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https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/final-osha-rule-issued-improve-tracking-workplace-injuries-illnesses
Final OSHA Rule Issued to Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and IllnessesCamps will need to adhere to a new Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rule that will impact when and how they file their annual reports with OSHA. Please see below to learn why OSHA...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/contracts-who-needs-them-who-reads-them
Contracts: Who Needs Them? Who Reads Them?Each year, the ACA Insurance Committee holds a Roundtable with many of the camp industry insurers and brokers in conjunction with the American Camp Association National Conference. The 2018...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/integrating-duty-care-your-organizational-camp-culture
Integrating Duty of Care into Your Organizational Camp CultureA child is injured by a falling rock during a climbing lesson. A volunteer is paralyzed when a horse they are leading kicks out. During unstructured time, a camper falls off the top bunk while...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/role-insurance-risk-management
The Role of Insurance in Risk ManagementRisk management plans are never finished. They must be revised periodically because risk, risk control, and risk transfer methods change constantly. Insurance is one of many tools available to risk...
https://www.acacamps.org/events-education/online-learning/recorded-webinar/gen-y-camp-how-understand-manage-increase-resiliency-millennial-camp-staff
Gen-Y At Camp: How to Understand, Manage, and Increase Resiliency in Millennial Camp StaffGen·er·a·tion Y (noun): Generation Y; plural noun: Generation Ys; AKA: Millennials 1. the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s, comprising primarily the children of the baby boomers and...
https://www.acacamps.org/events-education/online-learning/recorded-webinar/supporting-individuals-autism-spectrum-disorder-asd-camp-environment
Supporting Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the Camp EnvironmentCamping and leisure activities are important for all of us, including individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This webinar will begin to identify the benefits of having children with ASD and...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/what-if-it-does-happen-camp-security-%E2%80%93-plans-make-actions-take
What If It Does Happen? Camp Security – Plans to Make and Actions to TakeIn July 2011, Anders Brevik detonated a "car bomb," killing eight people in the Parliament Building in Oslo, Norway. He then proceeded to shoot and kill 69 participants at the Workers Youth League...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/marijuana-revisited
Marijuana RevisitedWe last wrote on the subject of camps and marijuana use in the fall of 2011, following a variety of camp concerns and inquiries to ACA's Hotline.
https://www.acacamps.org/resources/e-cigarettes-juuling-what-all-camps-need-know
E-Cigarettes and "Juuling" — What All Camps Need to KnowKnow and share the facts. Learn about e-cigarettes and "Juuling" and the threats they pose to youth and young adults
https://www.acacamps.org/events-education/online-learning/recorded-webinar/camp-staff-safety-age-metoo
Camp Staff Safety in the Age of #MeTooIt is a story that has been unfolding for over a year: the exposure of often long-standing sexual abuse and harassment of both male and female victims by mostly men in various positions of power....