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Challenge Course Safety: Factors Contributing to High
Course Incidents. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Jan 2009, Pages: 76
The introduction of challenge courses to the public
and private education sectors ushered in a new focus
on construction and safety standards. The Association
for Challenge Course Technologies (ACCT) currently
provides a series of standards related to challenge
course construction techniques and appropriate
materials, and is paving the way for national
standardization of challenge course practices, and
instructor training programs. While challenge course
safety has improved significantly in the past forty
years, there are some who have claimed these programs
lack safety and quality control, resulting in a
number of potential and actual accidents.
The purpose of this book is to provide an initial
accurate assessment of the relationship between
challenge course incidents and: 1) type of belay
system; 2) type of incident; 3) participant gender;
and 4) participant age. The ultimate goal is to
identify manageable factors that contribute to or
increase participant exposure to actual risk and
synthesize them in a useful, proactive way.
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