SMS Builds & Safety reviews
Learning development and Design
Advocacy
TOUCAN TOOLS
Safety MAnagement SYSTEM Development and Reviews
Adventure Safety Systems Review provides a valuable review of your organization’s safety and risk management practices, led by an experienced outside expert.
The Outdoor Safety System Review identifies areas of strength, and components of an organization’s safety system that will benefit from improvement.
The process includes a document review, key stakeholder interviews, and an on-site inspection visit (optional). A detailed written report is provided at the end of the review process.
- Creating Safety Management Systems
- Safety System Reviews
- Site Specific Risk Assessments
- Preparing for a safety audit
- Standard Operating Procedures Analysis
- Crisis Management Plan
- Safeguarding Policy Review
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learning development and design
Learning and development (L&D) is the process of improving the knowledge, skills, and abilities of employees through training and other development activities to enhance both individual performance and organizational success.
We support operators in designing and delivering high-impact safety solutions through expert learning design, delivery, and technology.
I admit that this is my partner Sues area of expertise.
She is an instructional designers and learning technology specialist. My strengths here are in creating the online presence (built this web site and many more like it), and the technical writing. Between Sue and I we provide:
- innovative solutions to meet your organisational learning and development needs.
- insightful, experienced, and skilled safety guidance to maximise the return on your organisation’s learning and development safety solutions.
- systems integration with your learning technology, allowing seamless interoperability between platforms.
- building LMS systems in HTML5 or Moodle
Over the years, between Sue and I we have created a lot of outdoor safety resources.
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advocacy for New Zealand Outdoor recreation
A PERSONAL STATEMENT ON ADVOCATING FOR OUTDOOR RECRATION; NOVEMBER 2025
Across my career I have served in leadership roles with many of Aotearoa’s key outdoor organisations—The Hillary Commission, Outdoors NZ, the NZ Mountain Safety Council, YMCANZ, the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre—and contributed to national advisory groups spanning education, conservation, tourism, and outdoor training.
From this vantage point, I believe outdoor recreation in Aotearoa New Zealand now stands in its most fragile state in decades. We have lost the national qualifications framework that once upheld professional standards. Outdoor Education is being diminished in schools and confined to a vocational corner. Access to our backcountry is shrinking as huts are removed, tracks decline, and funding to land-management agencies falls. Mining proposals threaten iconic wild places. And no coordinated, authoritative voice is defending outdoor recreation on behalf of everyday New Zealanders.
These are not isolated problems but signs of a long-term erosion of the systems, access, and values that once supported a thriving outdoor culture. It is an existential risk to who we are as a nation.
Despite this, my commitment endures. After a lifetime in adventure and outdoor leadership, I remain dedicated to championing the protection and renewal of outdoor recreation. I have witnessed how challenge in the outdoors builds resilience, integrity, teamwork, and personal strength—opportunities every New Zealander deserves.
My advocacy is grounded in experience, collaboration, and a clear conviction:
Outdoor recreation must remain a defining force for individual capability, community wellbeing, and a future that honours the landscapes that shape us as New Zealanders.
With commitment and concern for adventure, the outdoors community, and the wild places that define us
TOUCAN TOOLS and resources
TOUCAN (Tourism Consumer Analytics) tools are solutions that provide analytics processes for adventure operators to gauge the performance of their business and help in decision making to improve safety delivery and performance.
Tourism Consumer Analytics refers to the process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data about outdoor participant behaviors, preferences, and characteristics.
It involves taking data from various sources, such as feedback surveys, social media and interviews, to gain insights into what providers do best in their operations and where improvements can be made.
The templates offered here are tools built in MS Excel. They require no proprietary software and will work with Office 365 Excel versions. They are free of charge, licensing and open.
They are the copyright of Adventure Safety.
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The New Zealand outdoors is a landscape of unmatched adventure — a place where wildness and wonder collide. My own life has been shaped by it. From childhood days exploring the reefs and lagoons of the Chatham Islands, through my teenage years climbing mountains, crossing rivers, and roaming volcanoes across Aotearoa, to a professional life that carried me through the deserts, gorges, the wadis of the Middle East, the jungle backcountry of the Pacific and South East Asia, mountain biking our forests and hills, along with the never ending advocacy fight for the importance of outdoor recreation to New Zealand— the outdoors has been my ongoing passion.
And through it all, one principle has never wavered:
"Adventure must be done safely".
Adventure safety isn’t just what I do — it’s who I am.
Adventure Safety exists to provide outdoor providers and adventure operators with the tools, training, resources, and practical solutions they need to lift their operational performance, strengthen their risk management, and deliver world-class, high-quality, safe experiences. My mission is simple: help you understand your business more deeply, operate with greater confidence, and achieve the highest possible standards of adventure safety and excellence........
Adventure Safety is focused on providing resources, tools, learning and training solutions to help outdoor providers and adventure operators to improve their operational safety and understand their business, to achieve the very highest standards of safety and quality in the outdoor adventure experiences they offer.
Photo: Skiing Cardrona,..... when I had hair on my head
Adventure Safety
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