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

  • It was clear, practical, and very relevant to our work. We’ve already started applying what we learned, and it’s making a real difference.

    Miriam van de Plassche

    De Palm Island General Manager & Director of Sustainability, De Palm Tours, Oranjestad, Aruba

  • An in depth scientific approach to safety management in outdoor programmes.

    Paul-John D’Rozario

    Head of Outdoor Education, Bangkok Patana School, Bangkok, Thailand

  • Informative…I greatly appreciated the differentiated learning styles that are offered in this course.

    Lesley Pfeiffer

    Program Supervisor, Sonoma County Regional Parks, California, USA

  • It was very helpful, and I was able to get a wider perspective on risk management.

    Shi Jinhui

    Founder, Fun & Learn , Chiang Mai, Thailand

  • Ashwin Thomas

    Founder, Coho Earth Adventures, India

  • Alexandra Alabastro

    Outdoor Educator, JUMP! Foundation, Manila, Philippines

  • This course covers everything you need to know.

    Nick Chaddock

    Outdoor Education Coordinator, North London Collegiate School Jeju, Jeju-Do, South Korea

  • An essential for anyone working in the field.

    Marian Anghel

    Managing Director of Rucksack Mountain School, UIMLA Vice President, Asociaţia de Educaţie şi Cultură Outdoor Romania, Brasov, Romania

  • Comprehensive in value-adding to my risk management knowledge.

    Boo Hui Wen

    Senior Instructor, Outward Bound Singapore, Singapore

  • Our instructor was fantastic and extremely knowledgeable. This course was a great start for me to build the risk management approach for my organization.

    Noam Pratzer

    Founder, Get Out Adventures, Toronto, Canada

  • Covers extensive topics and real life case studies to easily understand how to initiate risk management within an organization.

    Long Henson

    Metropolitan Mountaineering Society, Philippines

  • This course provides a comprehensive guide to risk management in outdoor programming.

    Crystal Skahan

    Northeast Passage Education & Training Director, University of New Hampshire, New Hampshire, 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

  • This course is a wonderfully organized and gave a comprehensive overview of risk management.

    Molly Alden-Rabenau

    Owner and Director of Operations, Costa Rica Explorations, Utah, USA

  • Neil Haarhoff

    Director of Outdoor Education, Stanford Lake College, Limpopo, South Africa