ASTM International

Standard Guide for Evaluating Trailing Search Dog Crews or Teams
 N F3144

Annotation

This guide defines the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for a dog crew or team to perform a trailing search.

Trailing search dog crews or teams perform searches on the surface of the land, including open urban or wilderness areas, as well as mountainous terrain, and alpine environments.

Additional training shall be required for trailing search dog crews or teams that search in mountainous terrain, alpine environments, and in caves, mines, and tunnels.

This guide does not include the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to search in partially or fully collapsed structures, confined spaces, or on bodies of water, inland or oceanic.

Trailing search dog crews or teams trained to meet the requirements of this guide may operate in urban and disaster areas that may be isolated, or have lost their infrastructure.

Trailing search dog crews or teams must work under qualified supervision deemed appropriate by the AHJ.

Search dog crews or teams are eligible to be members of Type I and II SAR crews or teams of the following Kinds, as defined in Classification F1993:

Kind A (Wilderness);

Kind B (Urban);

Kind C (Mountainous);

Kind G (Cave);

Kind H (Mine);

Kind I (Avalanche);