Learn essential emergency and survival skills for Scouts and outdoor adventures, including first aid, signalling, getting lost, shelters, emergency planning and calling for help.
Water Collection Water is one of the most important resources to understand when you’re outdoors. Knowing how to find and collect water is an important survival skill — but finding water and making water safe to drink are two different things. A clear-looking stream isn’t automatically safe. A puddle isn’t automatically unsafe. And collecting water…
What Is an Emergency Shelter? A shelter is one of the most useful things you can create when you’re spending time outdoors. It doesn’t necessarily need to be complicated. At its simplest, a shelter is something that helps protect you from the environment. It can reduce exposure to: In an emergency, getting out of the…
Accidents can happen anywhere. You might be camping, hiking, climbing, cycling, playing sport or simply spending time outdoors. Knowing some basic first aid can help you respond calmly and appropriately when someone is injured or becomes unwell. First aid isn’t about trying to become a doctor. It’s about knowing what to do until appropriate help…
When you’re outdoors, the landscape around you can provide a surprising amount of information. Hills, valleys, streams, ridges, woodland edges and other natural features can all help you understand where you are and which way you’re travelling. Learning to read these features is an excellent way to develop your navigation skills. But there is an…
Calling for Help: What to Do in an Emergency Knowing what to do when something goes wrong is one of the most important survival skills you can learn. You might become lost, someone might become injured, weather conditions could deteriorate, or your group could find itself in a situation that it can’t safely manage. In…
