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Latest Legal Case: Your Duty of Care—Where Does it Begin and End?

Duty of Care is the legal duty to protect another from harm. It is the first element that must be established to proceed with an action in negligence. When you bring a client into your program, you almost always establish some duty of care to that client. But where does this duty begin and where does it end? A recent sexual assault case in Maine where the assualt happened after the program explores this delicate legal issue and raises some critical questions for things that happen outside your program. Now that many programs are using social networking like Facebook pages, discussion forums, and Twitter as follow-up tools after a program, everyone should understand this legal issue. Reb Gregg and Catherine Hansen-Stamp, the legal authorities at the Adventure & Recreation Law Center, review the details of this Maine case. Subscribe now and gain access to the complete library of Legal Cases.

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  • Risk Management

    Climber 9-1-1

    The question of whether mountain climbers should be required to carry mobile communications devices has been a point of debate (and even legislation) since the high profile incident on Mt. Hood in Oregon that resulted in the deaths of three climbers and...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    New Guidelines for CPR & ECC, including NEW CPR sequence

    American Heart Association (AHA) Announces New CPR Sequence in 2010 AHA Guidelines for CPR & Emergency Cardiovascular Care No More A-B-Cs; now its C-A-B! For more than 40 years, we've learned the ABCs of CPR - Airway, Breathing and Compressions...
  • GREENFIRE

    A Call for Better Scholarship in Graduate Outdoor Education

    It's another year and once again my in-box is full of survey requests from well-meaning students in various outdoor education graduate programs. Over the last 10 years, I must have completed fifty of these and I am beginning to wonder about their...
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Deep Water Safety Course - The 7 W's of Sea Kayaking

The 7 W's of Sea Kayaking is designed to be an instructional tool for programs that rent Sea Kayaks...
Posted to: Paddle Sports
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Deeper - Backing Down - Recco safety tips with Jeremy Jones

This clip from Teton Gravity Research's film Deeper shows extreme boarder Jeremy Jones. When in the...
Posted to: Backcountry Winter Sports
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Discovery Channel's Raging Planet - Lightning Part 2

This video from Discovery Channel's amazing "Raging Planet" series uses super slow motion...
Posted to: Nature & Environment
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Dr. Luanne Freer: Everest ER

The Everest Base Camp Medical Clinic, is a project of the Himalayan Rescue Association-USA (US based...
Posted to: First Aid
by 367

Dr. Tom Hornbein - Entries from the Top: An Everest Journal

Featured in the American Mountaineering Museum, this video series asks Mt Everest climbers why they climb...
Posted to: Climbing & Mountaineering
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