Citation

Brookes A. Aust. J. Outdoor Educ. 2002; 7(1): 20-35.

Affiliation

La Trobe University

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Outdoor Council of Australia)

DOI

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PMID

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Abstract

This paper presents a summary of outdoor education fatalities in Australia since 1960-2002. It discusses the importance of incident analysis in fatality prevention. Major sources of systematic bias in reviewing cases are discussed, and a distinction made between risk management, safety management, and fatality prevention. The paper is the first in a series presenting the findings of a research project that sought to examine all available information from public records, mainly newspaper reports and coronial documents, on outdoor education fatalities since 1960, with a view to (a) ensuring cases for study were more consistently available to teachers and teacher educators and (b) examining past incidents for common elements or patterns.