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How Can We Manage Safety If We Don't Agree What It Is?
A recent study published in Safety Science provides an overview and summary of the schools of thought regarding how we define Safety.
UPDATED: Federal Government Layoffs and Executive Orders: Risk Management Implications
Last Update : April 6, 2025 - adding information about most recent Executive Order Anyone running an outdoor or experiential education...
How Cognitive Biases Short-Circuit Learning From Incidents
“Rather than perceiving time as a continuum, we tend to think about our lives as episodes, creating story arcs from the notable incidents...
Learning, Not Blaming, When Incidents Occur
The Blame Cycle Occupational Safety researcher James Reason describes a destructive cycle that organizations and people can find...
What happens if we fail to learn from our near-misses?
The Boeing 737 MAX crashes reveal an opportunity for outdoor program leadership to learn crucial lessons about systems thinking, near-miss r
Why Cheerleading for Safety Doesn't Work
"Simply asking people to care more doesn't create a system where there are less incidents. What scares me is that when we ask workers to...
Are We Learning (and Sharing) our Lessons in the Mountains?
By Joshua Cole “ The only real mistake is one from which we learn nothing ” I was in a rush the other day, and I can’t remember why, but...
Applying a Continuous Improvement Model to Stay Current with COVID-19 Protocols
Today (May 28, 2021), the CDC issued new COVID-19 guidance for summer camps, which reflects ongoing changes to which outdoor programs...
Focus on Near Misses to Cultivate a Culture of Risk Management
A group of teenage students on an overnight backpacking trip sit in a circle around a natural rock "table" in the Mojave desert, eating...
How "Safe" Do We Claim to be?
The Importance of Clarifying Risk Tolerance for Outdoor Programs Clarifying your organization’s risk philosophy is a nuanced but...
