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Place-Based Fatality Prevention in Action
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posted on 2023-05-22, 20:27 authored by Marcus MorseMarcus Morse, Bester, L, Morse, P, Mangelsdorf, AThrough this chapter we reflect on enacting a fatality prevention approach to safety management in outdoor environmental education. Fatality prevention rethinks a key understanding of safety in many contexts by asserting that where there exists the possibility of a fatality in an outdoor education program, however remote, that the magnitude of this consequence is so great that the (un)likelihood can never outweigh the priority that must be attributed to preventing that fatality. Such an approach shifts the focus of safety from limiting accidents, to holding fatality prevention at the centre of all decision-making. We describe our experience of enacting fatality prevention under three key ideas that guide our practice (1) determination to enact fatality prevention, (2) understanding previous fatality incidents, and (3) environment and place-based knowledge.
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Publication title
Outdoor Environmental Education in Higher Education: International PerspectivesEditors
G Thomas, J Dyment and H PrincePagination
309-319ISBN
9783030759797Department/School
Faculty of EducationPublisher
Springer ChamPlace of publication
SwitzerlandExtent
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