Viristar are excited to partner with ISEEN to bring you our Risk Management for Outdoor Programs course, which provides a comprehensive training on safety management for outdoor and experiential professionals. This session will take place from August 7, 2024 to September 9 4, 2024.

Risk Management for Outdoor Programs

Gain critical knowledge of best practices in outdoor program risk management. Learn procedures, systems, and plans essential to meeting key outdoor safety standards.

Description:
The course is suitable for managers and those with administrative or other leadership responsibilities for experiential, outdoor, wilderness, adventure, or travel programs. The course takes place online.

Course Components:
The course is composed of both self-study and video-conference sessions. These live calls include seminar-style discussions, participant presentations, question and answer periods, and learning activities held in large and small groups. In between video-conference sessions are Independent Work Periods. During these times participants complete independent work including readings, video presentations, quizzes, discussion forums, video-based role-play simulations, assessments, and writing assignments such as a Risk Management Plan outline.

Course topics include:
● Laws
● Safety standards
● Human factors
● Equipment
● Transportation
● Insurance
● Safety audits
● Systems thinking
● and much more

Download a PDF version of the syllabus here.

Outcomes:

you can expect to:

● Gain critical knowledge of best practices in outdoor program risk management.
● Learn procedures, systems and plans essential to meeting key outdoor safety standards.
● Understand how to apply successful risk management strategies to adventure programs, experiential
education, wilderness expeditions, and outdoor trips.

Textbook:
The course includes lifetime access to an electronic, online-based copy of the course textbook Risk Management for Outdoor Programs: A Guide to Safety in Outdoor Education, Recreation and Adventure. 

Certification:
Participants take short quizzes throughout the course and a final written exam. Individuals who fully participate in learning activities and successfully complete the final exam receive a certificate from Viristar valid for three years.

Enrollment Options
Use the password “ISEEN2020” to access the preferential partner rates below.

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