Articles on summer camp operations and safety, including camper supervision, staffing and training, incident documentation, emergency response, safeguarding, aquatics, and other issues relevant to camp-related litigation.
Evaluating a camp's response to a serious injury requires more than looking at the outcome. This article examines the systems, decisions, communications, and evidence that may be relevant.
Camp incident reports can be valuable evidence, but they rarely tell the whole story. This article explains what they may reveal, what they often miss, and what other records may be important.
Camper supervision is more than a counselor-to-camper ratio. This article examines the operational factors that may be relevant when evaluating supervision practices following a summer camp incident.
Serious camp incidents may reflect staffing or management issues that began well before the event itself. This article examines common areas attorneys may want to review.