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Title: Avalanche Accident Risk Reduction Tools in a North American Context
Date: 2012
Authors: Bob Uttl, Joanna McDouall, Christina Mitchell, Carmela A. White
Description: Over the last decade, a number of avalanche risk reduction tools have been developed to assist recreational winter backcountry users avoid avalanche a...
Object ID: issw-2012-834-839.pdf
Keywords: accident prevention, risk reduction tools, risk, decision making
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Title: Evaluating the Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card 2.0
Date: 2012
Authors: Bob Uttl, Joanna McDouall, Christina Mitchell
Description: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card (Haegeli & McCammon, 2006), consisting of the Trip Planner and Obvious Clues, was marketed by the Ca...
Object ID: issw-2012-840-847.pdf
Keywords: avaluator avalanche accident prevention card, accident prevention, risk reduction tools, risk, decision making
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Title: Pitfalls in Development of Avalanche Accident Risk Reduction Tools
Date: 2010
Authors: Bob Uttl, James Taylor, Jan Uttl
Description: We present a new avalanche accident prevention tool for recreational backcountry users: the 7CF. We evaluated the new tool's effectiveness on hundreds...
Object ID: ISSW_O-023.pdf
Keywords: avaluator avalanche accident prevention card, obvious clues, risk reduction, avalanche accidents
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Title: New Mobile and Web-Based Services for Backcountry Skiers
Date: 2010
Authors: Jan Eckert, Christoph Suter
Description: The WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF developed White Risk mobile, an IPhone-application which was presented at the ISSW-Europe 2009 i...
Object ID: ISSW_P-034.pdf
Keywords: prevention, planning, service-design, interface-design
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Title: Ethics of Experimenting With People's Lives in Winter Backcountry
Date: 2010
Authors: Bob Uttl, Dylan Smibert, Alain Morin, Gregory Wells, Jan Uttl, Breanne Hamper
Description: The purpose of the Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card, designed by Haegeli and McCammon (2006) and published by the Canadian Avalanche Assoc...
Object ID: ISSW_P-055.pdf
Keywords: ethics, avaluator avalanche accident prevention card, accident prevention, risk reduction tools, risk, decision making
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Title: Avalanche Protection for Construction Site
Date: 2009
Authors: Thomas Rentsch, Ruedi Stüssi
Description: “Linthal 2015” is as more than 1.5 billion project in the eastern Alps of Switzerland to expand an existing hydro power plant. Several con...
Object ID: issw-2009-0592-0596.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, prevention, artificial release, working site, avalanche blasting
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Title: Pitfalls in the Analyses of Accident Records: The Meaning of Missing Values
Date: 2009
Authors: Bob Uttl, Kelly Kisinger
Description: Accident records are frequently used to learn about conditions and behavior before, during, and after accidents. However, accident records frequently ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0614-0618.pdf
Keywords: avaluator, obvious clues, accident records, missing values, avalanche prevention
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Title: Human Risk Factors in Avalanche Incidents
Date: 2008-09-26
Authors: Albert (Albi) Sole, Dr. Carolyn Emery
Description: An average of 12 people die in avalanches each year in Western Canada. The risk factors for the avalanche phenomenon have been extensively studied. Th...
Object ID: P__8143.pdf
Keywords: risk, attitude, injury prevention, training, perception, avalanche
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Title: The Avaluator's Obvious Clues Accident Prevention Values: Are They Replicable?
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Bob Uttl, Meaghen Henry, Jan Uttl
Description: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card consists of the Trip Planner and Obvious Clues (Haegeli and McCammon, 2006). For Obvious Clues, the u...
Object ID: P__8162.pdf
Keywords: risk, avalanche prevention, decision making
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Title: Developments in Avalanche Forecasting and Other Prevention Measures and their Potential Effects on Avalanche Fatalities
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Hans-Juerg Etter, Thomas Stucki, Benjamin Zweifel, Christine Pielmeier
Description: Despite the ever-increasing attractions of backcountry and off-piste winter sports as well as the ever more heavily frequented mountain routes in Swit...
Object ID: P__8245.pdf
Keywords: prevention, avalanche forecasting, avalanche fatalities
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Title: ICAR and its Importance in Avalanche Rescue
Date: 2004
Authors: Hans-Jürg Etter, Roland Meister, Dale Atkins
Description: The International Commission for Alpine Rescue (ICAR, http://www.icar-cisa.org/) was founded 1948 by influential representatives of the alpine rescue ...
Object ID: issw-2004-360-369.pdf
Keywords: mountaineering accidents, mountain rescue, prevention, emergency systems, avalanche accident trends
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Title: Avalanche Education Video of the Five European Avalanche Danger Levels
Date: 2002
Authors: Stephan Harvey
Description: To introduce basic knowledge of avalanche danger for off piste areas, the Swiss accident insurance company SlNA produced in close collaboration with t...
Object ID: issw-2002-242-243.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche incident, avalanche prevention, avalanche forecast, avalanche bulletin, avalanche danger degree, avalanche video, avalanche education
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Title: The Human Factor - Lessons for Avalanche Education
Date: 1994
Authors: Jill Fredston, Doug Fesler, Bruce Tremper
Description: Avalanche accident statistics have long shown that the majority of avalanches catching people are triggered by people. While some accidents are the re...
Object ID: issw-1994-473-487.pdf
Keywords: fatalities, avalanche accidents, accident prevention, avalanche victim, avalanche education
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Title: The Development of Avalanche Education and Hazard Forecasting in the British Isles
Date: 1994
Authors: Steve Blagbrough
Description: In a 15 year period, 172 people died in the Scottish hills in winter. Of these, 36 were killed in avalanches. In 1988 the government, under considerab...
Object ID: issw-1994-500-508.pdf
Keywords: fatalities, avalanche accidents, accident prevention, avalanche victims, windslab avalanche
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Title: Colorado Avalanche Information Center
Date: 1992
Authors: Dale Atkins
Description: Extended Abstract: Cold temperatures and a shallow snowcover often create dangerous avalanche conditions in Colorado. Since 1950 avalanches have kille...
Object ID: issw-1992-295.pdf
Keywords: fatalities, avalanche accidents, accident prevention, avalanche victim, avalanche education
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