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Risk Management in Kitesurfing as a Basic Condition of Effective Learning and Safe Swimming Cover

Risk Management in Kitesurfing as a Basic Condition of Effective Learning and Safe Swimming

Open Access
|Jan 2019

Abstract

This article discusses issues related to safety during kitesurfing (swimming on a board with a kite). The considerations are based on risk management procedures. These procedures can be described interchangeably as managing your own safety. Risk management allows you to minimize threats without sacrificing your planned sport goals. The authors first describe the procedures related to the identification of threats occurring in this discipline. Teaching and practicing kitesurfing involves overcoming a large number of threats. These threats can have both external and internal character. The next stage is risk analysis, understood as the product of negative events and the probability of their occurrence. Afterwards, we discuss the ways of dealing with the threat in the event of its occurrence. The last stage is the risk control (tracking) - whether new threats have emerged, or the level of risk has remained unchanged. The described methodical impacts can be labelled as education for safety.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phr-2018-0019 | Journal eISSN: 2084-0535 | Journal ISSN: 1734-7009
Language: English
Page range: 55 - 67
Submitted on: May 12, 2018
Accepted on: Aug 2, 2018
Published on: Jan 3, 2019
Published by: Polish Hyperbaric Medicine and Technology Society
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2019 Wojciech Wiesner, Piotr Kunysz, published by Polish Hyperbaric Medicine and Technology Society
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