Risk Management for Outdoor Programs Online Training Course for Outdoor Professionals
Training Provider(s): Viristar
Start Date: August 7, 2024
End Date: September 4, 2024
Details: 11:00 a.m. UTC+8
Location: Online
Training Type(s): Risk Management
Training Format(s): Online
Certification(s): Risk Management
Certification Duration: 3 years
Training Description
Risk Management for Outdoor Programs
Online Training Course for Outdoor Professionals
August 7 – September 4, 2024
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, Aug 7, 11:00 a.m. UTC+8
Wednesday, Aug 14, 11:00 a.m. UTC+8
Wednesday, Aug 21, 11:00 a.m. UTC+8
Wednesday, Aug 28, 11:00 a.m. UTC+8
Wednesday, Sept 4, 11:00 a.m. UTC+8
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, executive leadership.
The course is composed of five live video-conference sessions and three independent work periods:
1. 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.
2. 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. Syllabus Download a PDF version of the syllabus here. 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 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 successfully complete the final exam receive a certificate from Viristar valid for three years. Previous Participants Say:
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. Syllabus Download a PDF version of the syllabus here. 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 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 successfully complete the final exam receive a certificate from Viristar valid for three years. Previous Participants Say:
- “Viristar's Risk Management for Outdoor Programs course is intensive, thought-provoking, and designed to make one critically think about the adequacy of the existing risk management...useful for both novices as well as seasoned practitioners.” Syed Ismail, Assistant Director (Training) & Master Instructor, Outward Bound Singapore
- "This was a really beneficial course...it's given me the language I needed to deepen my understanding of risk management." Kate Johnston, Outdoor Education Specialist, United World Colleges, Southeast Asia
- "Viristar's Risk Management for Outdoor programs course is the most comprehensive risk management course I have completed...Highly recommended." Phil Austen-Smith, Expedition & remote programs facilitator/trainer, Oman
Training Location & Contact Information:
Location: Online
Phone: +1 206 473 8050
Contact Person: Jeff Baierlein
Email: [email protected]
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