Our mission is to make outdoor recreation safer and more accessible for all
At Wilderness Safety, we believe in the benefits of spending quality time in the great outdoors. We aim to help make outdoor recreation safer and more accessible for all. We do this by providing research based safety solutions to public and private clients.
About Wilderness Safety
Our goal is to help make the great outdoors safer and more accessible. Our mission is empowerment, education and harm reduction. We believe in a research based, multi stakeholder approaches to wilderness safety. We consult with public, private, not for profit and individual stakeholders. We offer safety advice services, public speaking services, education packages, and bespoke solutions. We are available for one off speaking sessions, half day workshops and longer term consultancy projects. We work on site based, people based and location-based projects.
Services we provide
Our services include guest speaking, advisory work and working with stakeholders to develop research based strategies. Call us to discuss your specific needs.
Guest Speaking
We offer information, educational and inspirational group lectures. These can be tailored to suit your individual and organisational needs. Our expert subjects include incident prevention, lost person behaviour, and search and rescue.
Expert Advice
We can offer expert advice on a range of wilderness safety projects. This advice can be given through one off conversations or through ongoing engagements. Previous projects we have advised on have included public safety projects and tourism based initiatives.
Consulting
We offer short term, long term and ongoing consultancy services. The services we provide include small scale advisory roles, report writing, research based advice and bespoke research. Please contact us to discuss your needs, budget and timeframes.
Outdoors Groups
We work with public, private, commercial and not for profit outdoor groups. We can tailor our service to suit your budget and timeframes. We provide services that range from expert talks to bespoke research projects.
Other Solutions
Our services centre around reasearch based wilderness safety soultions. We also have expertise in emergency management and qualitive research. Please call us to discuss your needs.
Rates
Our rates are somewhat flexible and vary with the nature and complexity of the assignment. As a rough guideline we charge AUD 250 plus expenses per half day. We are happy to work on half day, daily or fixed price arrangements.
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Research Based Wilderness Safety and Incident Prevention
Our founder Dr Steven Schwartz has a PhD in lost person behaviour. He is a passionate believer in the physical, mental and spiritual benefits of outdoor recreation. Dr Schwartz believes that we should encourage outdoor activity and that we should adopt a multi stakeholder approach to reducing wilderness incident trauma.
Steve offers insights that are grounded in academic study, boots on the ground experiences and many years of public speaking.
Steve was born in New Zealand and spent many years exploring backcountry wilderness locations in his home country. This love of the outdoors and a sense of adventure led Steve to spend 10 years in the New Zealand Infantry reserves.
Steve immigrated to Far North Queensland, Australia in 2011 in pursuit of academic and outdoor lifestyle opportunities. Since arriving in Australia. Steve has spent countless hours exploring wilderness spaces in and around Norh Queensland. Steve has also been active in the search and rescue space as a trainer, leader, educator and operator. He has technical rescue skills in general bushcraft, vertical rescue, swift water rescue and flood boat operations and has used these skills in search and rescue operations throughout North Queensland and Cape York.
Steve believes outdoor recreation in wilderness spaces offers many mental, physical, and spiritual health benefits. Steve also understands that outdoor recreation comes with some inherent risk. Through his academic studies Steve has learnt how to provide research based solutions to reducing site specific, location specific and behaviour specific risk. Through Wilderness Safety Steve works with clients to address these risks and to develop risk management solutions.