Safety
Summer Trends
Sat phone calls
Anxiety
Potpourri
100

This is when non-consensual sexual activity is a crime.

When is always?

100

There have been a numerous lost staff or student groups, often when a staff breaks off hastily for a forgotten item or for the bathroom. These are some steps to consider to avoid someone getting lost/separated.

What is...

1) stop the group

2) don't go off trail

3) keep the sat phone with the group


100

This is the preferred call-in time window for non-emergencies.

When is during business hours?

100

Technology withdrawal.

What is a trigger for anxiety?

100

This is the duration that instructors should fill out the student health logs.

What is until they demonstrate competency in self care! 

The student health logs is quoted as saying, 

"This form is used to document each student’s medical status and well-being in the field. Documentation of Rx and OTC medications monitored by OB Staff is required for students under 18yr old. For students 18 and older OTC medication monitored by OB Staff should be documented. General well-being should be documented for ALL students until competency in self-care is demonstrated."

200

A verbal assessment 

What is the water comfort assessment for groups over 18 years of age?

*You basically just need to ask them if they can swim. It's probably good to give them a heads up that the water is really cold, and the hazards that may cause.

200

This is what you want to do before depressurizing a stove for simmering. (4 incidents in July)

What is... make sure flame is OUT! 

The stove should be turned off completely anytime you are unscrewing the fuel pump. 

There have also been incidents of students and staff starting stoves with the valve open.

On this course, even though the students are adults, instructors should be monitoring stove use throughout the entire course.

200

These are options to make sure you are receiving texts.

What is to...

1) dial free # on laminated card, in order to connect to a Satellite?

2) leave phone on for at least 15 min?

3) call your voicemail? (less preferred) 

200

Heart palpitations or chest pain, feeling like you're going to pass out, hyperventilation, feelings of loss of control, trouble breathing.

What are symptoms of an anxiety attack?

200

This is whom the SAT phone should stay with as a general rule.

Who is the group?

300

5 miles

What is the distance from a lightning strike that staff should suspend all outdoor activities and seek a lower-risk location immediately?


At 2 miles (10 seconds between flash/boom) groups should commence lightning drill immediately.

Page 28 Procedures [1, 2, 3]

300

These are things that can fall down and crush your entire crew.

What are dead standing trees?

300

This is a best practice when sending a text message.

What is...

1) leaving name, date, and time?

2) requesting a response if desired or needed?

300

The time it takes for most anxiety attacks to peak.

What is 10 min? (Most will subside completely within a 30 min time period)

300

These will be stored with staff to minimize the risk of misuse by students.

What are glues, solvents, chemicals, and other hazardous substances [2.7]

400

Level 2

What is the maximum level of travel any of these crews can get to?

In addition on 18+ courses, instructors should sleep within sound for at least the first 5 nights. 

400

This is the only situation when you are required as a mandated reporter to report an incident that happened with someone who is now an adult.

When adult suffers from some mental incapacity or other disability?

400

This is the last 7 digits of your SAT phone number

What is your voicemail password?


400

These are three ways to cope with an anxiety.

What is to...

1) intentional breathing

2) be outside

3) meditate

4) do yoga

5) sleep

6) Set priorities and decide what can be done later

7) keep a journal

8) exercise

400

This is the ideal thing for the group to do if one instructor needs to evac a student and rendez-vous with the group.

What is to basecamp, or day hike? 

500

These are three characteristics of Adult learners

What are...

1. Adults need to know why they need to learn something

2. Adults are autonomous and self-directed

3. Adults have accumulated life experiences which both inform and define them as individuals

4. Adults become ready to learn when they see the need to learn

5. Adults are life-centered in their orientation to learning

6. Adults are internally motivated

500

Decreased productivity, avoidance of certain tasks, low motivation, loss of interest, apathy, dissatisfaction, decreased confidence, exhaustion, withdrawal from others, impatience, numbing, nightmares, despair and hopelessness.

What are signs of secondary trauma? (Trauma Informed Practice In Outdoor Education, Westendorf 2018)

Secondary Trauma: A change in the self that can result from either (1)empathetic engagement with a traumatized individual, such as responding to an individual who is triggered by and event on course, or (2)exposure to another person's experience of trauma, such as hearing a person recount a specific traumatic event in their life.

500

These are the 4 pieces of paper in your sat phone case

What are...

1) Calling card

2) High Sierra call guide 2018

3) Guidelines for calls to parents

4) Iridium 9555 Directions

500

18.1% of the population

What is the percentage of adults that suffer from anxiety disorders?

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States , affecting 40 million adults in the U.S. age 18 and older, or 18.1% of the population, every year. Anxiety disorders are highly treatable, yet only 36.9% of those suffering receive treatment. 

https://adaa.org/about-adaa/press-room/facts-statistics

500

These are two steps you will take if you witness harassment.

What are...

[4.54] Staff will immediately intervene if harassment is alleged or observed

[4.56] Staff will protect students against adverse treatment because of any harassment claims.

[4.57] Staff will notify a program administrator.

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