Health and Safety
Trail Life USA is committed to the health, welfare, and safety of our youth, volunteers, staff, and employees. Physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health are integrated into everything we do to ensure as safe a program as possible. The goal should always be to provide challenging, adventurous, and fun activities in a manner that no injuries occur beyond those that are readily treatable by simple first aid.Â
We will follow the rules laid out in the Trailman and Parent's Handbook.
Our troop has several leaders and trailmen who are CPR/AED/First Aide trained.
Our troop health and safety chair Laura Lacey maintains a well stocked troop first aid kit. However all trailmen and leaders should also carry a personal first aid kit with them while camping and hiking.
Our troop follows the Youth Protection Essentials to protect both youth and adults. We provide two deep leadership of Registered Adults in proximity to provide backup and oversight. We will utilize the Buddy System of 3 whenever possible. (Tent camping may require buddy system of 2 based on the size of our troop tents.)