Going Global and Applying Local; Key insights from submissions over the past six years of the International Adventure Risk Research Symposium
Details:
11:00 – 11:50 pm
6th of December
Room: 2E 101
Dr Clare Dallat
Dr Jeff Jackson
This presentation will provide an overview of the past five years of global risk research findings in outdoor and adventure programs. The International Adventure Risk Research Symposium, held as part of the Annual Wilderness Risk Management Conference, invites authors to share their work in a free online symposium (held every October) as well as in a short paper (freely available online). The intention of the Symposium is to help create more accessibility for both practitioners and researchers to this important work. Previous topics have included safety management systems, risk assessment, accident analysis, standards, regulation, safety performance, safety culture, and instructor specific research. Join the Symposium Co-Chairs Dr Jeff Jackson and Dr Clare Dallat as they explore and present an overview of this global research, and what implications it may have for us in practice
About the Presenters
Dr. Clare Dallat’s Bio is Clare is the Director of Risk Resolve and has a PhD in Human Factors (Accident Prediction), an MSc. in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management, a Graduate Certificate in Transformational Leadership in Education and is a Chartered OHS Professional with the Australian Institute of Health and Safety. She has over twenty-five years of professional experience in risk and safety management in outdoor programs and has worked on complex projects with partner schools, organisations, governments and regulators across Australia, North America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Clare is an adjunct industry Research Fellow within the Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems at The University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
Dr Jeff Jacksons Bio: Dr. Jeff Jackson has an impressive history of mistakes and failures. Going way back to his early days of river guiding, more could be expected to go wrong than right; this includes one canoe expedition in northern Canada that altogether failed to locate the destination river. This is not an advisable path to follow. What a track record like this does do is create a curiosity and career track focussed on the factors that make things go right or wrong.
Jeff studies how organizational structure influences performance, ranging from safety culture measures to training and data tracking, finding that what we do right has a greater predictive value on safety performance than does the things we do wrong. He has worked with provincial governments on recreation policy development, insurance providers on rating systems, and over one hundred outdoor organizations and tourism operators with risk planning. He is also an award-winning Professor and the Coordinator of Canada’s skills intensive Outdoor Adventure Diploma Programme and still river guides in the summer.
He still makes mistakes but is much better equipped to explain them now than when he started out in this gig.
