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The Supervision Paradox
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If a professional is at the same time “a hired hand” and “master of one’s fate”, how does an organization manage this paradox? How is it possible to ‘supervise’ the ‘hired hand’, yet ‘un-supervise’ to allow flexibility and judgment?
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The Delusion of Learning from Experience
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Date added: 06/11/2008 Hits: 20 |
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This provocative statement pin points the fundamental flaw the outdoor industry’s current Risk Management (RM) model is built on. Common belief in the outdoor trip leading world is that experience is a guide’s most valuable tool...
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SCIRA - Systems Complexity Index Risk Analysis
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The emerging systems based approach to risk management planning has altered the way we conceive, organize and implement risk systems. The System Complexity Index Risk Analysis (SCIRA) is a tool to objectively measure the stability of an organization’s risk management systems, and provides a completely different means of interpreting and managing risk events. By measuring the parameters of coupling and complexity, risk potential can be approached from a ‘macro’ level, as opposed to the existing hazard based approach, and is of use to administrators down to field level staff. |
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Organization Culture
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A ten point Organizational Culture Matrix can help define your company's underlying assumptions and beliefs, but more importantly it can be used as a tool to lay a solid foundation when working with partners. In particular, Public Private Partnerships need to identify and manage key cultural traits to ensure partnership success.
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Managing Risk - Equipment Chapter
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This is an excerpt from the outcoming book Managing Risk. This chapter deals with the the Equipment Management System one of the key systems of outdoor adventure program risk management. |
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Falling in Line with the Law
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by Kris Lines and Jon Heshka
Adults who choose to engage in physical activities which obviously give rise to a degree of unavoidable risk may find that they have no means of recompense if the risk materializes so that they are injured”. With these opening lines, the Court of Appeal reasserted a return to commonsense and traditional legal principles and dispelled the modern myth of a compensation culture in sport. Indeed, such a stance is particularly welcome in activities where the claimant has intentionally sought a risk and which eventuates with ultimately tragic consequences. |
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Bear Attack Article
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Date added: 11/14/2008 Hits: 11 |
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This is the most comprehensive Bear Attack reference article we've seen. Written by Steven P. French, M.D. for publication in the 4th Edition of the Wilderness Medicine.
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Accident Prevention
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This is an excerpt from Trip Tips: An Outdoor Planning Manual for Students. The chapter gives an overview of a number of accident theories such as Hale's Dynamics of Accidents Model followed by practical examples of how the model can be applied to an outdoor trip situation. The discussion also explores hazard evaluation and situational awareness as risk management strategies.
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