The outings world has changed more in the past few years than at any time in memory. Our Angeles Chapter Safety Policy must keep up.

Download the 2020 AC Safety Policy Word doc or PDF. Approved July 2020

These changes conform policy with practice. For example: 

• Campfire Events is now listed as the default platform for posting outings. See guidance on when you use another Sierra Club publication method (newsletter, official Listserv, etc.). Note that Meetup is not an official Sierra Club publication method. Always start with a Sierra Club publication channel. 
• First aid certifications expire when the issuing agency says they do.
• We clarified the definition of the E rating, which governs our most adventurous mountaineering trips. The original language was written in the 1970s when rock-climbing standards were still in their infancy. Conforming with longtime practice among the Chapter’s climbing sections, the E rating {mountaineering} is now defined as “greater than class 3."

REMEMBER THAT --

A Sierra Club outing is a sanctioned Sierra Club activity in which a significant component is to take participants into the out-of-doors and meets one or more of the following criteria:

1) Group management, meaning participants cannot come or go as they please; missing persons are the Club’s responsibility;

2) Remoteness: the outing occurs in places where public emergency services cannot be obtained as quickly as in an urban area;

3) Responsibility for safety: Group safety is depending on the competent leadership and emergency performance of the leader.

See more in Campfire Community on this page: Policy Definition of a Sierra Club Outing .