Wilderness Survival Preparedness as a Safety Training topic?

[BigNate]

I have mostly lurked about here for quite a while. I have learned things here that rarely have I seen mentioned anywhere else. My love of the outdoors has lead me to consider the survival topic as subject matter for our weekly safety training at work. After all, if you get hurt away from work it affects everyone at work who has to cover for you.

Being winter I thought a video to cover the basics would be good considering the winter activities such as snowmobiling, skiing, or hunting in the backcountry.

Anyone know of a relatively short free video I can use to get the discussion going? Nate

 

[PayetteRucker]

I'd recommend Ray Mears' Survival Mindset, but it's maybe an hour long-it's mostly survival stories about people that overcame crazy odds, all of them in the wintertime, and the mental processes that they were going through to overcome them. Something like that would be enough to get peoples' wheels spinning, think about their own lifestyle and start applying some common sense. Might be a bit extreme... watch it for yourself, it's on the Tube.

 

[BigNate]

Thanks for thr Ray Mears recommendation.
I think I'll have to choose carefully to keep it/them interested. I was thinking a basics type what to bring with you and why kind of thing.

 

[PayetteRucker]

Yeah, you're in Northern Idaho, the general populace is going to have some experience/background already. It'd be hard to sit down with an hour and teach people how to build a fire, how to build a shelter, how to manipulate materials, filter water, all of that, so that they'd be able to take something home with them. You may want to fly by CDC guidelines.