This article examines the use of case-based approaches to fatal incidents in outdoor education (OE) with a view to fatality prevention. Fatalities are rare in OE and therefore it is nearly impossible for teachers to learn how to avoid fatalities from their own past experiences. It is, however, possible to learn from the mistakes of others through…

This paper is part of an on-going project to examine outdoor education related deaths in Australia since 1960. It records eleven incidents not included in previous papers in this series. A total of 14 students or staff died in the incidents. The paper reviews the incidents and identifies what further lessons can be learned about fatality…

This article, the third in a series, examines 114 outdoor education-related fatalities in Australia in the period 1960-2002. It reviews the environmental circumstances in which fatalities have occurred and the extent to which environmental circumstances contributed to fatal incidents. All of the accidental deaths (105) could be linked to…