Developing a vision for the team’s culture is an important early step to setting every person up for success, and to mitigating incidents from happening in the first place.

A Code of Conduct (CoC) is an increasingly common tool to setting expectations early on. It is a living document. Together with regular team check-ins through debriefing, CoCs can help maintain positive, productive team culture.

Collating key emergency site and contact information and leaving it with a ‘trip expert’ who stays in the front country may expedite emergency response if needed.

Together, these early preparations are important best practices for successful field seasons.