Protecting the Public - Canadian Avalanche Association

Protecting the Public

The CAA works to ensure that Canadians have the highest degree of confidence in the avalanche safety programs and services delivered by CAA members. We strive to ensure that our diverse membership of avalanche practitioners meet the highest standards and adhere to best practices. We protect the public interest by ensuring members adhere to the CAA's Code of Ethics and by offering a complaints process to offer recourse where members have failed to meet their ethical obligations.

Discipline and Enforcement

The association enforces standards of conduct

and investigates when a member has fallen below

those standards.

Complaints Against Members

The association investigates complaints against

members for failure to meet their professional

and ethical obligations.

Learn more about our complaints process.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Practice standards for avalanche work change.

CAA members are required to actively participate

in continuing education to remain competent

and current throughout their careers in their

chosen fields of practice.

InfoEx

The CAA's InfoEx is a daily exchange of technical

snow, weather, avalanche and terrain information

between subscribers. InfoEx enables professional

operations to greatly improve their understanding

of avalanche hazard allowing more accurate

forecasting and higher quality risk management.

InfoEx is a key source of data used by

Avalanche Canada to produce its public

avalanche bulletins.

Resources for the Public

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