10 Safety and Health Plan.
10.1 Revision History
3 Feb 20: First draft released for everyone’s review.
10.2 General.
When it comes to safety, we all have two simple goals:
- No one gets hurt. Rule number 1 of the Geocacher’s Creed is to ensure all cache hunters do not endanger themselves or others.
- If someone gets hurt, we are able to get them the help they need quick enough to prevent any kind of permanent injury.
This field trip will be an outdoor adventure on a wild piece of land in the middle of the Missouri River in the middle of Summer. As such, there will be risks to personal safety. We all must take into consideration before going.
Once again, our goal is for no one to get hurt. No piece of Tupperware, pill bottle, or bison tube is worth severe dehydration, torn ACLs, broken bones, Lyme’s disease, or drowning. With everyone cooperation, and proper care, none of these will happen.
10.3 Methodology.
We will continuously examine the field trip to:
- Identify any and (hopefully all) threats to safety,
- Estimate the probability of a safety threat occurring,
- Estimate the severity of each threat to personal safety,
- Cross-index the probability with the severity using a matrix rating system to determine an overall risk rating for a threat,
- Identify all ways to avoid or mitigate the safety threat, and
- Repeat steps 1 through 5 above until everyone is off Goat Island.
10.3.4. Probability. Probability is the likelihood or frequency that the outcome might occur.
10‑1: Safety Risk Probability Definition Index
| Probability | Description |
| Frequent | Occurs often, continuously experienced. |
| Occasional | Occurs several times. |
| Likely | Occurs sporadically. |
| Seldom | Unlikely, but could occur at some time. |
| Unlikely | Can assume it will not occur. |
10.3.5. Severity. Severity is the consequence of a particular outcome if it occurs.
Table 10‑2: Safety Risk Severity Index
| Severity | Consequence: |
| Catastrophic | Death or permanent total disability. |
| Critical | Permanent partial disability or temporary total disability. |
| Marginal | Temporary disabling injury. |
| Negligible | Only first aid or minor supportive medical treatment needed. |
10.3.5. Rating Matrix. See table 10-3 below for the matrix used to rate safety threats.
Table 10‑3: Safety Risk Rating Matrix
| Severity | SOH Risk Rating | ||||
| Threat | Frequent | Occasional | Likely | Seldom | Unlikely |
| Catastrophic | Extremely High | Extremely High | High | High | Moderate |
| Critical | Extremely High | High | Moderate | Moderate | Low |
| Marginal | High | Moderate | Moderate | Low | Low |
| Negligible | Moderate | Low | Low | Low | Low |
10.4 Identified Safety Risks.
Click the buttons below to see the details of all safety threats the PDT has identified to date.