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WHY RAID? 1001 REASONS TO PARTNER WITH RAID

We can’t tell how many reasons you’ll have once you start a business partnership with Dive RAID International as your agency of choice.

Who knows, it might be more than 1001. Download the WHY RAID? brochure by clicking the image below and find out just why you should join the RAID family. To enquire about crossing over to RAID click the RAID Membership Crossover button on this page.

PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LIABILITY

The role of a training agency is a complex one: part publishing house, part marketing agency, part risk management group, and part of about a dozen other things. Every aspect of an agency’s job description carries equal importance. What is dynamic and constantly shifting is the weighting of one task above another as the various challenges of running a business unfold. Right now, it seems appropriate to focus on risk management. 

But there are serious risk implications associated with that involvement. When RAID was first formed, one of the differences we decided to offer was a comprehensive and dynamic quality assurance system (QA). The thinking was that if we could <survey> every student as they finished their training, it would help establish a training audit trail, and that would be a good thing. 

Today, as the original QA System has been refined and improved, we believe it offers our members and their students the most complete protection available in the industry. 

Students and their instructors MUST confirm that the required skills were taught during the class and furthermore that the student feels comfortable performing them. In addition—and also highly important—each student (and instructor) is asked to complete the online dive log for training dives. (A dive log from a PDC may also be uploaded.) This also helps confirm the course minimum instruction time and the minimum number of dives that were completed as required. 

For you and your student to take full advantage of the benefits of RAID’s QA System, you must explain to each student how the system works, their role and responsibilities, and why <sense-checking> the thoroughness of their training protects them… and you. It is in your best interest to make sure your students complete both the end-of-course survey AND that they log their training dives in the RAID online system. 

In the event of a former student deciding to question the value of their training or to accuse their instructor of delivering a sub-standard course, the entry in the QA System is a concrete defense. Of course, this type of accusation is rare, but RAID HQ’s training department has been approached on a few occasions by certified divers who complain about missed modules or lapses of standards. In every case, the student’s original declaration in the end-of-course survey, has been an invaluable defence. 

We believe that RAID’s unique QA System would also offer a safety cushion for our members in the event of serious legal action against them and the agency. 

PLEASE invest the few minutes it takes to make sure your students fully understand how to use RAID’s QA System, the protection it affords them, and its benefits to everyone involved in their training. 

Thank you

ABC DIVING TECHREATIONAL CENTRE JOIN RAID

We are pleased to announce that ABC Diving TECHreational Centre have joined the ever-expanding community of quality RAID centres.

Based in Turtle Bay, near St. Pauls Bay in Malta, they cater to a vast range of divers and fully embrace the teaching philosophy of RAID, having invested in Halcyon back plates and wings, and long hose regulators, they are ready to dive the RAID way.

With a highly experienced, dynamic, diverse and professional team, they will be delivering courses and promoting the high standards laid down by us.

Malta & Gozo are the ideal places to learn to dive with RAID and the environment lends itself very well to all levels of training. Whether you are a complete novice, or a seasoned diver, check out our courses and what ABC and RAID can offer you! They will take your diving to a whole new level.

Please join us in welcoming ABC … who don’t just dive – they DiveRAID.