Principles of Activity Supervision? Are you doing what you should be doing? скачать в хорошем качестве

Principles of Activity Supervision? Are you doing what you should be doing?

On June 11th, 2022 at 1:45 pm, Sheetal Patel and her husband were sitting on a rock in the water at the top of Pipe Creek Rapids on the Colorado River cooling off from the 116-degree heat after hiking down the Angle Bright trail. She was part of a commercial trip. Although no one witnessed her falling into the water, Sheetal accidentally dropped her water bottle in the water. When she went to retrieve it, she was swept ½ to 3/4 miles downstream. She drowned in the rapids. There are three types of supervision: general supervision, transitional supervision, and specific supervision. Examination of the events revealed that the company and guides violated NPS regulations, which prohibit water activities above rapids. Further analysis indicated that because the victim was moving and swept downstream, the rescue by guides was a little too little, too late. The guides viewed the activity area as the entire beach where they were packing for their trip. When Sheetal was swept away, they were too far away and doing other tasks to transition and affect a timely rescue. The river travels at a swift 15 mph or 22feet per second. After five to ten seconds in the swift current, Sheetal was out of reach, but none of the guides were there to react in time. When they finally pulled her out of the river and performed first aid and CPR (i.e. specific supervision), they were not able to resuscitate her. Because of time and distance considerations, in outdoor recreation activities, transitional supervision is an important consideration. It is important for leaders to “position” themselves to minimize time and distance to move from general supervision to specific supervision. A second important lesson from the analysis was that in outdoor recreation activities, transitional supervision, or the time it takes to transition from general supervision to specific supervision, determines the activity area. This presentation was given at the 2024 AORE conference in New Orleans and at the Wilderness Risk Management Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 15-17, 2024. Hence, the power point format.