Outdoors, Navigation & Survival
Planning for the improbable.
9 topics · 10 curated works
No prior grounding assumed.
Are You Ready? An In-Depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness
Federal Emergency Management Agency · 2004
Household disaster preparedness is a single planning process — assess your hazards, build a kit, make a plan, know your community's warning systems —…
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Assumes you know the vocabulary.
OA Guide to Outdoor Safety Management
Rick Curtis · 1995
Accident potential in an outdoor programme comes from environmental hazards and human-factor hazards combining multiplicatively rather than…
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Primary sources and full treatments.
U.S. Coast Guard Addendum to the United States National Search and Rescue Supplement (NSS) to the International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue Manual (IAMSAR)
United States Coast Guard · 2010
Search and rescue is a planned, resourced operation with its own doctrine for defining a search area, allocating assets and calculating probability…
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Federal Emergency Management Agency
Household disaster preparedness is a single planning process — assess your hazards, build a kit, make a plan, know your community's warning systems — that applies across every type of emergency rather than one plan per hazard.
link checked 17 Sept 2026National Disaster Education Coalition
Public disaster-safety messaging is inconsistent whenever every agency writes its own, and this coalition of the Red Cross, FEMA, NOAA and other bodies fixes standard, cross-checked safety messages for nineteen hazard types plus general preparedness so responders and educators can speak from the same script.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA's foundational guide to household disaster readiness: getting informed about local hazards, writing a family emergency plan, assembling a disaster supplies kit, and knowing evacuation routes and shelter options before disaster strikes.
link checked 17 Sept 2026World Health Organization
People affected by a disaster are best helped in the first hours by calm, practical, non-intrusive support rather than by having them recount the event, reversing decades of standard post-disaster debriefing practice.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Rick Curtis
Accident potential in an outdoor programme comes from environmental hazards and human-factor hazards combining multiplicatively rather than additively, and builds a pre-planning-to-program-change cycle around that formula so a programme's safety record actually improves trip after trip.
link checked 17 Sept 2026United States Department of the Army
Field manual FM 4-25.11: most battlefield deaths from injury are preventable in the first minutes, and drills self-aid and buddy-aid — airway, bleeding, shock — as skills every soldier performs, not just the medic.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Federal Emergency Management Agency
Disaster response in the United States works through a fixed structure of roles and coordinating mechanisms that engages first at the local level and scales up, rather than through a single top-down command.
link checked 17 Sept 2026American Radio Relay League
Volunteer amateur radio operators can keep emergency communication running when the phone network and internet fail, and sets out how the Amateur Radio Emergency Service trains and organises for that role.
link checked 17 Sept 2026American Heart Association
Survival from cardiac arrest depends above all on early, high-quality chest compressions with minimal interruption, and distils the 2020 resuscitation-science update into the compression rate, depth and sequence every CPR course now teaches from.
link checked 17 Sept 2026United States Coast Guard
Search and rescue is a planned, resourced operation with its own doctrine for defining a search area, allocating assets and calculating probability of detection, not an improvised response to a distress call.
link checked 17 Sept 2026