Risk Management for Outdoor Programs Online Training Course for Outdoor Professionals
Training Provider(s): Viristar
Start Date: March 5, 2025
End Date: April 2, 2025
Details: 11:00 a.m. UTC-4/-5
Location: Online
Training Type(s): Risk Management
Training Format(s): Online
Certification(s): Risk Management
Certification Duration: 3 years
Training Description
The course is a combination of five real-time video-conference sessions, spaced one week apart, and independent work periods between live sessions.
Five live online sessions:
Wednesday, Mar 5, 11:00 a.m. UTC-5
Wednesday, Mar 12, 11:00 a.m. UTC-4 (Daylight Saving Time begins)
Wednesday, Mar 19, 11:00 a.m. UTC-4
Wednesday, Mar 26, 11:00 a.m. UTC-4
Wednesday, Apr 2, 11:00 a.m. UTC-4
Independent individual and group work occurs between live sessions.
Outcomes: Gain critical knowledge of best practices in outdoor program risk management
Learn procedures, systems, and plans essential to meeting key outdoor safety standards
Understand how to apply successful risk management strategies to adventure programs, experiential education, wilderness expeditions, and outdoor trips
Valuable for: Program Coordinators/Managers, Risk Management officers, Risk Management/Safety Committee members, members of Boards of Directors, and executive leadership.
The course is composed of five live video-conference sessions and three independent work periods:
Live sessions: Five live, video-conference sessions, occurring the same day and time each week, for five consecutive weeks. These include structured real-time small-group and large-group discussions and participant project presentations.
Independent work: Between live video-conferences, there are four-week-long independent work periods for individual and remote small-group activity.
This work includes:
- Review of pre-recorded slide presentations with presenter video
- Completion of readings
- Participation in online discussion forums
- Participation in interactive video-based decision-making activities
- Completion of writing assignments (including writing risk management plan outline and strategic improvement plan content)
- Peer review of select classmate writing content
- Completion of organizational self-assessment of risk management
- Completion of online worksheets
- Participation in online risk decision-making role-playing scenario
- Structured analysis of case-study examples
- Completion of quizzes and final exam
Independent work is anticipated to take a minimum of 10-12 hours per week.
Registration:
Fee: $649 US dollars
Registration Information:
Trainer/Facilitator: Jeff Baierlein, Director, Viristar; past Executive Director at Outward Bound USA Language: English Cost: USD $649 individual enrollment. Course fee includes five live sessions, materials for independent work sessions, lifetime access to an electronic, online-based copy of the course textbook Risk Management for Outdoor Programs: A Guide to Safety in Outdoor Education, Recreation and Adventure, and certification. Textbook: The course textbook is Risk Management for Outdoor Programs: A Guide to Safety in Outdoor Education, Recreation and Adventure (https://courses.viristar.com/book/). This 218-page text is provided to each student in an electronic online-based format. Certification: Participants take four short quizzes throughout the course and a final written exam. Individuals who fully participate in learning activities and complete the final exam receive a certificate from Viristar valid for three years.
Trainer/Facilitator: Jeff Baierlein, Director, Viristar; past Executive Director at Outward Bound USA Language: English Cost: USD $649 individual enrollment. Course fee includes five live sessions, materials for independent work sessions, lifetime access to an electronic, online-based copy of the course textbook Risk Management for Outdoor Programs: A Guide to Safety in Outdoor Education, Recreation and Adventure, and certification. Textbook: The course textbook is Risk Management for Outdoor Programs: A Guide to Safety in Outdoor Education, Recreation and Adventure (https://courses.viristar.com/book/). This 218-page text is provided to each student in an electronic online-based format. Certification: Participants take four short quizzes throughout the course and a final written exam. Individuals who fully participate in learning activities and complete the final exam receive a certificate from Viristar valid for three years.
Training Location & Contact Information:
Location: Online
Phone: +1 206 473 8050
Contact Person: Jeff Baierlein
Email: [email protected]
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