Research on safety management of mountainous outdoor sports

Abstract

MoPuntainous outdoor sports are much favored by young sports fan in our country. However, this kind of sports is high-risky and contains many unpredictable risks. We call the incident happened in the course of mountainous outdoor sports "mountain-climbing incident. This thesis intends to analyze the incidents occurred during the recent ten years by adopting approaches of cause-result theory and statistics, classification, case analysis, with the aim to stress the importance of safety management by way of incident alarms. The conclusions are: mountainous outdoor sports are high-risky items and it is essential to strengthen safety management of these items; currently, the fundamental causes for the greater death toll are that an over rapidly increasing number of participants join in mountainous outdoor sports and at the same time they lack adequate knowledge and training concerned; the most major cause of the death toll is the management errors ; laying emphasis on safety management can promote a healthy and orderly development in mountainous outdoor sports. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.