National Caving Association

Equipment Committee

Here you will find information about, and copies of documents relating to, the business of the Committee. The purpose of these pages is to provide a cost effective means by which Committee papers can be published to the people to whom we are accountable - and that includes all cavers in the UK.

Agendas and invitations to meetings are generally only circulated to committee delegates and others who are invited to attend. However, anyone can attend meetings as an observer - the dates of meetings can be found in the UK National Caving Diary.

Minutes of Equipment Committee meetings

see Meetings Page

Anchor replacement programme

NCA Anchor Replacement Policy

Further details of the programme in the Yorkshire Dales can be found on the CNCC Technical Group's Web Pages

The following reports and others of interest can be found on the Technical Section of the BMC Web Site

Risk of carabiner failure when using figure 8 descender
Low load breakage of Stubai Genius carabiner

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National Caving Association

Equipment Committee

Minutes of Equipment Committee meetings

Anchor replacement programme

Rope testing programme

Policy on fixed aids

Equipment safety reports, recalls etc.