure a quality public service, such as the harmonisation of the different phases of training, pedagogical implementation, certifications, techniques and practices taught and technologies used.
