Infectious Diseases
What point(s) of the scout law would be applicable to keeping everyone safe from diseases when camping?
What is clean (helpful, obedient)?
Cub scouts gather around in a camp location to share songs, stories and fellowship with adults leading and monitoring the location.
What is a campfire?
The very first Guide to Safe Scouting subject and the training that must be kept up to date by all adult leaders.
What is Youth Protection?
Training a person takes that is required for Packs to go camping under BSA policy (so insurance covers the event).
What is BALOO-Basic Adult Outdoor Orientation?
A list of items needed for the camp out that is sent to all participants.
What is a packing list?
One of the screening tools used to prevent sick people from coming to an event.
What is a Pre-event Screening Questionaire?
Thinking through where tents and equipment should be placed for the camp. ie:watch for heavy slopes, dead trees, courses of water and low places.
What is site selection?
A thought process to guide us in situations not specifically covered in the guide, activity planners should evaluate the potential risk of harm.
What is common sense (understanding of risk/situation)?
Required adult training to teach Scout Leaders to keep an eye out for abuse or neglect.
What is Youth Protection?
Something that will greatly increase the success of your campout.
What is planning?
Boiled water (2 min or more) or filtered water or use purification tablets in the water.
What is purified water?
The items cubs should always have when going out to hike from camp; which include food and water.
What are the cub scout six (6) essentials.
Guidelines that tell what activities are age appropriate and that Scouts can participate in those activities in which BSA insurance will cover liabilities on these activities for them.
What are BSA age guidelines (in Guide to Safe Scouting)?
Medical records required to participate in Scouting activities.
What is the BSA Annual Health and Medical Record?
The people who plan your safe camp out with the BALOO trained adult.
Who/What are parents? (included are parents who are: committee members, den leaders, cubmaster, committee chair, who might have special skills or be nurses, EMT's, etc).
Keeping the camp clean by straining and broadcast spreading our wash water and using a police line to pick up any stray trash.
What is campsite hygiene?
Points to remember so we can protect the environment and others from impacts of our camping trips.
What is LNT or Outdoor Ethics (the outdoor code)?
A S.A.F.E. check list about Supervision, Assessment, Fitness & skills, Equipment and environment leaders should fill out with a description of your service project that also has a 3 step resource description to document any incidents (accidents).
What is the Service Project Planning Checklist?
Two trainings that are required for different water activities.
What are Safety Afloat and Safe Swim Defense?
Other people's or other Pack's recommendations, previous campouts (history), online information from National Park, DNR, State Parks or community groups, district Roundtable, council and national databases; be creative (museums, farms and backyards).
What are some places to find campsites/overnight sites?
After eating and cooking we scrape plates, pots, utensils and use 3 combinations of soap, hot or cool water, and bleach water to clean dirty dishes.
What is the three bin cleaning method for sanitation?
List of questions planners should fill out about camp planning to camp safely.
What is the Campout Safety Checklist?
Qualified Supervision; Physical Fitness; Buddy System; Safe Area or Course; Equipment Selection and Maintenance;Personal Safety Equipment; Safety Procedures and Policies; Skill Level Limits; Weather Check; Planning; Communications; Plans and Notices; First Aid Resources; Applicable Laws; CPR Resource; Discipline
What is the Sweet Sixteen of BSA Safety?
Guide for all parents and leaders to use for leading and participating in Scout activities that includes age guidelines for activities.
What is the Guide to Safe Scouting?
This is how we camp the BALOO way.
What is safe and healthy?