Standards improve quality, facilitate School affiliation & Instructor renewal Standards 07 Jul 2016 Read carefully these important updates applicable either from now or from September 2016. What’s effective now? School affiliation – special cases - See Article 9 General liability accepted in some specific countries like Brazil, Mexico and more. Rescue boat from third party accepted and rescue boat not required in some location after approval of IKO training department. Become Instructor Level 2 with at least 35 students/280 teaching hours - See Article 24 Become Instructor Level 2 Senior with at least 100 students/800 teaching hours. -See Article 29 Become Coach through 5-day Coach Course - See Article 35 Instructors expired for up to 2 years can attend an Instructor Equivalency Course (IEC) - See Article 57 Starting September 2016 Introducing new 5-day Assistant Instructor Course (AITC Plus) - See Article 19 Instructor Level 2 Senior renamed Instructor Level 3 - See Article 28 New 5-day Assistant Trainer Training Course (ATTC) that qualifies new Assistant Trainer to train up to 8 Assistant candidates simultaneously - See Article 43 READ STANDARDS 4.3 NOW