Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 An introduction to risk, adventure and risk management
- 2 Organisational sustainability and risk management
- 3 The legal context for outdoor activities and programs
- 4 The organisational context of risk management
- 5 The real physical risks: putting it into perspective
- 6 Program design and activity selection
- 7 Program evaluation
- 8 Risk communication
- 9 Technology, risk and outdoor programming
- 10 Severe weather
- 11 Learning from injury surveillance and incident analysis
- Appendix Examples of risk analyses
- Index
11 - Learning from injury surveillance and incident analysis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 An introduction to risk, adventure and risk management
- 2 Organisational sustainability and risk management
- 3 The legal context for outdoor activities and programs
- 4 The organisational context of risk management
- 5 The real physical risks: putting it into perspective
- 6 Program design and activity selection
- 7 Program evaluation
- 8 Risk communication
- 9 Technology, risk and outdoor programming
- 10 Severe weather
- 11 Learning from injury surveillance and incident analysis
- Appendix Examples of risk analyses
- Index
Summary
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong, How to Save your Own Life, 1977Focus questions
What is an acceptable level of physical risk in your context? Who considered and determined that the risk is acceptable: management, participants, society?
How can you determine the level of physical risks in your activity or program?
On what basis do you design and implement strategies to improve physical safety?
How can culture, organisational learning, learning organisations and knowledge management support injury prevention outcomes?
How can you assess whether injury prevention strategies are having an impact?
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Risk Management in the OutdoorsA Whole-of-Organisation Approach for Education, Sport and Recreation, pp. 204 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011