Once you reach a L3 SPRAT certification, you're going to be responsible for supervising the job site, pre-planning, and a large list of other specific and highly important responsibilities. Your management and communication skills will be a critical part of your overall success in this role.

During your SPRAT Evaluation, L3 certifying techs will be asked to demonstrate their knowledge of how to manage the safety of other rope techs and the public through a closed book, multiple choice written test.

Your performance during the team scenario portion of your SPRAT field evaluation will also carry forward into this requirement -- and will be a more accurate signifier of your real world (and not just theoretical) management and communication skills. 

Your SPRAT Evaluator will specifically be watching that you... 

• understand the principles of clear communication, and are able to use the methods of verbal and non-verbal communication available to you (including hand signals, which will have been agreed upon by you and your team during pre-planning).
• are able to efficiently and safely direct and manage the other techs on your team as they collaboratively complete an assigned task.
• are able to effectively delegate responsibilities to appropriate team members (as a L3 tech, you're going to have a lot of responsibility so this skill is particularly important). 

It's also essential that you're comfortable with the language being used in the workplace (in our case, English) and are able to read, write, and speak it at an intermediate level, or ideally fluently. There may be some exceptions to this rule, but that will depend on your employer and whether they consider it a worthwhile investment to hire you in addition to a translator.