Risk Management in the Outdoors 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
9 - Technology, risk and outdoor programming
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
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
Michael HarringtonWe are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt (2002)The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill GatesFocus questions
What goes into your backpack for an outdoor trip? What stays out? How do you decide? Why?
In the pursuit of safety and risk management through technological aid are we losing our independence and connection with the outdoors?
Are modern day ‘adventurers’ over-reliant on ‘gadgets’ and ‘gizmos’ to buffer their inadequacies or for legal requirements?
Are modern electronic devices innocuous or intrusive?
What technologies can be used to help administer, operate and market outdoor programs?
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- Risk Management in the OutdoorsA Whole-of-Organisation Approach for Education, Sport and Recreation, pp. 164 - 182Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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