Preventing Fatal Incidents in School and Youth Group Camps and Excursions: Understanding the Unthinkable...

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Andrew Brookes

Preventing Fatal Incidents in School and Youth Group Camps and Excursions

Understanding the Unthinkable

Andrew Brookes

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Springer International Publishing AG
18 May 2018

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Series: International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education

This book approaches the prevention of fatal incidents in outdoor education and related fields through detailed study of past tragedies. Although safety in many fields is built on accumulated lessons from past incidents, tragedies on school or youth group camps and excursions are so infrequent and so widely scattered that knowledge from previous incidents can elude those who would benefit. Nevertheless, the emergence of unlearned lessons from the past weighs heavily when those affected by a tragedy judge whether an incident should have been prevented. This book provides a foundation for a detailed and comprehensive understanding of fatality prevention in outdoor education, and in youth camps and excursions. It compiles, examines, and analyses information on fatal incidents that have occurred over many decades, involving many kinds of groups and endeavours, from around the globe. No previous work has attempted this task.

By: Andrew Brookes
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2018 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 565g
ISBN: 9783319898803
ISBN 10: 3319898809
Series: International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education
Pages: 241
Publication Date: 18 May 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Lessons learned and Janus Face of accident case study.- Chapter 3. Strict aversion to fatal incidents as a standard.- Chapter 4. Multiple fatality incidents on school and youth group camps and excursions – water-based activities: Lessons for prevention.- Chapter 5. School and youth group camp and excursion catastrophic events on land: Lessons for prevention.- Chapter 6. Single fatalities on school or youth group camps and excursions: Lessons for prevention from Australia and the UK.- Chapter 7. OE fatality prevention at an organisational level.- Chapter 8. Preventing fatal incidents.

Reviews for Preventing Fatal Incidents in School and Youth Group Camps and Excursions: Understanding the Unthinkable

This is a book that should sit dog-eared on the desk or shelf of everyone who claims to be involved in outdoor education: instructor, tertiary educator, school teacher, youth group leader and trustee/board member. It is a book that needs to be read and reread and the learning digested to ensure that avoidable fatalities from the past are not repeated. (Mike Brown, Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education, December, 2019) I am familiar with Brookes' previous work on fatality prevention, this book has been influential partly as refresher, and partly due to the new insights which situate fatality prevention within wider safety discourses. ... There is no one who has worked to this end so comprehensively and with such dedication. Brookes has inspired others, including myself, to make changes to our practice. This book continues the trajectory of this project and its impact may well provide a small solace to those grieving. (Chris North, Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, December, 2018)