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Safety Science for Outdoor & Experiential Education
What can outdoor & experiential education programs learn from firefighters, astronauts, or emergency room doctors? In the past century, safety researchers have discovered many strategies that should inform how we think about risk management in outdoor and experiential education. To build quality, efficiency, and resiliency, we must understand and embrace how different industries operate in complex, hazardous environments.
Safety Science embraces research to help us build a better approach to risk management. This book - unique in our field - distills the last century of safety science into a coherent and engaging story, and then applies those concepts to outdoor and experiential education programs with an eye to the future. Using case studies, personal stories, models, and targeted questions, this book takes readers on a journey through the past to better understand our present, and envision the future.
Safety Science embraces research to help us build a better approach to risk management. This book - unique in our field - distills the last century of safety science into a coherent and engaging story, and then applies those concepts to outdoor and experiential education programs with an eye to the future. Using case studies, personal stories, models, and targeted questions, this book takes readers on a journey through the past to better understand our present, and envision the future.
290 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 8, 2026
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April 6, 2026
As a new COO of a school and church, this book felt incredibly timely and relevant to my work. Specifically, it’s helped me grapple with how we can work within the confines of HR, legal, and operations in a way that actually helps create positive risk taking and learning environments that are joyful and physically and psychologically safe for both kids and adults.
It also challenged me to look at my own biases, especially hindsight bias and the way I ask questions in a debrief. It pushed me to think more carefully about how we learn from situations without oversimplifying or assigning blame.
My dog-eared and underlined copy is now an important part of my professional development library. A 10/10!
It also challenged me to look at my own biases, especially hindsight bias and the way I ask questions in a debrief. It pushed me to think more carefully about how we learn from situations without oversimplifying or assigning blame.
My dog-eared and underlined copy is now an important part of my professional development library. A 10/10!
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