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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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  • Wilderness Medicine

    Defining Hypothermia

    Why is it taught that hypothermia occurs whenever someone is shivering or their temperature drops by a degree or two? I’ve read in several medical texts that the definition of hypothermia is a core body temperature below 95F(35C). (A question from a student...
  • Outdoor Education General

    What is the Future of Outdoor Education?

    A recent report published in the Proceedings of the National Academey of Sciences entitled Evidence for a fundamental and pervasive shift away from nature-based recreation by Oliver Pergams and Patricia Zaradic shows that after 50 years of steady increase...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    NOLS Incident Database Paper Published

    A new paper based on the National Outdoor Leadership School's Incident database has been published in the Journal of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine (18, 298-304(2007). It gives a perspective on injury and illness rates at NOLS from 2002-2005...
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Climbing as Therapy with Whitney Boland

In this video Whitney Boland talks about her life in Chattanooga, her relationship with a chronic disease...
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How to sharpen and maintain your ice screws

Advice about how to sharpen and maintain your ice screws. http://www.petzl.com
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Reinhold Messner Speaks at 2012 Winter Outdoor Retailer

Famed alpinist Reinhold Messner spoke at The American Alpine Club's reception at this year's (2012) WInter...
Posted to: Climbing & Mountaineering
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Yosemite HD

A spectacular journey through Yosemite National Park. This video is a collaboration between Sheldon Neill...
Posted to: Sustainability
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ICAR Consensus Guidelines on Mountain Emergency Medicine and Risk Reduction

All guidelines from IKAR MEDCOM and UIAA MEDCOM, Editor: Fidel Elsensohn, MD The book has been sold out...
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