Making Risk Management Tangible for Trip Leaders Using Cross-Industry Adaptations - Online Classroom

6:30-8:10pm PST via Zoom Meeting
Meeting link will be sent to registered attendees the day of the session.

The ability to manage risk is a hallmark of excellent leaders. What does this actually look like beyond “Follow your Policies & Procedures” and “Stay within your Scope of Practice”? Whether it is to enhance your own risk management practices or learn a new way to train risk management, you will walk away with both.

With recognition of cross industry research as an invaluable resource, this session presents a Trip Leader Centered Risk Management Framework created from research from the fields of Aviation, Paramedicine, and Military. The goal is to move beyond risk theories and towards tangible actions that make the management of risk in the field concrete. When actions become understood of where it fits within the bigger picture, actions become intentional and managing risk becomes conscious.

With an understanding of the framework, we will start getting you acquainted with your own level of Risk Self-Awareness and habits. We will then build on how to stay vigilant by learning how to incorporate specific flexibility focused “Learnacy Skills” in order to be able to continue your self-growth in managing risks into the future. Finally we will address Stress Injury Mitigation as a core component of a well-rounded risk management strategy: the what, why and how of it.

Seminar Notes 

This presentation will encourage attendees to speak up throughout the presentation and be interactive with prompting discussion questions interspersed within lecture segments. Breakout rooms will be used to start the process of self-reflecting with peers about your Risk Self-Awareness and habits, and give you a chance to practice flexibility focused “Learnacy Skills”.

Resources

Please find here the LINK to resources from my session “Making Risk Management Training Tangible for Staff Using Cross-Industry Adaptations”.  It includes:

      A summary of the key concepts

      A cheat sheet that can be used by field trainers of the key RM concepts/framework

      An in-depth outline of a Stress Injury Mitigation Training

      Two short (amateur) videos on neuroscience that may help with creating your own training

[Note: The summary is from the original presentation from the Wilderness Risk Management Conference (WRMC) 2022, which has a few sub-topics not covered in the session with The Mountaineers. Feel free to contact Rumi with questions]

There is also a folder called “Stress Continuums for the Outdoor Industry” which has expanded versions of the Stress Continuums created by the Outdoor Professional Taskforce (subgroup of Responder Alliance Network). 

These look in depth at what it looks like/sounds like/feels like in the various colours specific to various levels of an organization along with Tools. (For the Organization as a whole/for Program Admin Staff/ for Field Staff/ for Students)

For editable copies follow this LINK – please read the “Overview & Instructions” document first.

Please feel free to contact Rumi if you have any questions: rumi.kodama@gmail.com

Presenter

Rumi Kodama is a paramedic in Vancouver, BC with roots in the outdoor/wilderness therapy industry in numerous roles for over 20 years from YMCA to BC Conservation Corps to NOLS, Outward Bound Canada and Alaska Crossings. Risk is inherent in everything we do and the power of bringing practices from across industry lines is something that just makes sense. Her passion extends to thinking about how we manage risk to reduce occurrences of stress injuries and teaching these topics with a tendency towards focusing on making things tangible and spreading practical ideas.