ACCT International Seeks Volunteers to Participate in a Standards Development Project
ACCT International is seeking stakeholders and materially affected parties to apply to participate in a standards development project to revise ANSI/ACCT 03-2019. ACCT posted notification of its initiation of new standards activities on September 5, 2025 through ANSI's Standards Action, the ACCT website, and its media channels. ACCT is currently soliciting volunteers to serve on a Standards Writing Group and to convene a Consensus Body.
Ways to Participate.
Apply to the Consensus Body.
The Consensus Body is a group of individuals approved by ACCT to develop and reach consensus on ACCT’s proposed American National Standards (ANS) in accordance with ANSI’s Essential Requirements (ER) and ACCT’s Accredited Procedures (AP). Participation in the Consensus Body is open to all materially-affected persons and organizations. Membership on the Consensus Body must be balanced so that no single interest category, organization, or individual dominates the decision-making process. The Consensus Body operates using due process, ensuring openness, fairness, and the opportunity for all materially affected persons to be heard.
Need. ACCT is seeking up to fifteen (15) volunteers to serve on its Consensus Body.
For more information and to apply to the Consensus Body. For more information on the Consensus Body, to download ACCT's Accredited Procedures (formerly known as "Procedures for Organization, Development, and Maintenance of Challenge Course Standards by the ACCT International," and to apply to be a member of the Consensus Body, please visit https://acctinfo.org/ansiasd.
Apply to participate in the Standards Writing Group tasked with drafting the revision.
ACCT is soliciting volunteers to participate in a standards writing group that will produce a draft revision of the standards for public review and to help resolve any comments submitted during the public review.
Need. 5-10 volunteers with knowledge, expertise, and/or ability relevant to developing a draft standard.
For more information and to apply to the Standards Writing Group. Interested parties should submit a volunteer application. For those seeking to be a member of a Standards Writing Group that has not yet been convened, enter “TIRE/Standards Writing Task Groups” and list the areas of standards you would be interested in working on in response to the question, “Do you have an idea of the volunteer group(s) you would like to get involved with?”
Overview of the Standards Development Project
The following overview of the project is an excerpt from the notice published in ANSI's Standards Action on September 5, 2025.
ACCT International
RevisionBSR/ACCT 03-202x, Challenge Courses and Canopy / Zip Line Tours Standards(revision of ANSI/ACCT 03-2019)
Interest Categories: Producer, Servicer, User - Commercial, User - Educational, General Interest.
This document represents the minimum consensus practices for Challenge Course, Aerial Adventure/Trekking Park, Canopy Tour, and Zip Line Tour professionals. The information presented here is to be used by designers, installers, and inspectors in the creation and maintenance of courses. Owners, operators, and trainers are expected to use the standards to operate facilities for participants. In order, the three chapters establish requirements for the design, performance, and inspection of elements and associated equipment, establish minimum operational procedures and staff competencies, and establish requirements intended to enable course owner/operators to design and deliver training that meets the minimum industry standards and provide necessary content for staff.
Project need: Revise standards to enhance consistency in terminology, structure, and application, with integration of evolving industry practices and technological developments
Stakeholders: Members of the Producer and Servicer interest categories, internally referred to as Vendors, include designers, builders, inspectors, trainers, equipment manufacturers, and service providers for the challenge course and zip line / canopy tour industry. User categories, internally referred to as Operators, include owner/operators, facilitators, guides, monitors, and other staff at operations that provide challenge course programming and zip line / canopy tours, either as a commercial, recreational, or educational service. Other materially affected entities include regulatory agencies, trade associations that don't represent Vendors or Operators, standards writing organizations, consumer and environmental groups, researchers, and members of the general public.