<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article discusses issues related to safety during kitesurfing (swimming on a board with a kite). The considerations are based on risk management procedures. These procedures can be described interchangeably as managing your own safety. Risk management allows you to minimize threats without sacrificing your planned sport goals. The authors first describe the procedures related to the identification of threats occurring in this discipline. Teaching and practicing kitesurfing involves overcoming a large number of threats. These threats can have both external and internal character. The next stage is risk analysis, understood as the product of negative events and the probability of their occurrence. Afterwards, we discuss the ways of dealing with the threat in the event of its occurrence. The last stage is the risk control (tracking) - whether new threats have emerged, or the level of risk has remained unchanged. The described methodical impacts can be labelled as education for safety.</p></abstract>

This article discusses issues related to safety during kitesurfing (swimming on a board with a kite). The considerations are based on risk management procedures. These procedures can be described interchangeably as managing your own safety. Risk management allows you to minimize threats without sacrificing your planned sport goals. The authors first describe the procedures related to the identification of threats occurring in this discipline. Teaching and practicing kitesurfing involves overcoming a large number of threats. These threats can have both external and internal character. The next stage is risk analysis, understood as the product of negative events and the probability of their occurrence. Afterwards, we discuss the ways of dealing with the threat in the event of its occurrence. The last stage is the risk control (tracking) - whether new threats have emerged, or the level of risk has remained unchanged. The described methodical impacts can be labelled as education for safety.

Risk Management in Kitesurfing as a Basic Condition of Effective Learning and Safe Swimming

Polish Hyperbaric Research

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This article discusses issues related to safety during kitesurfing (swimming on a board with a kite). The considerations are based on risk management...

Risk Management in Kitesurfing as a Basic Condition of Effective Learning and Safe Swimming

Published Online: Jan 03, 2019

Page range: 55 - 67

Received: May 12, 2018

Accepted: Aug 02, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phr-2018-0019

Keywords
kitesurfing, risk, safety, education for safety

© 2018 Wojciech Wiesner et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Risk Management in Kitesurfing as a Basic Condition of Effective Learning and Safe Swimming

Published Online: Jan 03, 2019

Page range: 55 - 67

Received: May 12, 2018

Accepted: Aug 02, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phr-2018-0019

Keywordskitesurfing, risk, safety, education for safety

© 2018 Wojciech Wiesner et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
kitesurfing, risk, safety, education for safety