Risk Management

Training courses to foster positive safety outcomes

Viristar offers comprehensive, engaging trainings designed to help outdoor, adventure and experiential professionals achieve excellence in safety outcomes.

Our acclaimed Risk Management for Outdoor Programs 40-hour online training is considered a world-leading outdoor safety course. Participants from over 60 countries on six continents have benefited from this rigorous course, which takes place over four weeks (29 days).

Viristar also offers a free COVID-19 risk management course. This is a legacy product but contains public health guidance applicable beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

In addition to risk management trainings, Viristar also offers other risk management services, including risk management audits, incident reviews, expert witness services, adventure safety accreditation, and support with developing safety system documents, procedures and systems.

Risk Management for Outdoor Programs

Rigorous and intensive online training course, taking 40 hours over four weeks (29 days)

Content includes safety science, incident causation models, risk assessment, human factors, systems thinking, legal considerations, documentation, emergency response, safety management systems, and much more

Curriculum designed for managers of adventure, experiential, wilderness and travel-based programs

Course includes five once-a-week video-conference calls with approximately 10 hours of independent work between each call

Textbook included with training. Course completion certificate valid for three years.  Custom courses also available. 

COVID-19 Risk Management for Outdoor Programs

Best practices for managing public health emergencies for outdoor, experiential and travel programs

Free online course, approximately one hour in length

This legacy content is specific to the COVID-19 pandemic; principles can be applied to similar health situations

To enroll, click the ‘Enroll Now’ button below; create an account, and use the key ‘Awareness2020’ to complete enrollment. Click the ‘Learn More’ button for additional details.

Testimonials

  • Hjh Sofinaz Hj Abd Majid

    Training Officer, Outward Bound Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam

  • Great training that gave me the opportunity to look at risk assessment with a common sense lens.

    Jeff Koops

    Athletic Director, British International School of Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia

  • Paul Yuen

    Programme Manager, Camp Beaumont Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • I feel more confident, motivated, and better prepared to make improvements in our risk management process.

    Daniela Borontiș

    Educational Programs Coordinator, Scout Leader, Romanian Scouts, Mehedinți, Romania

  • The sessions were interactive and useful.

    Kamaran Rasul

    Director, Hawraz Climbing Organization, Iraq

  • This course consists of great materials to improve your safety culture in the outdoor industry.

    Sulistyo Sapto Winarno (Soel)

    Program Development, Jelajah Outdoor, Jawa Barat, Indonesia

  • Lisette Gachanja

    Program Director, Urbanite Camps, Nairobi, Kenya

  • Very thorough, challenging and thought-provoking…the exercises were well designed to facilitate collaboration and provide opportunities to learn from the experiences of others.

    Ken Dunn

    Owner, Wilderness Recovery Coach, Expedition Recovery, LLC, Pennsylvania, USA

  • Ryan Moss

    Live Adventure Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

  • A well designed training where you learn essential skills and knowledge that can be used for effective risk management.

    John Henriquez

    Operations Manager, De Palm Tours, Oranjestad, Aruba

  • Highly recommended course to anyone working in experiential learning of any kind.

    Tiffany Cavanagh

    Head of Girls Boarding, Martin House Trust School, United Kingdom

  • The risk management course is very comprehensive and useful for outdoor organizations.

    Yi-Chang Tsai

    International Outdoor Education Federation, Taipei, Taiwan

  • An excellent course…well facilitated.

    Cathie Riley

    School Nurse, The Fay School, Texas, USA

  • Viristar’s Risk Management for Outdoor Programs course would be beneficial for, and highly related to, any outdoor adventure practitioner!

    Georgina Tan

    Senior Instructor (Training Unit), Outward Bound Singapore, Singapore

  • Excellent curriculum based on well researched, evidence based, current, up to date content.

    Lanny Donde

    Outdoor Education Teacher, Calgary Academy, Alberta, Canada