Participation in UNIS course AS-302 Safety Management in the Arctic 2021
ETH Zurich
Lay summary
The course “Safety Management in the Arctic” is a very new course at UNIS (The University Center in Svalbard) and was conducted for the second time this year (2021). As most courses at UNIS, also this course was a combination of theory and outdoor field work, what I personally like very much. The focus of this course was to give an introduction into safety management in the Arctic with the overall goal of learning how to prevent and investigate accidents in the Arctic. The course consisted of four different parts:
- Safety theory
- Investigation of an accident (Term paper 1)
- Analyze of an accident data base (Term paper 2)
- Plan a field trip
I personally learnt a lot from this course. I was impressed how important climate change already is for planning field trips here on Svalbard. Since temperatures change, there is no clear shift between summer and winter anymore and people in Svalbard need to use the shoulder seasons too for planning activities
Details
| Regional focus | Arctic |
| Location | Svarlbad |
| Funded amount | 1,900 CHF |
| Project dates | 1st September 2021 – 30th September 2021 |
| Category | Field and Summer Schools |