Preventing Fatal Incidents in School and Youth Group Camps and Excursions Understanding the Unthinkable /

• Main Author: Brookes, Andrew (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education,
• Subjects: Learning.; Instruction.; Educational psychology.; Education-Psychology.; Educational sociology.; Teaching.; Learning & Instruction.; Educational Psychology.; Sociology of Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.

This book approaches the prevention of fatal incidents in outdoor education and related fields through detailed study of past tragedies. Although safety in many fields is built on accumulated lessons from past incidents, tragedies on school or youth group camps and excursions are so infrequent and s...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Lessons learned and Janus Face of accident case study
• Chapter 3. Strict aversion to fatal incidents as a standard
• Chapter 4. Multiple fatality incidents on school and youth group camps and excursions - water-based activities: Lessons for prevention
• Chapter 5. School and youth group camp and excursion catastrophic events on land: Lessons for prevention
• Chapter 6. Single fatalities on school or youth group camps and excursions: Lessons for prevention from Australia and the UK
• Chapter 7. OE fatality prevention at an organisational level
• Chapter 8. Preventing fatal incidents.