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Why working in the outdoors in different from a legal perspective?
A guide for an outdoor company is in a unique perspective with his or her customers. This relationship can be used to resolve conflict, emotion and injured guests. When I work at a Grand Canyon river...
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Everyone should write first aid protocols…. Or you could just buy a first aid...
Why does everyone in the outdoor industry continuously want to reinvent the wheel? I received an email asking if they should write first aid protocols for the program. I answered no; it is a violation...
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Athlete Contracts; as a manufacture do you need one?
Yes, you should have figured that (if I’m writing about it…..) You have a great product, and you want to get it out into the hands of some athletes you know. The athletes have been friends for years,...
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Ways to console someone who is grieving.
Great Article points to 11 things you can do to help. This article here is a combination of the article I’m referencing and my personal experience, which mirrors the ideas in the article. This is a...
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I’m tired of people trying to tell us what we can and cannot do to recreate.
On top of that, when we do get hurt we then are supposedly a bigger liability. See Skydiving Quadriplegic’s Death Raises Questions of Safety for Disabled Thrill Seekers A Quadriplegic skydiver died...
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Great editorial questioning why we need laws to “protect” us from ourselves.
Besides, as many of you know, the effectiveness of most safety gear is less successful than the laws requiring the gear. An editorial in the Sacramento Bee titled Editorial Notebook: Do we need laws to...
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Great article on why helmet laws are stupid
Either that or we should be wearing helmets at dinner. Yes I know I write a lot about helmets. However the most important issue I write about is to make people think about what they do and why. In this...
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Cyclists! We need to change this. It is legal to change it, it is right to...
Image via Wikipedia We have to get/force/educate law enforcement that cyclists are not just future road kill! If you ride regularly, other than on a trainer, you’ve probably been scared, brushed or...
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New study suggests that North American Avalanche survival time is half what...
Ten minute survival in western wet snow is shown by the study. Dr. Pascal Haegeli, a researcher from Vancouver BC has recently published a study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal titled...
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Insurance company release fails, even in the state where the company is located
Sport Underwriters.com release has some good points, but overall it has major flaws. I received this release, which was provided with a quote for insurance. The quote was great. The quote required the...
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Architects, Engineers and Recreation, we need the first two, to be successful...
No, not to tear down the wilderness, I’m talking about what we build. In the recreation industry, we build a lot of things that our customers use: Ropes courses, zip lines, climbing walls, raft frames,...
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Stop Feuding, I doubt, move forward anyway, I think you can.
The Challenge/Ropes Course Industry is still fighting after all these years……it is a very sad song. The challenge course, or as it was known in its beginning, the ropes’ course industry, is still...
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Do you really want to sell helmets this way? Does this article promote the...
Or does this article just create liability issues? I recently read an article in a trade magazine about selling cycling helmets. As usual, it caught my attention, but for different reasons. This...
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Article attempts to describe people dying on Everest as part psychological trap
Probably, the article is right; however, the article misses one major issue; a lot of people climbing Everest are there because they can afford it, not because they know what they are doing. This past...
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OSHA can close you down if they do not believe you are able to keep employees...
Sea World can no longer allow trainers in the water with ORCAs after OSHA Administrative law judge ruling More than two years ago a trainer at Sea World in Orlando Florida was killed by an ORCA (killer...
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When we try and prevent accidents are creating them?
Some traffic studies show eliminating signs, curbs, and road lines actually substantially decreases accidents This Wired article discusses ways to decrease traffic accidents as well as pedestrian and...
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Kids get hurt and some kids die
If you want your kids to play sports, enjoy the outdoors, and have fun, you have to accept the fact your kid will suffer an injury and some of those injuries are fatal. If parents continue to sue...
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A group ride by its very nature does not make the leader liable
And just because I lawyer writing in a bicycle magazine says it does, does not change the law. The article Be a Fearless Leader gives the impression that being a group leader in a ride and offering...
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You don’t ask for help, you don’t pay, you aren’t a member but you sue when...
Settlement in the Wood River, ID YMCA lawsuit I wrote about this lawsuit, and the injury right after it happened. See Climbing accident at Ketchum Idaho indoor Climbing Walland Update on climbing wall...
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A default judgment does not mean you won, it means the other side lost
Whenever you see someone touting their win with a default, they are manipulating the system. Lately, a lot of press releases and articles have been written about “winning” lawsuits when the other side...
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