Safety Systems Development
Improve and implement risk management systems and structures to meet or exceed standards
Build a World-Class Safety System with Viristar
Viristar provides expert guidance to help organizations develop and refine risk management procedures, documentation and infrastructure for their experiential, adventurous, travel or outdoor programs.
Viristar will create documents and procedures for new organizations and program offerings, or edit, re-write and update existing materials.
We can provide training to help your team gain skills in using the documents and procedures.
Viristar can also advise on relevant Approved Code of Practice, Activity Safety Guide, Adventure Activity Standard, Good Practice Guide, legislative, regulatory, and consensus standard requirements and expectations specific to client circumstances and needs.
Help Ensure Documents, Plans, Systems and Procedures are Effective and Up-to-Date
Viristar can draft, review, and update a wide variety of plans, forms, handbooks, checklists, policy registers, and other safety-related documents. Common examples include:
Safety Management System/Risk Management Plans
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)/Field Practices
Forms (medical, logistics, operations, evaluation, etc.)
Emergency and Critical Incident Response Plans
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Document Development
Viristar will write, edit, or update a wide variety of risk management documents for clients. Templates and examples for forms, manuals, and other documents are also available.
These documents include:
- Risk management plan
- Emergency response plan
- Standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Field risk management policies and protocols
- Emergency response & disaster drill training scenarios
- Evacuation report form
- Evaluation and debrief forms
- Example acknowledgement & agreement/liability waiver
- Example health history/medical forms
- Excursion risk assessment
- Expanded scope of practice medical protocols
- Field leader/instructor/guide check-off templates
- Risk assessment and management plan (RAMP)
- Field staff/ground staff/activity leader handbooks
- First aid kit lists & content usage explanations
- First aid kit inventory control documents
- Gear & equipment management forms and logs
- Incident report form
- Internal safety review system
- News media response plan
- Medical facility visit form
- Motor vehicle operator check-off
- Physician referral form
- Provider/subcontractor vetting questionnaire
- Risk assessment and management system (RAMS) forms
- Risk assessments
- SOAP note template
- Staff training templates, plans, and content
- Transportation safety management plan
- Vehicle operations handbook content
- Safety briefing templates
- Safety management system documents
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Viristar’s recommendations pertain to good risk management practices which are relevant globally. Viristar has provided guidance to professionals and organizations in over 70 countries in six continents, and has experience in working with a wide range of regulatory bodies, cultural expectations, and standards regimes.
In cases where there are specific local requirements set by regulatory agencies or others, Viristar can help you identify and conform to them.
We recommend review of legal documents such as liability waivers by a qualified attorney licensed in your area of operations, and review of health history and medical screening materials by a physician licensed in your area of operations. We can provide guidance or referrals to help clients find suitable specialists.
Yes. Viristar provides guidance to help develop and improve not only safety systems, but curriculum, staff training, logistics, service quality, outcomes assessment, activity planning and other program-related aspects of an organization’s operations.
Yes. Viristar can help organizations create risk management or program-related materials that can be submitted to fulfill requirements of accrediting and certifying bodies, permit issuers such as land management agencies, and liability insurance providers, among others.
Yes. We can provide an outline of documents and materials that an organization of any size and at any stage in its development should have, customized for your circumstances. We can then help you create and improve all those items.
Yes. Viristar has worked with some of the world’s largest and oldest providers of outdoor education, adventurous activity, wilderness therapy, outdoor recreation, adventure tourism, and other experiences.
Our guidance helps even well-established providers stay current with evolving standards and take advantage of the most recent advances in safety and quality practices.
Yes. Viristar can create, edit or update a single document, such as a risk management plan, or a comprehensive suite of risk management manuals, forms, procedures, checklists, risk assessments, handbooks, and other materials.
