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Risk Management for Outdoor Programs: A Guide to Safety in Outdoor Education, Recreation and Adventure
The acclaimed textbook Risk Management for Outdoor Programs: A Guide to Safety in Outdoor Education, Recreation and Adventure is available for purchase in paperback and eBook format.
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Your outdoor, experiential or travel program provides fun, personal growth, adventure. It changes lives. But are your safety systems up to standards? If something happens, are you prepared to respond?
Risk Management for Outdoor Programs: A Guide to Safety in Outdoor Education, Recreation and Adventure provides essential knowledge for any adventure or outdoor professional. Program managers, executives, volunteers and group leaders will learn critical approaches and strategies for successfully anticipating and addressing risks.
Packed with real-life stories, current research findings, and good practice guidance, Risk Management for Outdoor Programs: a Guide to Safety in Outdoor Education, Recreation and Adventure gives expert advice on:
- Approaches to Risk Management
- Standards
- Legal Considerations
- Safety Culture
- Activities and Program Areas
- Staff
- Equipment
- Participants
- Subcontractors
- Transportation
- Business Administration
- Risk Transfer
- Incident Management
- Incident Reporting
- Incident Reviews
- Risk Management Committee
- Medical Screening
- Risk Management Reviews
- Media Relations
- Documentation
- Accreditation
- Seeing Systems
Use the button below to download a 15-page sample of the book, including Contents, Preface, and Introduction.
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Price: USD 59
Author: Jeff A. Baierlein
Publisher: Viristar (March 21, 2019)
Sold by: Amazon
Language: English
Paperback
Length: 218 pages
Item Weight: .75 kg | 1.65 pounds
Dimensions: 21.6 x 1.4 x 28 cm | 8.5 x 0.54 x 11 inches
ISBN-10: 1733349111
ISBN-13: 978-1733349116
OCLC Number: 1273556703
eBook
The e-book edition, a Kindle e-book download, is available for virtually all devices, including Android, iPhone, tablets, Mac and PC, with the free Kindle app.
Features of this print replica edition include:
- Notes and highlights
- Search, copy and paste
- Zoom and pan
- Pop-out linked table-of-contents
- Page numbers matching print edition
Widely Applicable
Risk Management for Outdoor Programs: A Guide to Safety in Outdoor Education, Recreation and Adventure is used in university classrooms, educational travel programs, adventure tourism operations, search and rescue, adventure centers, outdoor education and forest schools, camps, wilderness therapy programs, park and recreation settings, and more.
About the Author
Jeff Baierlein (he/him) is the director of the consultancy Viristar, providing safety, curriculum, and strategy services to outdoor, adventure, travel, and experiential programs worldwide.
Jeff began working as an outdoor and adventure professional in 1987. He has over 1000 field days leading mountaineering, sailing, whitewater and flatwater canoeing, backpacking, whitewater and sea kayaking, rock climbing, canyoning and caving expeditions up to three months in length.
Jeff is the former Executive Director of Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School and of the Boojum Institute for Experiential Education. He has worked as an EMT and on Search and Rescue teams, leading rescues in North America and Asia.
Jeff has provided risk management reviews, expert witness services, incident reviews, and safety trainings for organizations in over 70 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, South America, and Africa.
Jeff lives on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people in Seattle, Washington, USA.
