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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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How to use a River Rescue Life Jacket

Learn how to use a kayak river rescue life jacket in this free how to video about kayak river rescues...
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How to Use Climbing Anchors as a Leading Climber

Sport Climbing trainer Chris Lindner shows you several climbing anchors and explains how to use them...
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Human Error Accidents in Adventure Activities: Cause and prevention

This article by Marcus Bailie from the Adventure Activities Licensing Authority in the UK explores Human...
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Hybrid Roll Identifier

If you suspect that you are doing a combination of the rolls you have viewed in this series, you need...
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Hygiene & LNT Protocols: Outdoor Action Program

This is a section from the Princeton University Outdoor Action Program Leader's Manual which covers...
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