A boarding supervisor’s worst fear:a student in your care is seriously injured or killed.   To be forewarned is to be forearmed: “The study of fatal incidents remains essential to fatality prevention” (Andrew Brookes, researcher). Often the most risky environment for teenage students is the great outdoors, when away from regular routines and outside our comfort zone. While there is little research on fatal accidents specifically in the student boarding industry, there are coroners’ reports from individual incidents and also some very helpful research in the area of outdoor recreation. The outdoor recreation researcher Andrew Brookes studies 146 fatalities over … Continue reading Student Fatalities